Recently, I was talking to a friend about what should be done if the car skids and starts rotating. The answer to that question could also answer some important questions in life. In the driving booklet it is said that take the foot off of the gad paddle and keep on steering the car in the direction of the rotation. Now this is so opposite to what a person would do intuitively. The obvious reaction would be to resist the unwanted motion of the car and try to steer the wheel in direction which impedes that rotational motion. But turns out that doing the exact opposite is the right thing to do.

Now how exactly does this relate to life? Lets assume a similar situation in life. Things are going smooth and steady and suddenly something happens and you realise that things are getting out of control. A person's obvious reaction is to resist the change by steering the wheel against that change which requires more effort and would probabaly end up in a fatal accident. However, the right thing to do would be to stay calm and go with the change. Humans have this tendency of being afraid of change and resisting it. But then why do we resist it. I figure we just want to be with things that we are sure of.

Sometimes we just get stuck with the things which have passed that we fail to see the path ahead. We fail to realize that better things are yet to come. A leaf which is floating in a stream of water without offering any resistance reaches the end of its journey pretty easily and without must strain. On the other hand a leaf which is stuck at some rock or at some other obstruction in stream will probably never reach the end and will definitely suffer a lot as it is trying to stay stationary at its point against the force of the water. In case of human beings, we have to realize that we will come across number of people, number of ideas, number of emotions and numerous other things. But if we get strongly attached to it and refuse to move over it when we have to then ultimately it is going to harm us. I had heard this somewhere "Enjoy everything but in detached manner". It makes so much sense and takes so less effort to do it if we keep practicing it consistently. But as my advisor says, people like things that sound complex and takes more efforts to understand. No-one wants to stick with simplicity and things that are almost always obvious.

Probably, life comes in phases and we have live through each phase. How nicely can we sail through each phase depends on how exclusively we do it and our openness to accept the change which might just make things a little bit more simpler.

ZERO states

Assuming the average life of a person to be 65 there are 31536000 minutes in life. But not all minutes have equal importance. We spend some minutes in dejection, some in fear, some in agony, some in elation, some in confusion and some in similar other human emotions. In other words most of the times we are either positive or negative. But, what we miss out on is the state where we are neither positive nor negative. This article is about those rare moments in life of a human or, more appropriately, its about the moments where we can identify ourselves as humans and not just biologically. It is about us feeling closer to an entity within us which we rarely relate to.

We like to keep swinging like a pendulum but i think what we miss out on is that equilibrium state. Its like some pulley or a car where all the external forces on us are equally balanced. Its about those states when inner strength manifests in your action and words. Its about an instant when a boy realizes that he has turned into a man. Its about those states when you know that this is it. Its about the states when you connect with "Yourself"

We often don't realise that except of our heart and mind there is one more voice coming from within. That voice is the one which is "yours". The instances in life when you know what is your inner voice saying, the instances when you distinguish all three of them are the instances that matter. Those are the instances when life takes those crucial turns. We feel that immense strength and courage within us when we do what inner-self is saying. All the external factors like money, religion, culture, traditions, friends, family don't seem to be very important. It is the state when you realise that we need not look for happiness outside it is coming from within. There are points in life when you don't care about the result but realise that the journey or the path to the result is more important and those are the times when we connect to ourselves. Neither our emotions nor our mind guides us but everything which was vague and fuzzy starts to make sense and becomes clear.

Such instances in life make us realise that the brain they refer to is probably not just the picture that we see in biology textbooks but it is probably more than that. It is an entity which is able to identify such moments. This article is celebration of those instances when we actually act as humans, when we are not chasing after our never-ending wants but are are calm, content and composed. This article marks the importance of those moments of peace when we don't think don't react but are quiet and in unison with "ourselves". This is about realising that a number line is composed of three different areas : negative numbers, positive numbers and a ZERO. The important is not being positive but being at zero. This article is dedicated to all those moments where we identify ourselves as humans and not just biologically. It is about us feeling closer to an entity within us which we rarely relate to