What does it really mean to surrender? To let go and let God as its said? Do we ever let it be? and go with the flow?
Yes too many questions to ponder over.
The other day was watching, The Shawshank Redemption, yet again. And it is this scene from the film that does in a way validate the point I am trying to make. It is when we give up the struggle to ‘fix’ and ‘plan’ things in our lives, that things start falling into place. Like a wise friend of mine told me recently that what is life about, if not simply living in the moment.
Our ego relishes in taking us back to the past and agonise and then envelopes us in fear of the indefinite future that we are not able to ‘envision’. The mind is always trying to hold on to people, memories, situations and basically anything and everything outside of us to make us feel ‘happy’. But all such happiness is temporary.
All we ever have is the present moment. And as I type this blog post, I see the sun setting behind the delicate twigs of the Eucalyptus tree casting a golden spell across the sky. And I think to myself, what a wonderful life…
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.”