Are you sick of unexpected events that frequently occur in your life?
Our happiness completely depends on the execution and results of what we’ve planned. But even a slightest change equals to frowning. There are very few people who are tolerant to whatever life throws in their face. Some call it positivity, maturity, learning and so on. But the quest is how to are people inspired to be tolerant?
Here are a three neglected but inspiring example of tolerance.
1. Neglected Mother Earth
The whole human race is continuously harassing this earth through the exploitation of human resources and misuse of technology. According to an organization for petroleum consuming country, we have only 1.5 trillion barrels of oil left in the world (53.3 years of oil), 7 million hectares of forest are lost annually, 2.12 billion of tons of waste is thrown in our earth’s surface every year.
Yet, amazingly mother earth has never stopped giving things we needed. What we can learn from her is that her servitude, she never forgets her duty. Despite whatever life throws at us, we can always continue with our duty, that is how we become stronger.
2. Tolerant Tree
If we observe the activity of a tree, it’s always busy giving. In the midst of scorching heat in summer it provides shelter of coolness, it’s giving fruit and flowers, medicine, shelter to birds and animals, protection from natural calamities, furniture, paper and oxygen to breathe.
The quality of giving enriches the importance, if we see in the world today 90% of earth’s problem will be solved if we grow more of them.
Moreover, trees are always neutral to all kinds of changes that go around. The heavy rain falls, heat, freezing cold, nothing stops the unstoppable tree from helping people like us, who may have just neglected seeing them like bare wood.
So, if we focus on our duty more and less on the obstacles, then being neutral in any situation cannot be your problem.
3. Manifold Service of Wind
Wind uses its energy to provide mechanical power through wind turbines. It is also medium for rainfall. It uses its quality to serve according to the demand. If we can also understand and utilize any skills or talent we have according to the need, we can provide the best service to anyone.
Wind even carries many fragrances and pungent smell, depending on the place it visits yet, it itself remains neutral and unaffected.
Similarly, our life throws many good and bad moments to us, but if we can be neutral like a wind without being affected, we can easily achieve our goal. And we’re matured and focused without an effort.
Our emotion twists and turns according to the events we go through in our life. We smile like “forever” but end up crying in seconds. We get carried away by various situations that occur in our life, hence we get stuck to one incident and stop our duty. Yet, nature has been simply projecting us, teaching us how to be neutral and the benefit we get from it.
Being neutral makes us stronger, mature, tolerant, focused and cool headed. And to be neutral we just need to focus our duty and execute it continuously, no matter what life brings up.
Meditating on the qualities of mother earth, wind and tree will help us tackle with our life situations. What do you think can me more other qualities nature is exhibiting for us to learn and experiment?