humannature wrote:Yellow,
Very touching post. I started writing something in the similar lines a few days ago and then did a Ctrl A+Del.
What I wanted to write that day was about this kid who sells breakfast n lunch on a thela in front of my office. we comfortably sit in the office while that guy sits outside enduring NY winter n the costal humidity in summer.
Is he a slacker? Is he NOT working hard? How could he have used his freewill to do well in his life? May be he could have worked hard while he was in school, but who knows what his family and financial situation was! May be he was sick, may be he has deb mercury or something which would not allow him to be sharp in school!! May be..may be...ughhh
I think about astrology and freewill almost every morning when I pass by his food truck.
Humannature,
Thank you. I am glad to know that you liked my post. Coming to the boy, that’s exactly the point I was making—is the boy not working hard? He is working much, much harder than those guys who work in a comfortable office doing desk job. So what free will has he got? Did he choose his parents; did he choose his environment in his childhood? No, he didn’t. As you rightly said, he was most probably born in a poor family, where the parents couldn’t afford to send him to school. Or let us even imagine that he was sent to school, but he had a dull brain and couldn’t do well in his studies—is that his fault? Was he consulted before choosing what brain he can have? If he puts huge effort, can he make his brain more sharp? And the point is, how much effort he puts, he will not go much far in life, with his free will, unless destiny does a miracle for him, like it has done in many other cases—the rags-to-riches story that we hear about all the time. It’s not the effort in those cases that makes the people successful because efforts don’t take one much far—it’s the miracles that destiny brings in those people’s lives that changes their fate.
Believe me, this very boy you are talking about can become a superstar one day, and his chart gets discussed on this forum, just like Katie Holmes chart got discussed recently. There are stories like that we get to hear about, which makes me believe that if it has happened once, it can happen again, and actually it does happen all the time in this world.
In our Indian movie industry there are a few stars, who rose in life from very humble circumstances, and that was not hard work, but fate because hard work is done by millions in those similar circumstances, and they don’t go an inch forward in life from the position they are in—they sometimes go back a few steps if destiny is harsh on them further.
Taking it from a different angle as you said the boy may have been dull in studies, I always believe it’s not just the circumstances we are born in; it’s also the abilities we are born with, which decides our life. We mock people, who have not faired well in life, but we should realize that everyone has not the same ability. Everyone doesn't have the same intelligence, the same hard working capability. If a boy is dull headed, is it his fault? Everyone doesn't come first in class, so the one who comes first does work, and the others don’t?
Then we all face different circumstances in life, which moulds our personality, accordingly. A person who has lost his son can’t think the same way as a person, who has a son, who loves him a lot. A person who has been bullied all his childhood can’t grow up with a mind frame, which a person, who has been wonderfully treated all his childhood has. So it’s the circumstances, the abilities, which make us what we are.
"Go thou and follow Him, who was born and gave His life for others five hundred times before He attained the vision of the Buddha!" -- Swami Vivekananda
. why to fight and waste time in knowing about who exist or who came first 
. Its always neither or both. sometimes power of freewill is in your destiny and sometimes your free will makes your destiny.
