Mattering!

I want the world to be better because I was here.

                                             -Will Smith.

   

These words quickly etched themselves in my cranium as soon as they came in front of my eyes. And it triggered into me a different perspective of combating the fear of the inevitable oblivion. Your attempt to make this world a better place to live will buy you more years of remembrance than to be indifferent towards the world or to try and make it bad for others!


As Rumi used to say "You are not a drop in the ocean but an entire ocean in a drop". I believe in that doctrine because a need to change for adaptation always arises and I am reluctant to let go of things and change. But if I think of myself not as a drop in the ocean but being an ocean, in a drop, that I am similar in every aspect to my fellows as any drop of water in an ocean is to other drops of water, I percieve myself as the unchangeable! Water manifests in different forms : Sometimes it is in the form of a placid lake, sometimes as a turbulent tsunami; Sometimes it shows up as the quiet pond whereas at some other times, it is in the form of a deafening flood! All that changes is the form but the essence i.e. the water is the same.


Similarly, I, the true self, is permanent and unchangeable; my demeanor may change pertaining to the situation just as the form of a water-body but when viewed from an elevated level, I am everything in the world at all the times! It seems staggering to transcend this fabric of time and space from such a spiritual perspective but once identified with, nothing perturbs me! Oblivion will be the least of my concerns because as I said in the previous statement, I would have already transcended space and time!





So, decide "What I want to do" and then it's just certain to happen! All my fears: shame, embarrasment, humiliation, oblivion would all be forgotten if this philosophy of Rumi is adopted!