Trying to understand others.

I know there is a better side to us than this:

I wish Life was simple and easy .

We plan and re-plan. We build, destroy and rebuild. We fall in Love and out of Love. We make and break relationships. We value life and destroy it at the same time. And we move on.

We think we have taken two steps forwards only to realise we are landed one step back wards. We live in hope and prepare for the worst. One moment we are as good as gold and the next we are non entity.

We live a contrived make believe existence. We convince our self and find protection and comfort in the thoughts and believes that are self defeating and consuming .Knowing well enough of the risks involved we create barriers and difficulties for ourself and feel distressed to find that we cannot over come these… These actions set us back not only for days but months years and life time..

We believe in what we think we are totally unaware of what we really are. We hide behind mask of falsehood and think nothing of it.. We blinker our minds and do not want to face the reality of the genuine us which is very ugly and painful.. We live in fantasy. We treat the world as a stage and perform our parts till the curtain comes down…

We are complex creatures.

It is extremely hard to understand our self. Try as we may we find that there are dimensions to us that only surface in moments of extreme distress, despair or euphoria and ecstasy. We are taken by surprise . We pretend and do not want to recognise our self.

We want to be and act the part of anything and everything else but our self. We are always on a move . We are constantly in search and pursuit of something else other than our self. We are in chase of the mirage ,misguided as we are,that we think is  real. We dream of being something other than us….We are never content with self or environment.

We are driven by greed that takes us further and further away from contentment.

We are strangers to ourself.! We do not recognise or understand ourself.!.

When we fail to understand ourself how do we expect to understand others?

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  • payge on Mar 10, 2009

    Wow,alot was said in that particular piece.but all to true as I really hate to admit.You are correct,How can we be true to others or understand them if we cant stay true to who we really are?We are complex creatures,you are right about that.A interesting article to read.

  • James Chapman on Mar 10, 2009

    Hi Nadir,

    An interesting well written article.

    But don’t lose faith in humanity, we may be frail and tempted sometimes, but that is because we are unsure of our overall purpose and are continually searching for it.

  • Radhika on Mar 10, 2009

    Hi Nadir,

    Its a well composed write up……

  • Alicia Wind on Mar 12, 2009

    Admirable…..wow! great analogy for life!

  • lh on Mar 12, 2009

    good pay attn to the diamond ring quick
    lh

  • Hazel Crowther on Mar 16, 2009

    Thought provoking writing, well done.

  • STEVE666 on Mar 16, 2009

    You’ve captured our failings perfectly. Well written.

  • Viper13 on Mar 17, 2009

    very well written article about the human nature.
    keep up the good work.

  • Leonardo da Vinci E. on Aug 23, 2009

    Yes, but the progress we build in the world comes from our ability to dream.

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