Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Accept it already


I propose this:
Let us treat our birth as death.

And examine it as going through the five stages of loss and grief.

a) Denial and isolation
This is infancy. Only as an infant, when we do not have the language. And are connected most truly to the thing we deny. 
We may like this phase the best, as we are being taken care of by the only ones who can love selflessly/unconditionally. 
 Language comes at least two years after that.
b) Anger
c) Bargaining
d) Depression
b,c,d come soon after. And we are pushed into this phase, where we go on and on feeling angry, depressed or bargaining over this thing or that thing.
Well, I have no regrets, but I must admit that it sometimes takes a human being of lesser intelligence/and resources-- physical as well as material (sometimes) -- up to 35 years to get over it and come to phase e
Acceptance.

And also why it is not that big a deal to accept something.
As after all, animals do it the day they are born.
And we are born only when we accept something. 
But we have created this whole drama, 
in between birth and death, 
of accepting either/something.

Postscript:  (When I googled philosophy + accepting things, this was a question on a forum:
'Why do people constantly ponder philosophical questions rather than accept things as they are?'
And the answer is long, but here's an excerpt
It's easy to forget that these days, as Philosophy has acquired the reputation of an arcane subject studied by bearded men.  It wasn't always seen that way.)

The show must go on.