A word on problems

A word on problems

Google says a problem is a matter regarded as 'unwelcome' and is something that has to be overcome.
Let's stop Google right there and give it a thought. What are problems. why do we have problems? Is this the most challenging thing in our lives? Are problems our first priority to work upon? Should it be so? Let's think.
When we think of the word happiness we think about a lot of stuff sometimes materialistic, sometimes a color, sometime about family, friends, or just the environment in our heads. We have given happiness such good elements in our heads. But, when it comes to being sad we tend to just feel 'darkened' and nothing materialistic pops inside. So does this mean, at a very basic level, that we have not understood sadness very well? Or are we just scared to materialise sadness?
Things when going well, will never be questioned. Because, why bother something which going on well?  But, when things get rough, we tend to observe all elements around it to be strange (like if a computer stop working we also get suspicious on the power source).
The way some see sadness is like a school homework. Like a problem of mathematics. Every one is trying to find a solution because either they are scared of the teacher(god is the word maybe) or they just like this subject (life). Some give up judging the problem to be wrong (when people decide suicide). Some try solving it all their lives and still fail to find the answer. And a very few get the solution right.
So when asked them about how they went to find an answer to this 'problem'. They say they never had any 'problem' it was just their job to get things done and live along.
What they mean to say is if we tend to see sadness as problem and change our priority accordingly and try staying far away from it, we are actually trying move far away from ourselves and so we are indirectly trying to isolate ourselves from happiness too because,both these emotions stay right within us.
Prejudicing sadness and problems is also a major factor for losing ourselves. When fighting with your partner is as big a problem as spilling sauce on your shirt, life will get so easy. When we can put all our happiness under the same roof, why not sadness and problems?
Facing all emotions with gratitude is a skill, essential to develop.
When we teach our kids NOT to cry, get angry, shout out, dance around, We are just taking away colours of their rainbow. Let yourself free. Experience everything equally. Laugh ,shout ,cry ,smash, jump run, stop, stand. Do every little thing you have always wanted to do. Because, this world is as free as your mind. It's just clogged up with society , religion, rules, regulations, suspicions, horror. When you can go through every other thing that you can and want to, will you realise that math problem is not problem but a  thread. A thread connecting you with you.

Santrupth. K

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