Sometimes we feel that our world has suddenly become dark because of the reversals that come in our life without any fault of ours. Naturally whenever we find our place where there is dim light we try to open our eyes wider in order to find out our way. But suppose instead of opening our eyes wider if we try to close our eyes tightly we will likely perform self destruction.
when we become better we sometimes commit such self-destruction internally. Whenever we let such situations make our life bitter, our mind starts haunting over one question “why is this happening to me?”
Sometimes we may not be able to find any answer that makes sense because we are finite beings living in a complex world. If we let the above question play continuously in our mind, bitterness takes over our entire mental space.
Such bitterness and irritation makes us blind, to the options we still have among those reversals. Bhagavad Gita (18.35) disapproves self disrupting thought patterns as formally ignorant.
How can we open our eyes wider, when our world goes dark?
We can open our eyes wider by changing our question from “why is this happening to me?” to “Since now this is already happened, how can I make things better?.
How can we make things better amid reversals?
Whenever we continuously repeat the question: how can I make things better?, we will gradually find a small things we can do to make things better during difficult times.
How can we make ourselves better during difficult times?
Whenever reversals or difficult situations makes our world dark, bitterness closes our eyes . However, if we strive to open our eyes wider by looking for the ways to make things better, we will at least make ourselves better.
Additionally Bhagavad Gita assures us , we can always pursue something meaningful with everything that happens in our lives. In some situations, it might take some time to confront that what that purpose might be? and how can we pursue that purpose?, but for sure it will reveal itself, if we just keep doing what we can.
If we keep striving with this mantra, we will Discover such layers of resilience we never thought we had, thereby making us better in facing life’s challenges.