What's our mind seeking?

Our mind seeks different things in a day or a couple of days-

Work - Want to complete some commitments in work daily, either self driven or out of compulsion.

Express our achievements - The tendency to seek attention, praise from known people in our network. Although the number of people known to us is negligible to the total population on the planet.

Need to express - Talk it out with a friend, speak something.

Relax & enjoy - No interest in work for some time, like weekends, vacations, do something else that is not compulsive, or is a change to focused work,

Companionship - Love, etc.

Spiritual Ecstasy - Seeking the unknown, the unmundane, the secret, being elevated in that bliss of being with that.

Any one of them can dominate for a couple of days and set your narrative for those days. Just when one particular mode dominates, be aware of it. That mode will change later in a few days.

Your security?

The only one that guides you through experiences and through time is the divine. The people that you meet along the way, the mentors or the tormentors- both move on after some time. They are only the instruments of the divine. Your security is with the divine and not the people.

Who decides?

First, we decide what we want to do — then nature decides where to take us in the journey. At times, the nature stops us from doing it. At times, it let's us do it and fail. At time, its let'sus do it and succeed.

Vacillating between suffocation and guilt?

You set your daily targets and work on them. They may be related to fitness routine, work, time spent in reading news & on social media. If you meet your targets stringently by force, you may feel suffocation and need a break. If you break out on social media too much, you may feel guilty.

The best way is to balance. Ensure that you meet 80% of your target daily and that's fine.

Animals too?

In the jungles, the animals don’t want to die. They bear the pain of losing their offspring or siblings to predators. Else someone else will go hungry. The animals are alert.

The chicken shop is worser. Once the chicken reaches the shop, it is looking at its own fate as it sees the end of its fellow mates. There is no love, freedom or choice.

Yet, in the world, there is a plan. There is a design. The animal offspring starts walking within a few minutes of taking birth. The animals don’t need to cook. There is love. There is companionship. There is parenthood. Animals in a herd protect each other. But there is pain and loss too. Is it different than the humans?

Does this signal anything? May be because the animal world too is, at last, the world. Everyone comes to the world for a temporary period. It’s not the final destination. It’s a transitory phase. So how can one be allowed to settle in this transitory illusion with the only experience of pleasure? Whether an insect or an animal or a human, you have to move on.

Uncertainties?

Are there uncertainties in life?

Who owns the idea?

Have you ever experienced a sudden idea that came to you? Which faculty of you was involved? From where did it come?