Between being happy and being
secure, choose being happy. Because security is
fake and guarantees nothing except consoling you that you are safe, despite the
fact that you are not.
You are as safe as you are in this moment. You
will never be able to tell, ever, what will happen to you, of you, in the next
moment. You, like many, will be rushing this morning to work at a job that you
loathe, yet you cling on to it because of a fake sense of security your pay
check guarantees you. You think you are secure if you have money, if you have a
social standing, if you have a well-heeled job and if you have a house to call
your own. Security comes from comforting yourself with how much you have.
Happiness comes from being content with whatever you have.
The problem with seeking too much security
is that what you try to possess will eventually end up possessing you. If you
have a million dollars in the bank and have lost your job, invariably every
thought of yours will concern your depleting the bank balance with every delay
that your job search encounters. Clearly, the bank balance is possessing you
now. On the other hand, if you want to be happy, all you need to do is to
consider yourself lucky that you have a bank balance to live off in the time that
you search for a job.
On a spiritual plane, it is also really
foolish on our part that we should feel insecure. Because from the time you
were born, you have lived each moment without knowing what will happen in the
next. Which means you are an expert at dealing with the unknown, with
insecurity. Yet, you fear it all the time? Life is a bungee jump into the
unknown in each new moment. And all of us have been doing it effectively,
efficiently all these years of our lives. So, a sense of security is a wasted
sentiment. You don’t need it to live. You can live with insecurity, as you
always have. Happiness however is crucial to live Life fully! If you have felt
an emptiness, an incompleteness in you, it is not because you are insecure, but
because you are not happy!
Happiness is an opportunity that
each moment is pregnant with. To be happy, you have to make a choice of letting
go of the need to be secure. You will then be soaked in happiness!
The absolute reality of life. Knowing it is one thing; living it is a completely different thing.
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