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The Inspired Change C-3 B-1 (日: Limits)
A limit (一) is as far as one can go.
While the Sun is almost limitless in every quarters – size, power, resources, wisdom, and so on -- human is defined by limits, the lowest is earth, and the highest, heaven.
The lowest is a base below which is a bottomless pit that does not support life; cascading the depressed soul from one bottom to another with endless miseries.
So, it is a “bottomless pit” that inflicts miseries nonstop, and not because the lack of will to fight the odds, as commonly diagnosed. Logically then, constructing a base -- earthly enough to hold the fall and stage a rebound – should end the sufferings once and for all; sparing one the agony of a head-on, no-win fight with the depression, as normally prescribed.
On the other hand, the highest is one’s growth limit beyond which is a mysterious headwind; retaliating ferociously against any encroachment; and engaging the obstinate in a prolonged tug of war, to either exhaust the intruder into submission, or stretch their lives until it snaps, free falls, and lands with a big bam at ground zero, for a restart.
There is a distinct difference between a “challenge” and “headwind”. A challenge energizes you to rise above the occasion and scale new height. A headwind tires you out with increasing resistances for every step forward until you are totally exhausted. So, take on the challenges but respect the headwinds, if you want to live happily ever after.
Yet, the worst kind is a man-made limit, an emotion thatch, a hardened layer of negatives that starts to coagulate the moment you were born, amassing junks like:
• Extreme emotions like uncontrollable anger, excessive worrying, or crippling fear.
• Traumatic experiences like serious accidents, abuses (physical, emotional, or sexual), or catastrophes (war or natural disasters).
• Unresolved issues like conflicts, unfulfilled ambitions, or regrets.
• Distortions like half-truths, prejudice, or extreme thoughts.
• Trivialities like insignificant details, petty issues, or inconsequential incidents.
The lack of dethatching over a long period of time is what causes the hardening. The common excuses given for the inaction range from ignorance, oversight, deficiencies, can’t be bothered attitude, to obstinacy.
The price for cooking up excuses is a self-made prison that grows more impermeable with each delay, and eventually becomes “unbreakable” with only one possible escape route – drawing strength from “The Force” outside.
Here is the inside story.
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