The Smaller things in Life

The Smaller things in Life

Subtle shifts in our perception of life can make a drastic transformation to the morale of each individual. Often we get dejected going around bigger things and complicated kinds of stuff, which has a chance of achievement as if winning a lottery. The depressed mind tides until we get drained off and have lost all the charms of life with a constant fear of death coming nearby. It is what we have lived? Such a question can come up only at the horizon of old age when we have little time to recuperate the things past and lost.     

I reached my forties, and the one thing that still bothers me while in conversation with an opposite-gender is eye-to-eye contacting. Thinking of it is a minute element in life and why I need to worry at this moment of life. As I recently developed the habit of observing smaller things in life, such things count very much. So I started making myself conscious at every moment I have to intermingle with the opposite gender. I used to look down, jot down something, check the time at my wrist, and start to scroll my smartphone. These gestures habitually appear inside my brain as if escaping from an awful moment.

Have you ever thought of this dilemma, a psychological disorder which, when corrected, can elevate your confidence considerably? ‘Eyes are a reflection of the soul’ is apt to quote to this context. Many meanings can infer each look of a person. You are looking at the eyes aids to read their mind. The living moment is more divine than the past and the future. These simple techniques can help to attain the divinity of the moment. The motive is hidden in us but needs to expose hidden by the persona.    

Lots of small things are forgotten or unexploited over the passage of life. We often go out begging in the streets searching these treasures. When we look inward in our home, we don’t call it asking. We can be an emperor at our house, unlike our search on the streets. One of the famous Indian text ‘’Vigyan Vaibhav Tantra’’ explores deeply the fulfillment of life attained from the smaller things in life. Ayurveda, a branch of a traditional medicinal system in India, envisages the life expectancy to the total number of breaths. However, there is another version of this. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we intake but the moments that take our breath away. Withered by the usual routines, a small shift in the focus can make us reroute from the general stress, frustration, and indulgence in negative emotions. Ecstasy comes in sips, not gulps is a better saying in this context. 

Buddha attained enlightenment by realizing the gap between two breaths. The question can naturally occur to anyone: ‘’How can someone attain enlightenment by practicing such a simple thing?’’ The only difference between the doubtful mind and Budha that he only could realize the gap between two breaths. This distance is so vast and seems infinite same as the distance between a beggar and an emperor, which is infinite. But to remain as a beggar is within us as the treasure is already hidden inside us.

Life, as such, is an utter paradox. We sometimes feel to travel far to find peace. It is connected with our ego, and we feel accomplished if something we achieve is difficult, as there will be challenges to this achievement. Once we overcome these challenges, we feel fulfilled. Our ego is never attracted to anything, which is simple – never. If something is simple, there is no appeal, and even if you can conquer it, there will be no fulfillment of the ego. It always asks for hurdles to be crossed, some peaks to be conquered. And the more difficult the summit, the more ease your ego will feel.

Human inner mechanism is a very delicate thing, and straightforward acts done by the human body such as sneezing looks so simple, but they are the complex and non-voluntary thing. Something has been released through a sneeze, a kind of energy like flash lightening. It’s not just your nose is involved in the sneezing process; the whole body becomes concentrated, and every fiber, every cell of the body, is included in this releasing process. Next time you sneeze, be alert to it, and the sneeze may not happen. But once the arrow has gone, it cannot be changed. Something thrown out from the nose makes you feel relieved the same as something is thrown out from the sex organ.     

How can a more significant leap be possible being behind smaller things? Such a concept is irrational and unscientific. Science has proved that the lower the particle, the atomic, the more explosive and more significant the effect. The very smallest particles blew up two big cities in Japan – Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. More than two hundred thousand people were wiped out of existence within seconds. And the energy behind that colossal explosion was an atom. Size in gross is necessarily not a significant power. An enormous mountain is more prominent because they have such a big body. But the hill is just impotent before an atomic explosion. Atoms can wipe out the whole mountains as such. The smaller the unit and the intensity it is filled with power is more.

 The theory of relativity is a small formula using some words and numbers. And with these words and names and those who can understand and use these words can destroy the whole earth. The method is minimal, but the impact it can carry is enormous, and one of the most profound things.  

Everyone has to die on a particular day – it is fixed. Persons around at the time of death is also fixed. All our ego is going to be dead on that day, and we will be thinking nothing. We will have attained absolute freedom. The complex paths we followed to achieve such peaks for merely satisfying our ego will all become absurd at that moment. It looks like everything is fixed, and we are just trying to enact it. We are not asked to live but asked to adopt. This realization at a particular point, if sincerely got, will help for a better perception towards life.   

   Life is in the smaller things that make everyone happy. Open your eyes and watch out for the more minor things to its details and its inherent beauty. It’s everywhere – within us and surrounding us. Extract and enjoy it.