Insecure?
Fearful? Just let it be.
There will be times
in Life, when you feel insecure. When you will not have any idea what is going
to happen. When fear will grip you. At all such times, sleep over the fear.
Allow the insecurity to prevail. When you do this, you will discover Life to be
magical. To be beautiful. Over time, you will conquer the fear and your sense
of insecurity and turmoil will be replaced by a sacred inner peace.
Fear and insecurity
are an integral part of Life. They take over whenever you seek predictability
in Life. What is the predictability that you seek? That you should have money,
that you should be able to provide for your family, that nothing should happen
to any of your loved ones, that all your wants must be taken care of? But do
you even realize that the predictability you desperately seek is impossible to
achieve – money is impermanent, Life is impermanent and your wants are the
cause of all your suffering? In fact, nothing is permanent. Everything is
perishable. Even you or I have an expiry date – except that we don’t know what that
date is! So, to feel fearful and insecure about an impermanent Life, or its
various facets, is a totally unintelligent response.
The reason why you
feel insecure in the first place is because of what you have been told. You
have all along, from the time you could make sense of this world through your
school years and through those in college, through your early adulthood and
employment, been reminded to focus on everything impermanent – and to cling on
to it. So much so that now, insecurity is a habit. It comes “naturally” to you.
Which is why when you don’t have what you want you feel insecure. When you
don’t have money it worries you. When you don’t have a companion in Life you
feel lonely and fearful of the future. When you don’t have a job you feel
scared and lost.
I met someone the
other day who is exactly in the same situation in Life – not much money, no job
and who had just been through a messy divorce. “I feel so insecure. I don’t
know what will happen,” he lamented.
Surely, you have felt
this way too at some point in Life. Just as the way I too have. The question
here, as you will realize when you have a deeper understanding of Life, is not
not knowing what will happen. The question is why do you need to know what will
happen? The final answer to what will happen is that some day you will die –
your Life will come to an end. How does it matter what happens in the interim
if the ultimate end is well known and inescapable? Not knowing what will happen
in the interim is not at all a problem. But because you conveniently ignore the
impermanence of Life, you believe you must have predictability in it. The truth
is that the interim period between birth and death is as inescapable a reality
as the end itself is. So, the way to deal with your fear and insecurity is to
face them as a fact of Life. Remember that they are the weaves that make up the
tapestry of Life.
Try living with this
awakening. Understand, accept and celebrate the impermanence of Life. Live each
moment as if it is your last one. Then fear and insecurity will not cripple
you. They will then, in fact, aid and abet your Life’s adventure. Life’s a
bungee jump – minus the harness – really. Not knowing if you will survive the
next moment or not is part of the excitement. It’s what keeps the game charged.
It’s what keeps you alive. Those who embrace the uncertainty actually live, while those who prefer
predictability merely exist!
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