Sunday, January 4, 2009

I can't live without you

A lover deeply in love said to beloved, "Oh, my dear, I can't live without you".
The beloved deeply in love too, replied, "Oh, my dear, I don't want to live without you"

"I can't live without you" and "I don't want to live without you". Two sentences so similar yet so different. Two actions having same result but originating from opposite states of mind. Two expressions flowering from so opposite the emotions.

"I don't want to" owns up responsibility for your emotions. It comes from a state of well-being, state of control, state of ease, state of confidence, state of acceptance of own emotions, state of acceptance of this world. It does not say that I want to be without you but if it so happens that I have to be without you, then I don’t want to live. It does not say that I may not have to be without you. It accepts the enormous possibilities of this world and chooses a own response to one of those possibilities. There is acceptance but there is no helplessness, there is no ego, there is no blame game, there are no conditions put.

The more of our emotions flower from such a state of mind, the better it will be; for ourselves and for the whole world.

1 comment:

Ruminations and Musings said...

I can't live without you म्हणणारी माणसेच generally सगळ्यांना आवडतात.तू म्हणतोस तसे या प्रकारात अहंकार सुखावतो.विचार मांडला आहेस तो बरोबर आहे.

I dont want to live without you.. यात जो acceptance आहे तो येणे फ़ार अवघड.विचारपूर्वक यात स्वीकार केलेला असतो. छान आणि नेटके लिहिले आहेस.

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