Illusion
Life is like an illusion. It is difficult to differentiate between the reality and the imagination. Sometimes we live in the imagination that lives in our mind. We think and expect life is like what we have expected or drawn in our mind. And when the reality presents a different picture… we tend to have difficulties to accept it.
How many times have we influenced others lives, with our own imagination? We embrace others’ lives in our imagination, with hopes and promises we give for them, and we forget that others also have their own imaginations, and at the same time tend to embrace us to theirs as well. When collisions among imaginations happen, sometimes we’re able to get back to the reality, and deal with the conflict. But most of the times, we choose to push others away from our life, because it presents a different reality from our own imagination. And we don’t like to have a different reality… claps our hands, twist our words a bit… and off they go away…
If they feel hurt, it’s not our responsibility, it’s their fault, because they cannot meet our expectation like what we have in mind…
That’s an illusion…
How many times, we always think and believe that we have done our best for us and others? We always think that others never understand or appreciate our effort to make their life better? How proud we are to realize that we have a great vision to complete others lives with our efforts, but how disappoint we are when they reject it?
How far we realize, that most of the time, we just live in our illusion, to see things from our point of view… and force everything to happen according to the pictures we have in mind…
The selfishness inside us, is our own enemy… often we thinks that we know the best thing for us and others…
The ego inside us, is also our own enemy… often we know we do something wrong, but we are so tempted to satisfy the ego…
Often that the illusion in our mind controls the way we do life…
Conflict appears…
We hurt others…
We are hurt by others…
There are many disappointments in life…
Upset… anger… stresses… depression…
Conceived by illusions together with the selfishness and ego…
And everyday in our life, we’re so busy with the illusions… arguments between family members, arguments between colleagues, arguments between friends… relationship broken…
We’re so busy with our own illusions… to make it as the winner…
And we forget… who we really are… what we really are…
We even tend to give order to God to play along in our illusions, to make our wishes to come true… so that we can feel happy, satisfying our ego…
We blame God if He refuses to help us accomplishing our illusions…
We are angry to God if He gives a reality with the level below our illusions…
We cry so hard to God so that He will approve our illusions…
We are fasting to pursue God to bless our wishes…
We manipulate our own conscience… just to satisfy our ego…
Is it what life is all about? To live in the illusions?
Instead of fighting to win our illusions… what is the most important thing we have to do in life?
