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PERSPECTIVES BY SKC
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ACCEPTANCE - Ultimate Failure or Peak of Evolution
The internet is flooded with endless content on ‘Acceptance’. However, if it was so easy to comprehend it, each of us would have evolved into a Buddha by now.
One can perceive ‘Acceptance’ as resignation or escapism. At least in India, we have perceived it to be so, on a large scale. If you see garbage on the road, it is apparently because authorities have accepted and resigned that it can never be cleaned. Hence, as citizens, we also accept this fact and do not put any efforts towards cleaning it or asking the authorities to take action.
However, that is not the case only within India. All over the world, when it comes to us as individuals, don’t we all perceive ‘Acceptance’ as resignation or defeat? If we are unable to wake up on time and exercise, we resign ourselves to accepting ‘I can’t do this.’
This attribute of ‘I can’t do this’ can spread widely from our daily habits to intricate strategic decision making in boardrooms and mega organizations. The moment we accept the attribute of ‘I can’t do this,’ resignation kicks in and the whole engine of failure propels. On one hand, we start failing when we stop trying. However, this failure snowballs when we become obsessed with making that thing happen. No matter how we approach it, failure starts to permeate in either way.
In the pretext of Acceptance we start looking at things as challenges and become obsessed with resolving them. Obsession drives us in a completely different direction.
For instance, spiritual obsession can become a very big reason for complacency. The quest to know ‘Who I am’ needs to be approached in a unique way rather than obsessing over it. The obsession begins when we accept the spiritual quest as a challenge. From somewhere this perception creeps in that we want to know ‘Who I am.’ And, to determine ‘Who I Am,’ we need to sit up for hours trying to focus on this one question. We do not realize when this quest transforms into an obsession
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