#CoronaChronicles:- Drowning

Our wishful thinking wants the virus problem to end immediately and life to go back to normal instantly. The reality is something totally the opposite.

A little boy was sitting on the beach. Every evening he would watch the horizon and see the sun go down. He decided one evening he would catch the sun at sunset. He started building a boat. Slowly over time, his boat was getting ready to sail. He became restless and greedy and hopped onto an unfinished boat and began to sail. The boat could not manage the strong waves and it drowned taking down the boy with him. Obviously catching the sun was an unrealistic dream.

The most important life lesson my husband ever taught me was to understand the gap that exists between wishful thinking and reality. A gap that can’t be bridged and yet all humans make futile attempts innumerable times to bridge that gap. In each person’s life there are certain wishes or desires he or she may possess which can’t be materialized in actual real life. The reasons may be several and vary for each person. Sometimes it would be because of your own personal reasons and sometimes external factors. Whatever the reason may be But there would always exist this huge divide between what can actually happen and what we may wish to happen.

If you keep on holding on to fantasy dreams without realizing and accepting your life’s reality more than often you will drown. You will be always lost, dissatisfied and disappointed with your scenarios. We keep on denying our reality and living in fictional fantasy worlds. This lack of acceptance is the cause of most of the grief we face in our life and almost all of it is just self-created. The gap between this wishful thinking and reality is the biggest gap existent. A gap that can’t be bridged. An ocean you cannot cross. A sun you can’t catch. These chases are like wild goose hunts where you will always return empty-handed. And not just in your life but in each individual’s life who walks the planet there will exist these gaps which can’t be bridged

The only way is to accept the realities of your life and To not have unrealistic expectations from life. Everything everyone ever imagines for themselves or desires to have can’t happen in the real world. We all wish great things for our children and ourselves. But all those wishes do not come true. Do not be in this vicious circle of wishful thinking and disappointment and instead learn to accept the realities of your life and face them bravely and happily and this is the mantra for achieving peace and calm.

Stay Home. Stay Safe. Stay Put.
#DontBeADumbPigeon
Dr. Riccha Sarin