Summer of life

Enough eagle to one summer's day a grasshopper was hoping about chirping and singing to its heart's content Anant pass by bearing along with great oil and ear of corn he was taken to the nest why not come in chat with me set a grasshopper instead of toiling in modelling in that way in helping to lay out food for the winter and and recommend you to do the same why bother about the winter set the grasshopper if got plenty of food that the present at the and one on its way and continued its toll on the window came the grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger when it while it's so the and distributing everyday Kaun and grains from the stores they had collected in the summer than the grasshopper new is best to prepare for the days of name

Why did I narrate this particular story today? I did so because the question that the grasshopper asks , which is why bother about the winter? is really interesting .

why ?

it interesting because of the difficulty of a person in a comfortable position conceptualize about a reality that might be harsh. When we are having a good time , why spoil it with thoughts of pain and suffering , when there is the ever looming possibility that it might just never arrive.

It is important that we face the existential burden and this about this because , suffering of some shape or form is inevitable , though it might vary in magnitude. . A person who is not prepared or who does not want to think about such a possibility will be taken aback all of a sudden when suffering manifests itself . To him or her the blow that came in the dark is strong enough to knock him or her out.

The winter came and the grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger. There is a common saying which goes like this ignorance is bliss .Ignorance is bliss, it is a momentary bliss that relives us of the suffering just for the time being . It is like closing your eyes when you are about to be hit by a truck . You feel safe, but in reality , you just cannot see the danger.

So even though sacrificing the good time that we having in the present might not seem like a really good option right now when you all comfortable , it definitely seems like a good option when we look at it from the perspective of the future being that is suffering. Guilt is really poison and a the whole The thought that might have crossed the grasshoppers mind should be he should I work hard he should have saved something for the coming winters so that he would have hard resource the and had a really tough time when the grasshopper was going around having and enjoying the graph the answer to work but when the bad times came to be prepared.

First step to take once we have conceptualized the winter or the suffering is to act in a way so that we will be able to survive the tough times .This is exactly what the ant does it works really hard and it hoards food for the future. We have to work in the present and make small sacrifices so that will have food to survive in the future . We can also look at it from a slightly different perspective. When we think and act in such ways we will broaden the horizons of our being.

What do I mean by that?

Our idea of our own selves is usually quite blurry. The limits of what we are capable of doing is usually not really defined. The only way to see how far we can take ourselves we will have to test the limit. This process should continue on because if if shift our possibility farther and farther and try to reach towards it, we will be able to strech our limits. Now obviously there are limits. But it is always worth trying. Once we have survived a winter of suffering we will have streched our limits that far. We will be able to respect our own being as we did not die and stood up to the challenge and faced it. This is what Nietzsche meant when he said ' that which does not kill you makes you stronger. Once a person survives a particular winter or a hardship he now is equipped with the a survival kit that he will be able to use in future , just in case. Thus to the one who acted , it was an oppertunity to learn , even if he or she failed , that is just one option eliminated from the plethora of opportunity .

So if you are going through the summer of your life right now, be grateful and keep the mind in mind and act.