Drop Ego, Be Happy

 

Drop Ego, Be Happy

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace."

Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place."

- Marianne Williamson

Long ago, there lived a sculptor in a village, who used to make very beautiful sculptures. His fame had spread far and wide and people used to come to see the life like statues the sculptor made. The sculptor took great pride in his work. Time came when he became quite old and he started fearing that soon it would be time for him to leave the world.

He made a plan to confuse death (as per old legends, a messenger from death used to come to take souls from earthly bodies). The sculptor made ten statues that looked like him and when the messenger from death came, the sculptor stood still along with the ten statues. The messenger was really confused and could not make out the real person from the eleven statues that stood before him.

Then the messenger got an idea. He said aloud “How beautiful are the statues, but there is an error in them. If the person who created these statues was in front of me, then I could tell him what the mistake is"!

The ego of the sculptor woke up by listening to this, he thought, "I dedicate my whole life to making statues, what can be wrong in my statues". He said, "What kind of error"?

Immediately the messenger caught hold of him and said, "That's the mistake you made”. And the sculptor had no choice but to leave his earthly body and go with the messenger.

What happens when somebody points out your mistakes, or wouldn’t give you the importance as you expect for yourself? We think, you will agree to it that when your expectations are not considered, you will end up in getting your ego up for the situation. You are furious and you are reacting. Moreover, you can notice the pain in yourself too.  You are no longer the mindful person focusing on the present moment!

Can you see an opportunity to consider here?  Just because someone deals with you differently, you are losing your happiness. Just because someone responding to you differently, you start behaving like an immature helpless child – desperate to be heard.

In my experience, sometime back somebody betrayed me by backtracking from an agreed course of action and I lost out. It was not acceptable and caused a lot of pain. The immediate reaction was anger, and I was really furious. My ego was at an all time high, and I was losing out on my happiness and peace of mind. And then I got present to it, and I just dropped my ego by laughing at the situation. And I moved on with life to better opportunities.

Just pause for a moment and think! Why people generally stop buying in to your expectations? You will notice that, they might have different plans. You don’t have to be hurt for it. You work on building your character strong, and have alternate options. At the same time, learn to accept people as they are.

And then in that moment, we say to you to let go. Listen to your heart as you will listen to it when you are with a small baby. You just want to have the baby’s love and happiness. And you can let go of anything whatever it is running in your mind. You know in your heart very well that, you can just laugh at the situation which is making you egoistic, and when you laugh at yourself, you become again mindful. And in such situation, your relationship with the other person doesn’t get destroyed either.

Love, compassion, happiness are amazing feelings, Aren't they? And when you listen to your heart, you just want to receive more of them. Don’t you?

Make your mind to discover who you really are! Be with listening to your heart. And express your joy with the other person you are dealing with. Your genuine love and care touches the other person and life becomes a series of great happy moments.