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To wish or not to wish

Preface: Everyone in the whole world is wishing for something or the other. Someone is wishing for a job, another for a new job, yet another for a promotion or a raise in her job. Many are wishing for love, respect, position of authority, easy money or topping the college in exams. One person wants a dog; other hates dogs and wishes that all the dogs in his locality were just taken away. He wants his daughter to get married soon; she wants to see the face of her grand-child before she dies; he wants a car better than his neighbors’. Some are also wishing to find God… so if there is anything in the world that is overflowing with abundance is ‘wishes’… Gautam had been reflecting upon the phenomenon of 'wishes' or wishing, in life. Why do people have so many wishes? And why do they spend so much of their precious time and mental energy pursuing them? Why in the first place do they believe that whatever they wish is going to be good for them? Are these people 'all knowing' that they know, that all they believe in is perfect for them and everyone else? Are they equal to God in brain power or in future predictions? Because Gautam believes that He is the only person who has the privilege to be 'Mr. Right' or 'Mr. Know All', always.

For example Gautam says if he wishes that he had one billion dollars in his bank account, which will settle all his setbacks in life and then he will able to lead a perfectly so called 'happy' life. He is mistaken, because he is short sighted on this count. He has no idea how many million problems will tag along with that one billion dollar! And he will not even have enough time regretting about it.

If he has just fought with so many people and wishes that they all died. He will be the first person who will come under scrutiny. We don’t know what to wish for. I am not equipped to make future changes in my life, as I don’t know how those changes will affect rest of my life and other's in my life. Again if Gautam is able to force a minutest change in his life today, it is going make a world of a difference in entire future course of his life and everything and everyone connected with him. We have to realize everything depends upon everything thing else. Everything affects everything else. Nothing in the universe stands totally alone, without being affected or affecting changes to its immediate atmosphere or even to far off planets. Hemoglobin or the iron in our blood steam is in our blood stream not because we take iron supplements or eat stuff that gives us iron. It comes from supernova explosions hundreds of light years away! So, wishing that supernova should not occur because I am scared is the most unintelligent wish to make.

Finally if one avoids excess mental occupation with wishes, it will add to your peace of mind. Wishes will never come true unless of course just by chance you wished the same that was supposed to happen. One will always be at an emotionally disturbed state if the life was not going as you wished for, which is a very bad idea if you want to lead a good life.

So stop wishing for good things in life and start leading a good life without any 'wishes'.