A couple of unanswered questions

A couple of unanswered questions 

This is a story of a man who fettered and jostled with troubles, losses and roamed around the world to find answers to some open questions like why life happens, why is it we get hard times, why few people get lucky and others suffer and many more like those. His questions were simple and many had spoken on them including vedas and religious books but each of them had their own theory. He was confused which answer should he choose because every answer fitted to a particular situation and none seem to work every time. One fine day, he was in the process of seeking answers. He was discussing his thoughts with an old man, who listened to him and then replied - ''Son, the best way to know all the answers is to know the answer to one question - what are life's most priceless possessions and the way to know this is to stop seeking an answer and start living and one fine day you will get all your answers". The man was quite mesmerized by the idea and decided to give it a try but he had a few questions. He said to the old man - "Sir, but what if I end up living and never find an answer", to which the old man smiled and said "Maybe yes, but then you shouldn't have had to find it in first place, but this is very unlikely". So as the old man suggested, the man went back and started living his life again. This time he considered he was given a second chance and made best efforts to do to whatever he can and avoid troubles and make his life better. He had a tough time realizing the fact that it wasn't easy the second time and he had to try more to achieve the balance, there were losses but then there were profits as well and things had to be balanced. At times of loss he would have to substitute what he had at times of win and at times of win he would have to think if he has had sufficient to substitute if there was a loss in future. Gradually his business began to stabilize and things sort of balanced out. There were losses, there were gains but it seemed he had understood how to deal with them. They were not unexpectedly too high or too low and seemed to have settled out to a level which promised gradual growth. One fine day, the man was able to get the answer to his question. At first he had lost faith in people, when he was winning all were by his side but when he was losing very few were walking with him. He started loosing trust in people, and going forward, it became difficult for him to understand whom to trust and whom not to. Because of all this he went through a tough time, his health diminished. When he started the second time, he took caution as to whom he should have faith on, his previous failures were his source of teaching all the time. He took care of maintaining his health. Since a considerable time was lost already, he took care not to waste his time on things which were trivial or did not matter. He focussed on building trust, staying healthy and managing time effectively. At times when he used to find himself strayed out he subsided and called upon his close friends or relatives to serve as a source of strength and synergy. He knew now what were life's priceless possessions - time, trust and health. Life was a journey which perfected him in how to balance them to have a stablized path which gradually lead to his upliftment. The desire to live was the binding factor which kept his mind focussed in the direction of attaining this balance, but the most important thing was that on an average all the things held equal importance. Although in the journey some carried more and some less of a focus at a particular point of time. During the journey, things were simplified once he had formulated a certain set of principles which were outputs or results based on his experiences. This set of principles were more or less governed and guided by a super set of rules as stated in various vedas and religious books. They always served as guidlines on whatever best he could do to maintain the balance but never were the final words. In other words, it was him who decided what would be the best decision based on the situation. His subconscious all the time connected with what was known as the feedback process, through which he was connected with others on an overall basis. This synergy served to alter the overall behaviour of the people known and near him and formed a subset of a kind of ecosystem which resonated back to the universe. Well, this was ever-changing, and the change was based on how all the people were connected and using it. Gradually, that was the point where he now knew that he was not alone and was a part of something much bigger, he had to work on purpose to make things better and streamlined because whatever he does/act upon would come back to him at a later point of time. This would also be carried forth to other people connected or not connected to him. In short, he understood that although life's most priceless-less possessions were somehow the most important possessions not only to him but to the human existence. Well, this was something new which he discovered. He remembered the old man and what he said, and was contented that he got all his answers.

 -- By Max Mohan.