Well I am talking about travelling light in this life. About carrying the baggage of bias, prejudices, hurt and bitterness . My continuous effort has been to shed this baggage off. This baggage becomes so heavy that during the journey of life instead of enjoying the surroundings and the trip, we tend to be bogged down by the its weight only. We keep on trying to balance this weight and miss out on the beautiful moments that pass us by.
To quote Richard Bach – “Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
So when I am the one who had made a conscious choice to allow each and every experience in my life, how can I be bitter to anyone else? How can I nurture hurt or resentment against somebody else? If I accept each and every choice I had made – right or wrong and take total responsibility of it – I don’t need to blame anyone else for being bad or mean to me. Am I not the one who sought that person to teach me that experience?
Long ago I read somewhere – that if you carry hard feelings for somebody you start creating ‘karmic debt” cycle. Not only you commit your own self into repaying the debt , but also that person. How foolish is that of me. I know if a person/event has hurt me , do I want to be associated with him in next lifetime again? Just to get the thrill of watching him pay the debt???? Isn’t that weird? Well If you think like me, I won’t like to get involved in that person/event again now or ever!!!!!!!!! So what is the way out? Stop this karmic cycle right now. Just forgive that person and banish all hard feelings. Believe me , it is really that easy. If you say to yourself and believe that whatever the person did to you was because you allowed it – it becomes so easy. Just take responsibility of all the choices you made in life.
I am not preaching what I read in some book, but what I have experienced. I have come to stage in life where when I look back, I don’t see any pain. What I see is bundle of experiences – both good and bad – which helped me becoming the person I am right now. And I thank each and every person for teaching me those valuable lessons. Only through carelessness of somebody, I learnt how to be careful with the important things in life, only with failed relationships I learnt to treasure the relationships, only through rudeness I learnt how to be polite with everyone, only through injustice I learnt to be just………………..
These are not shallow words. I live by them. I really feel so light and if somebody asks me about any bitter experience in life — I simply say I don’t remember. And its truth, I look back and don’t see any bitterness.
Reflections 