For several years, I have pondered over the metamorphosis taking place in our physical and mental self , whenever we have welcomed a rogue, named temper ,to stay with us for a while.
Well, irrespective of whether this rendez-vous is short or long (read prolonged!), our physical self ceases to be mendacious in revealing to the outer world, about how much inside our house, that we have welcomed this fickle friend. Into one of those tough times (read tantrums), if our body starts shaking, features contort, eyes widen, a high pitched tone, feeling of a heightened sense of injustice thereby culminating into a reckless harangue or even an act of phsical violence, then rest assured that our friend "the temper" is sitting cosily right in our guest room. (Such tantrums are rare with me; but when they happen, in addition to all of the above, I remember wearing a "look through the eyebrows" sort of a look which can only be related with a scorpio. Its my guess that with this kind of a look the enemy does give atleast a second thought to the idea of backing out :) ) Now ask him what he is doing ? And he will typically reply "Dude! I am controlling you! Actually, we ourselves have handed over the keys to our peaceful self.
Now the question remains, that irrespective of the depth to which this guy has seeped into our lives, how to actually kick him out? Our ancients saints and scholars are of the opinion as to kick him out completely by means of meditation, spirituality and by total surrender to the Almighty and things like that which a guy like me is light years away from. So after a bit of thinking (read it as time pass done during office hours) , I could perceive only a single pragmatic solution : to keep the temper chained like a dog just outside our doorstep. To keep it chained till some rogue kicks on your door (read it as hurting your self-respect); and then comes the right time to set your temper loose after taking the precaution of closing your door. So that whatever pandemonium happens; it happens externally with no internal effects.
This article is the result of unleashing my mind (read "day-dreaming" or even "deep slumber") to enter into the realm of our self and to let it ponder over the issues concerning it.
Sorry to say that I do write in sort of an encrypted format. Bad Habit!! . Anyways, I have tried to put as many "read it as" as necessary. :)
Well, irrespective of whether this rendez-vous is short or long (read prolonged!), our physical self ceases to be mendacious in revealing to the outer world, about how much inside our house, that we have welcomed this fickle friend. Into one of those tough times (read tantrums), if our body starts shaking, features contort, eyes widen, a high pitched tone, feeling of a heightened sense of injustice thereby culminating into a reckless harangue or even an act of phsical violence, then rest assured that our friend "the temper" is sitting cosily right in our guest room. (Such tantrums are rare with me; but when they happen, in addition to all of the above, I remember wearing a "look through the eyebrows" sort of a look which can only be related with a scorpio. Its my guess that with this kind of a look the enemy does give atleast a second thought to the idea of backing out :) ) Now ask him what he is doing ? And he will typically reply "Dude! I am controlling you! Actually, we ourselves have handed over the keys to our peaceful self.
Now the question remains, that irrespective of the depth to which this guy has seeped into our lives, how to actually kick him out? Our ancients saints and scholars are of the opinion as to kick him out completely by means of meditation, spirituality and by total surrender to the Almighty and things like that which a guy like me is light years away from. So after a bit of thinking (read it as time pass done during office hours) , I could perceive only a single pragmatic solution : to keep the temper chained like a dog just outside our doorstep. To keep it chained till some rogue kicks on your door (read it as hurting your self-respect); and then comes the right time to set your temper loose after taking the precaution of closing your door. So that whatever pandemonium happens; it happens externally with no internal effects.
This article is the result of unleashing my mind (read "day-dreaming" or even "deep slumber") to enter into the realm of our self and to let it ponder over the issues concerning it.
Sorry to say that I do write in sort of an encrypted format. Bad Habit!! . Anyways, I have tried to put as many "read it as" as necessary. :)
