SHEDDING// LETTING GO. Sipra Roy. W500
The entire creation of earth, both animate and inanimate goes hand in hand in harmony with nature, except the human specie. It flows with the nature, accepting its different seasons whether rough or friendly. In the rainy season plants grow green leaves but shed them in winter to give way to the spring for welcoming new life. They fight only for their own survival but never try to supersede nature’s
law, which they obey coherently.
Is there any specific season of "emotional shedding' for human? Certainly not; though we wait eagerly to enjoy and to appreciate each year the beauty of shedding leaves that happen in autumn but we are the last creature to apply or to follow that principle.
Most of us suffer from emotional maladies for losing the wisdom of sacrificing or "shedding"; Human emotion contains some adhesive content. It delivers twin products of both positive and negative feeling such as: love and hate, joy and sorrow, loss and gain, weak and strong, Jealousy and pride, attachment and detachment and so on. ...
Tide of positive emotion charges energy to surge new enthusiasm which is good not only for own sake but also effective for the entire environment. But when it is negative, then emotional typhoon ransacks the life of the person who is victim; Often it lingers for a long time and creates mental, physical, relational and also social problems .It gives stress, depression and may even end in suicide . In modern time, the rich and upper middle class, globally, suffer in a realm of emotional haze and mist. This is why we see psychotherapists and yoga schools mushroomi around the globe, specially among rich countries and wealthier people.
Surprisingly, 'shedding" happens to human specie when things go wrong with them, when life flutters in negativity! The best creativity in arts and literature flourish at saddest moments, in painful situation when mind is torn by failure and sadness. Any of the famous epics is created out of pain and tragedy:
"Our sweetest memories are those that tell of saddest stories".
The achievements along with frustration of Jackson Pollock, Sylvia Plath, Anne sexton and many others stand as burning examples.
Human should learn from nature's environment how to flow consistently with nature. Fear of unknowable future, anxiety of insecurity and dishonoring nature as Super power have created this distance; we are cocooned in them like silk worm; fear of death ,fear of various diseases come one after another like unstoppable waves; they hold us to be carefree.
This is the plight as well as the price of becoming human specie as superior being; this is the universal Story of each and everyone of us , you and me!
In contrast with the rest species of nature it is hard for us to surrender at the alter of "letting go"! To quote my own poem:
"While mind is crazy and heart howls,
Let me hold and possess what I wish
How can I sing along, 'let it be! let it be!".....................
Alas, John Lenon!!
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