Challenges in life

23/10/2020 Realisation obtained from a KITTEN

Recently, my neighbours grey cat has given birth to four kittens. They are cute animals. One of them appears to have one impaired eye which is obvious. Guess that his the other eye is normal as it does look ordinarily like the rest of the kittens.

Nevertheless, this kitten is the bravest among her four siblings. As a month old, the kitten came inside to strangers house, i.e. my house, another neighbour house, she walked along the street seeking adventure, like human. Looking for fun/happiness. I often seeing her playing and happy it seems. Sometimes, i see that she is quite sad too. When she had to force out of her adopted family house when they washed the car porch. Anyhow, life is just like that, often times we meet with challenges and have to struggle to get back on our feet. But, after passing through these life huddles, we look life in a different perspective, it taught us to understand that life indeed is suffering yet we can overcome it with endurance, patience and many other good virtues. So there are two ways depends on our choice of action 1. Leads us to bright way 2. Leads us to darkness. Of course, the darkness could be if we choose to escape with intoxicant, it destroyed our future happiness. It drained our wealth and take away our stable life i.e. our relationship with our loves one.

We live a meaningful life by choosing friends that give us good advice, lend us a helping hand, advice us to be responsible, to rise beyond our limitations. If we cannot, encourage us to keep trying, we will succeed one day.

We think too much, worry too much, takes long time to decide minor things. And foremost important no action, which stop us from reaching our goal; if we rely on thinking and no action, we cannot discover many things in life. People used to say we need to live our life fully. Bear in mind that we still need to be good, be a good hearted person; no intoxicant; which means we uphold our five precepts 1. Abstain from killing living beings, 2. Abstain from taking things not given, 3. Abstain from sensual misconduct, 4. Abstain from false speech, 5. Abstain from consuming anything that causes intoxication or heedlessness. All these are our basic foundation that free us from danger and let us sleep in peace at night.

I am all supportive of people who dare to make changes and step up to do the right things. Showing good examples and leads a fulfilling life. Happy living.