Running in circles....

 A hike can change your life... Not all of us understand hiking and are seldom mindful enough to understand it really. I was fortunate to experience this beautiful journey, a wonderful activity to rejuvenate the mind and give you a fresh new perspective on life itself, which enhances its understanding within us. A hike begins with dreams of beautiful views of forests or mountains filled with sunshine, greenery nature, and solace in nature's lap. We dream vividly and imagine the end result in great detail and depth, almost always, fortunately, and completely forget about the ride on the way. We are supported by the people who want the best for us, who understand us and believe that we can do this. They are also wise people who understand the worth and lessons learned from this hike. Hence we begin any plan with borrowed strength. So we plan a day, like I did with some sunshine expected to make the journey brighter and much more enjoyable. We prepare a small backpack with some thi...

  Others include everyone other than the self. This difference between the self and others plays an extremely important role in our lives, we derive the purpose for our lives by weaving a life around these "significant and closer" others. But do we only give? Of course not, on the contrary, we usually need something from these others to choose them over the "distant others". We need like-mindedness, a sense of approval, validation, and belonging before we can actually connect to someone. So, all our relationships are quite conditional no matter how good we may think about ourselves. In our own heads, we are all righteous, trying to do the right thing, trying to make it right, and trying to undo the wrong done by others. This creates the premise for a background moral conflict always. We encounter these others in our family- at home, our first experience of this world. If acceptance and free will are encouraged at home, we get a liberal individual who is accommodati...