In a small eatery, a man is having his meal.
Two tables ahead of him, two women and a man are sipping coffee.
Suddenly, a cockroach falls on one of the women’s shoulders.
Startled, she screams loudly and slaps the cockroach off her shoulder.
It lands on the man nearby.
He too begins a similar drama of panic and shouting.
Seeing the commotion, a waiter rushes over.
When the second woman slaps the cockroach, it lands on the waiter’s shoulder.
But the waiter, without any panic, calmly observes the cockroach, gently holds its wings, and takes it outside to release it.
Watching all this, the man begins to reflect.
Was the cockroach the reason for all the screaming?
If the cockroach was the cause, why didn’t the waiter react the same way?
No! The cockroach wasn’t the cause of the panic.
The real issue was that the two individuals didn’t have the ability to handle the situation calmly.
Life constantly tests us with unexpected events.
But how we respond to those events reveals our true character.
The same situation may make one person laugh and another cry.
The difference lies not in the event, but in the mindset with which it is faced.
That’s when the man begins to think, when someone acts angrily or mistakenly toward us, why do we get angry?
It’s because we lack the ability to handle such situations with composure.
When stuck in traffic, why do we become irritated and increase our stress?
Because we haven’t developed the skill to handle such moments peacefully.
A calm mind is a weapon.
It protects us and elevates us.
The person who maintains peace in chaos, conflict, and pressure is truly strong.
Even if we can’t change external circumstances, we can always change our internal response.
Dear beloved ones,
The above is a fictional incident!
But if we understand the life lessons hidden within it, we can find simple solutions to many of life’s challenges.
Often, we imagine things that don’t exist and create suffering for ourselves based on those imaginations
Imagination can be our friend or our enemy.
Good imagination uplifts us; false imagination brings us down.
Fear of “what if,” or suspicion of “they must have said this about me,” leads us into unnecessary pain.
Living in imagination without knowing the truth is like searching for a path in darkness.
Once, Abraham Lincoln asked his secretary, “If you call a horse’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have?”
The secretary replied, “Five legs.”
Lincoln said, “No, it still has only four legs. A tail cannot be a leg.”
Yes, dear ones!
No matter how we imagine something, it doesn’t become real!
Truth must be accepted as it is.
Mislabeling, misinterpreting, and misunderstanding lead us astray.
True freedom in life is living in alignment with truth.
We must not deceive ourselves by hiding, altering, or decorating the truth with imagination.
Imagining things we don’t truly know like assuming someone said something about us and then suffering because of it, is entirely useless.
True freedom for a person is to live in a space where they can enjoy their rights without obstruction.
That doesn’t mean destroying someone else’s freedom.
My dear youth, you are not weak.
You are capable of absorbing what is right in the right way and bringing pride to yourselves and your society.
You can do it.
With love,
Sakthi Sakthithasan
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