Thoughts

This is my first blog and I am not sure on what to write. But I decided to pen down my thoughts here – not for the sake of people to read and applaud, but for me to reflect on these at a later point. So here I go…

There is a sense of apprehension for everything. A sense of “will this go wrong”, “what if this does happen..”, “what if I do not get what I want…” blah blah blah. Why am I so focussed on “what-would-go-wrong” instead of “what-can-go-right” ? I think it is the conditioning. As a child I was taught to look at how to prevent situations, how not to spill food, how not to be rude, etc etc. The focus was always on “how-not-to” ! This has now developed into a habit …a samskara, if I may call it. This habit has done a “frankenstein” and has been eating me up.

So is it so simple to replace these with the positive thoughts ? I do not know yet. But I think the situation is like that of a child that cries when its hand gets stuck in the bottle after it has tried to get hold of some candy. The child has to just let go…