I Am What I Am

“Hey! Did you go to the Halloween party the other night?”, a friend asked.

“Nope. Did you?”

“They invited me but didn’t go because of work. I don’t have a costume too. I am poor.”

I was taken aback by his last statement. Though the phrase “you are what you think” is a cliché, yet it still holds true. When he said I am poor, it seems to me that he felt he is stuck there for good and can’t do anything about it.

It saddens me to think that we have forgotten that we choose the life that we live in. We have never been damned or condemned with a miserable life. Yet, sometimes, we blame it to ‘destiny’ and believing that we can’t do anything about it. When you say you are poor, it is because you have chosen to be one. When you say “I can’t do it!”, you always had an option to say, “Yes! I can do it!”.

Perhaps, some people would argue that there are those who are just lucky enough to be born in a privileged environment. I say, there is no such thing as luck for believing in such means you believe in an accidental universe. As what Seth has said,

“Amid the mad scramble, you DO make your own reality. I admit that sounds too simple, but you will not be caught in an earthquake if you do not want to be, and no one dies who has not decided to do so. You make your own reality, or you do not. And if you do not, then you are everywhere a victim, and the universe must be an accidental mechanism appearing with no reason. So that the miraculous picture you have seen of your body came accidentally into creation, and out of some cosmic accident attained its miraculous complexity. And that body was formed so beautifully for no reason except to be a victim. That is the only other alternative to forming your own reality. You cannot have a universe in between. You have a universe formed WITH a reason, or a universe formed WITHOUT a reason. And in a universe of reason, there are no victims. Everything has a reason or nothing has a reason. So, choose your side!”

Steve Jobs, who just died recently, was one of the richest men in the world, inventor, businessman and co-founder of Apple. He was not born rich. He was an adopted child. He has to return coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food, walk seven miles across town to get a good meal from a Hare Krishna Temple. The difference is Steve BELIEVED that he can change. He BELIEVED that HE CAN DO IT.

Thus keep in mind that the world is your stage and the life you live is your chosen role. Remember that it is just a role. If you don’t like it, you can always change it.

Namaste.