How do the newly born, cute little turtles once hatched, somehow find their way into the sea? All that the mama turtle does is lay the eggs and goes its way. How Cruel?
Once Willful, the young turtle asked her friend, "Willless is there life after death? I dont know he said, maybe there is life after death. Why dont you ask and seek the answer yourself, he continued... after all we are intelligent individuals with enquiring questions such as this one! " Willful walked on the shore restlessly, desperately trying to find a quick and satisfying answer.
Willful and willless were the of best friends on the beach. They shared experiences, good and bad. They almost always spoke for long hours, discussing life and lliving.
Willless spoke "Riding the 'right tide of life' is not easy with the wrong way of living. One can lead a life in which he/she has got all that was desired without bothering about the way he/she took to lead that life. In short life and living should be in harmony, otherwise people around us are going to suffer, we will lead a life that we wanted, at the expense of others's suffering. And while others around us are suffering, it is apathetic to enjoy ourselves". "You are a loser Willless that is why you speak thus", Willful said. You have not experienced anything in life. And so she walked off.
Willless sat there, contemplating over the element of truth in the words of Willful. He was a very wise person, so he swallowed the bitter pill and embraced the moment of truth.
I am going Willful said, you can come along if you want, declaring her wish to end the sad conversation which was really far too condescending and patronising for her liking. I am going into the woods to seek the answer myself as you just instructed me. "Dont" Willless said " No you dont start all over again i am going to be what i will be" shouted Willful. Willless thought "she will find her answers" and headed to the ocean to continue his job and make a living.
And without for once paying heed the she turtle darted into the woods. There the she turtle faced many challenges and faced them boldly. An innate strength of character paved way for her journey into the quest for the answer. Life and living were both great friends to her.
Once, while she was strolling in the woods she saw a few snakes eat small baby turtles from a turtle NEST. She stopped and looked on helplessly while her brothers and sisters were getting munched for a feast. Their heart getting ripped apart, melted the soft heart of Willful. She said to herself "How cruel nature is, a being stronger is allowed to get away with such a heinous act, CRUEL! CRUEL! CRUEL! she wept" She wept for hours and days, days and months and then she finally declared "I have found my answer she beamed with joy" Life after death is totally irrelevant to me. "According to me everyone must live this life, this moment fully and when it comes, embrace death totally. I have come from being nowhere to being now here!". This is the greatest day of my life. I am fulfilled.
She wept again with tears of acceptance of the truth that, WILL TO LIFE is inseparable from the nature itself. "Life goes on she said to the whole world, it does not care for your enquiring questions, your philosophies, and all that bunkum; Nature knows only one thing well, that life in any form has to continue and this is the only eternal truth. Life is full of suffering and suffering is constant. The realisation of the suffering brings bliss, she concluded.
How do the newly born, cute little turtles once hatched, somehow find their way into the sea? All that the mama turtle does is lay the eggs and goes its way. How Cruel?
Willful: Nature is not cruel or kind, it is just the way it is! The nature shows the way (to us turtles) towards survival. You can call it collective conscious or Will to Life, nature will try and protect its children, its species, but when the moment its weaknessess and helplessness are exposed, Nature will watch the death of one life, for the birth of another. This is the way it is!
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