The two critical A's (Awareness and Acceptance)

The virtue of greatness encompasses the entire spectrum of a human behaviour and the following actions. We live in a world of our own. Little pieces of moments combines to provide what we call life. Still it remains in our best interest to choose those pieces and rearrange them in our memories of present to be happy and sad.

Remembering what was inside us when we lost the battle of life make us weak, sad and empty. We survive in hope of a better tomorrow, but we often forget that future cannot be better if we live in the world of our past. Life tests us, it often does winning is not important but surviving the test happily embarks a beginning of greatness. Feelings and logic are the same side of a coin; we believe it’s opposite, but is it? Logic gives you direction and emotions give you the thrust to move. Awareness of this helps to decide and focus.
I once encountered a person in my life who told me that “The greatest victory ever won is the victory over oneself”. I wondered what it meant. It meant the very conflict inside us when we have choices. He also told me that “The Most powerful thing in this world is Knowledge”. Amalgam of information gives knowledge and amalgam of knowledge gives wisdom. If we use this to our very oneself. We can clearly see the conflict within us. These conflicts put us down, make us weak and throw us in the cloud of uncertainty. We fail to extrapolate the facts and figures, and fail to formulate where we are being lead by our own confusion and conflict.

I had a chance to meet Afridi and Viv Richards at the same time at Bangalore Airport once. One can make out the difference in the two just by their body language and the conversation. Richards was very calm, composed knew what he is talking, A genius at speaking. Afridi was shooting in every direction. Richards had wisdom; Afridi had knowledge, yet caught up in his own conflict.

The solution which I seek is nothing more than awareness and acceptance. Awareness about yourself and acceptance of the situation can only help us to win over this conflict. How can one look inside them and get information. An art of retrospection and introspection can help to gather these fine information, and use acceptance as a tool to solve the conflict based on situations. Ones knowledge and understanding will be tested in devising the solution, but gathering information accurately will be a challenge.