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.