Acceptance – The Precious Gift

Acceptance – The Precious Gift

(first step towards experimentation)

It’s been a little more than two years, I miraculously escaped an accident and was reborn once again. On that day, within seconds of the time frame, I witnessed the entire movie of my life in front of my eyes, when the truck ran over my left foot.  I have heard many saying that there are always out-of-body experiences, when you approach death. If this was the one, then I too had an “Out-of-Body” experience. But that flash of a nanosecond was so ecstatic, that it led to a different trans-formative journey altogether. This paved the way for me to transition myself into much simpler human being and thus I initiated different experiments with myself

Amidst the crushed foot, rushing to the hospitals and initiating the treatments, in parallel I started introspecting my entire life. At that time I was just 29 years of age, high on professional aspirations, married and going through a very patchy turbulent phase in it. And within seconds I was bed-ridden and unaware of future state of things. I realized that subconsciously I had complicated my own lifestyle. In my quest of living life to the fullest, my expectations from my life and my folks also had increased manifold. Though I had never refrained from fulfilling my near and dear ones desires, but somewhere I failed to differentiate between needs and wants.

Amusingly, these all thoughts erupted within that 2-3 hours while I was switching hospitals, X ray clinics and even I guess operation theatre. And suddenly, I started feeling helpless and I smiled looking above at Almighty and accepted HIS special gift of endurance. I started mocking at myself in jest and with each laughter, it just strengthened me from within. Unknowingly, the first seeds of experimenting with myself, I started roping in. “It’s the smiling Acceptance and not Expectations makes your quest of life complete.” 

Like everyone’s life, I am also cherishing the similar ups and downs, be it professionally or personal front. The same situations were there even before my accident. But one thing made a massive difference, laughing at your own-self and accepting situations, folks and peers as it is. Realization of we alone can’t change the world or the even attitude our own people is very essential. Only one thing that is in our hands is to transform ourselves into a simpler human being, without any complications of desires and expectations.

It’s been two years now, I have strolled my path towards experimenting many things. In this short period, buried my past mirages, recouped completely, embraced single-hood again, relocated for better career aspirations and most importantly feeling blessed of  having contented life. There is a different sense of rejuvenation in my life, even among my peers and dear ones; might be they have started accepting my outlook towards leading blissful life

All great mystique, either in past or present cited one thing in common; life is a sum cumulative of all experiences. Then why not, we embrace the situations as it is, unlearn and learn from it and smilingly cultivate acceptance for leading simpler life. Only with acceptance begins the sense of gratitude, which turns commotion to order and eventually confusion to clarity.

Lead me from the real to the unreal.
Lead me from darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality
Om Peace Peace Peace

- Brhadaranyaka Upanishad