What does having faith in someone or something mean?
Faith is my sanctum. It is my immunity against pessimism. It gives me strength and courage to face life.
I have immense faith in two things. God first ,and me second. The reasons are obvious.
I believe in God and not in a God. God to me is someone omnipotent and sagacious. His presence is ubiquitous. I believe that whatever happens is for the good. God then, is an entity who takes control of our lives by orchestrating events whose wisdom we might realize in the due course of our lives. If we scrutinize our actions and start looking at life holistically, not in bits and pieces, we will see that meaningful coincidences exist; that each event had some significance in weaving the fabric of our lives.
We are a function of our actions. Our actions are a function of either an external stimulus or our habits. How we react to a situation is entirely dependent on us and so are our habits. I cannot control how others behave, and to some extent, circumstance. So when I am not a function of circumstance and the onus of a response is entirely on me, I have no other option but to have faith in myself. To make things simple, in the realm of life where I have the power of veering its course, I ought to be the oarsman.
Coming back to the question I asked earlier. I guess all of us have faith in something. Be it a shrine or an idol or a spirit. Faith can be thought of in various contexts, the most common being religion. But I am not delving into that. I am also not talking about having faith in someone. That is a function of our naiveté or our intuition.
I am thinking about faith in terms of hope.
An optimism which keeps us sane and propels our lives.
A lifebuoy that helps you stay afloat.
Whenever something goes wrong, and sometimes bad times are protracted, it is my faith in God, and to an extent in me, that has helped me overcome them. It is not that I would pray that my troubles get over with or that I will wallow in self-pity, hoping that things will become alright. To me, that takes away time from actually trying to get on with life. It makes sense to dwell on a solution and not the problem itself. Dwelling on factuality does not change the fact itself. You simply believe that good times will come and work towards realizing them.
Faith then is an attitude. It is a frame of mind. It is an innate belief that things will go our way sooner or later. From my experience I can say that most tasks I have encountered believing they can be done, have been accomplished. When you approach something with negativity, it is never done. Pessimism is a positive feedback. You go into something believing it cannot be done, you don’t do it and it reinforces your faith that it couldn’t be done in the first place. Instead if you’d have gone into it wholeheartedly and gave it your best shot, you’d at least have had the satisfaction of being true to yourself. Not rocket science, is it? I relate the antithetical attitude to this scenario with faith.
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I heard that you were part of the weblog club, so I checked you out. Thought I would reveal myself so that I don't feel like a stalker. I'm sad that you aren't enjoying 100 Years of Solitude. Although... I had to read it a second time to really get anything out of it. zhope your Asia trip was fun. :)
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