we can learn to accept all the problems and downs that come our way, instead of wasting - spending our energies groaning, blaming the gods, blaming fate, blaming our parents, blaming the world, and looking for scapegoats...........................
If we accept the problems/heartaches/setbacks/pain, that life feels we need to have, the energy we save can be spent looking for the hidden nugget of wisdom, for there is surely a gem tucked away in the heart of every down...
It's not easy - but it's do-able, and the only - only - only reason why we need to do this, is that it is ONLY this way that we will ever feel free in our heart.... . So much of life goes into battling with our downs, so much of our energy goes into smothering our pain and tucking it away in some deep recess or the other of our heart and our being, so much mental strength goes into pushing down our natural selves just because they don't fit in with someone else's image of who we should be, so much effort goes into pretending what we are not so we can be accepted, so much stress and struggle goes into our fears - 'what will happen if I'm not part of this or that or the other,' so much effort goes into protecting ourselves from those who may pain us, how much industry we put into serving ourselves up to the world...
My mother used to whistle - and this was one of her all-time favs - she'd whistle it, sing it, make us join in, and then whistle it again...(she'd picked it up from her brothers who were in the RAF)
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bags and smile, smile, smile
While you've a lucifer to light your fag.
Smile boys that's your style
What's the use of worrying,
It never was worthwhile,
So,
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile
and a line from my fav movie, Rab ne.., 'fikr nu goli maar, yaar.'
Use that effort to get free...and release your heart...