in the course of life, I learn to strike the balance between my wants and the wants of others.

 

If I were making the script for my life, how ideal it would be!

On the face of it the statement should make me happy, as if I am in the seventh heaven.

However, is it true...?

If I make all plans for myself and could do things on the dot according to that plan, life will be so insipid, so dry of any thrill

There will be no expectations, no dreams, no sharings..

If there were no winter summer and autumn, spring would lose its identity.

I would get bored even within the first few hours of my life.

Life becomes worth the bother of living onlywhen there are

Happiness and some sadness, love and magnanimity tinged with some slight intolerance, jealousy, some little malice too.

Maybe Gods too came to earth and played their parts on this earth, laughing and crying, embracing and decimating, and forgetting their identity as Gods who controlled and planned everything, because they had started getting bored in their heavenly abodes..

May be Rama and Krishna just came to the earth for that reason alone.

Of course if, in the course of life, I learn to strike the balance between my wants and the wants of others.

If I learn to strike the balance between what I think that would make me happy all by myself, and what I think that would make others too happy even if I may have to reduce the quantity of my own happiness, then alone I can live a life worth living.

Life is not only in living.

Life is also in letting others live.

Moreover, real life is in building strongest bridge between my pleasures, wishes and cravings and similar needs of others.

Animals just live and find pleasure in fighting and getting things that would make them comfortable.

They do not seem to be conscious of the pleasures and pains of others.

I am different as a human being because, I know fairly well about what all things would cause pleasure and pain for me and at the same time I can have a fair knowledge as to what would make others happy or unhappy..

Moreover, I have a choice too. I can find out things that would make others happy, and try to help them get that happiness.

I can use the same knowledge and deny others the happiness

Individual tastes vary, philanthropy and empathy, to cruelty and sadism- It is all there available as our choice.

I can select what I like and then face the music too.