Must you Plan?

With structure there is predictability, 

With predictability, there is certainty...

But structures break, 

Just the way they are made. 

And like water trapped in a dam,

Everything flows. 

It must! Reluctantly or gracefully.

Calmly, or forcefully. 

But it must mold as per the needs of circumstances. 

Plans, Plans, Plans. I have a plan for this.I have a plan for that. I have a plan for everything. But sometimes, my plans fail. And with age, I've learned that everything cannot be planned. And that there is a rhythm to life that needs to be heard. If plans are inconsistent with the rhythm - they often fail. Hear that rhythm! It has volumes to tell you. Hear it out and trust it.

In this materialistic world, we sometimes aim to achieve things that aren't meant for us. We strive to live a life not meant for us. We push, and we push a little harder until everything is in place and there is a flow... But the minute we stop pushing, things fall... apart. All the plans you've ever made crumble. All the dreams you've ever had are not at all desirable anymore. It's seems like a halt. A painful one.

In reality, it's a start to something new. It's a wake-up call. "Hey! I'm life. Listen to me... this is what you think you wanted and needed. Turns out, you ain't too happy. Just flow with me and I'll show you what you really want and need - your true happiness" and when that call comes... follow it. Be accepting towards it. Embrace it... for if you don't, it will drag you anyways. The more resistant you are, the harder it will be to feel the happiness hitting you on your face. The welcoming you are, the more overwhelmed you will be with happiness. Each day is to look forward to, rather than dread.

If you already have a life where you are living from the heart, I'm glad you know your life's rhythm. And if you are living a life you dread, I hope you hear the wake-up call - and make the changes you need. Listen to that rhythm - it's screaming to be heard.

Plans are great tools, but they are just tools. They help you to guide your life, not to dictate how things should go. Leave some loopholes in them, and let time fill them. Because when the time is right, things arrive and circumstances arise - some good, some bad - and they will change you and your life for better or worse. That depends on how you choose to view it. With synchrodestiny working, there are things bound to happen and sometimes we stop them by intensive planning - so then, they just barge in to our lives and destroy the plans. Eventually, we just work our way through them. And if we must do that anyways, why don't we just let them in and cherish the changes?

Moderation

Taken by extremes,

I forget moderation.

I get carried away like a drop, a drop - in the ocean.

At times, I'm part of that tsunami,

Whether I like it or not.

And at other times, I'm part of the quiet waters.

Each circumstance is a reflection of me;

And yet it's not!

If I remember the key,

The doors will always be open

The circumstances shall never be my reflection again;

But instead I shall be theirs!

And all that's ever needed is... moderation

For there is nothing greater nor lesser than it. 

Desire the Prohibited?

Desire, Desire

Burn like ire...

Nobody wants you

Nobody needs you

You are nothing but,

Sadness disguised as happiness 

short-lived gain through bitter struggle

With the fall of discipline, 

you nurture a sufferer...

Letting go of you is to extinguish you 

or else... we too, burn like fire. 

Have you ever had that inexplicable desire for something you know will do you no good? I know I have. That one thing know you can't get, is that one thing you really want - it's not because you actually desire it, but because you know its not for you. It has been refused to you. That very thing causes the most amount of disturbance because you are not upset that you don't have it, but instead that it has been prohibited. 

In the Buddhist way of life desires are seen as greed - one of the seven sins. But how I see it, is that correct desires fuel you and unworthy desires break you. Why? Well if you don't have the desire to be enlightened - chances are you aren't going to work towards it. But if you desire wealth, you're never going to get enough and automatically that takes a physical toll and breaks you. 

Each desire is different and can be categorized, yet they have similar characteristics. But the desires I write about today are the unworthy ones. With life bringing us to different paths, roads and streets we often are faced with luring attractions. Attractions that distract you, misguide you and intend to destroy you - and yet they are gifts. How? Well it's quite simple actually. Each desire that you are faced with is a test, a test of your self-control; your discipline and your lessons. If you have learnt your lesson - you temptations will be less if not non-existent towards the attraction. If you are disciplined, you disregard the temptation itself, by letting it go. If you have self-control, it will help you stick to your grounds. 

And what if you haven't got any self-control, discipline, or lessons learnt? Well then, this is your opportunity. Some times we have to lose it in order to find it again, but better this time around. With a thing refused to you, you can either break the rules and go get it anyways - that's quite the rebel way, but it will teach you the lessons you need to learn (but that doesn't mean you should do it just to learn the lessons. If you consciously acknowledge the lessons that need to be learned - you'll learn them anyways. But generally people who are impulsive and unmindful of their actions, use this method as their last resort) or you can be convincing and achieve it. 

Either ways, you'll have something that you know is no good for you and you'll have a bunch of lessons waiting for you. And chances are when you get the thing you desired the most because it was prohibited, will lose it's charm once you've had it long enough. The effect will wear off, be it an object, a drug or a human. If you don't desire something for the right reasons, the tendency of it to ruin you increases ten-folds.  If you can avoid it, you have probably learned your lessons. But if you can't, that's what they are there for and you won't realize it until they've broken you down to an extent where going up is the only way out. You re-build yourself with the awakening that was brought about through that experience. And the awakening is the push that everyone has, at least once in a lifetime and it helps you become who you were meant to be. 

So if you are struggling with desiring the prohibited, just stop. Stop, and think, think about the reasons you desire it. If your reasons are beneficial, the universe will conspire to help you get it. And if your reasons are secondary... you know it will lose it's charm once you have it.

I encourage you to think about those desires that can potentially break you and eventually make you. Can you learn the lessons by acknowledgment or must you learn them the hard way?