Who you are today is essential to the realization of your life's purpose - Dustin Wax
Stole from a friends SM's: The size of the forest fire often has little to do with the spark that started it and lots to do with the state of the forest. This again I found on http://business.twoday.net/static/foehrenbergkreis/files/20070216HBR_Accidental.pdf which is a nice two page article to read(Accidental Influentials - Harvard Business Review).
You never know where you will end up learning something so important and surprising, that it zaps you. I guess one should always keep ones options open. Its been a long time since I wrote anything, feels like words would burst out and lay themselves on their own. But random thoughts rarely make sense to anyone except to whom they occur so might as well spare you the agony and pain.
One of the things to come to terms with, in life, is to deal with separation. To manage attachments. However much one might try and be objective and know the eternal truth's, unless you have given up everything voluntarily, theres no making peace with the pain. I guess thats why Siddharta had to do it to become Gautam Buddha. I sometimes envy the westerners, with their independence comes the ability to manage attachments more effectively. Though I am pretty sure they have to give up on some other niceties in life on the same account as well.
Change is another thing which is hard to deal with, possibly on the same account. Attachment to the existing realities., better known as comfort zones.
Things are going to happen anyways and life isn't asking if you want to learn. The only question is if you want to learn it the easy or the hard way. And who knows in that learning may lie the purpose of a particular life itself?
