Positive thinking: Food for the soul

In the present times, people are more inclined towards glamour than goodness. People seem to be brainwashed into believing that glamour is equal to happiness.

Why does glamour have more appeal than goodness? There are three traits in human consciousness. Looking good, feeling good and being good. The most important of these traits is ‘being-good.’ Many people value ‘feeling-good.’ However, if ‘feeling-good’ is not anchored on being good, then people get into drugs. Drugs temporarily make you feel good, but are not good for your well-being.

People also value looking good more. Impressing another is of primary importance. For them, looking good, physically and psychologically is more important than feeling good and being good. There is nothing wrong in looking good, as long as it is based on being good. More often, people want their image to be appreciated to feed their ego. Glamour is food for the ego; it decorates your ‘looking-good’ pattern. Hence, glamour is of a greater appeal.

People sacrifice ‘feeling-good’ and ‘being-good’ for the sake of ‘looking-good.’ When looking-good is not based on being-good, then life becomes a mess.

The world runs on the illusion of looking-good. If you do not look good, you will not survive this rat race, little realising that even if you win, you continue to be a rat. Are people happy in spite of being successful? Why is it that many successful people are still miserable? The reason being that they do not know the art of being happy. A study done on happy people showed that happy people were good finders. They always seek and find something good even in the bad.

Use the image of looking-good but do not be used by the image of looking-good. Just as you wear a dress, you are not the dress; so you are not the image. To be happy, be free from any image of yourself. Be empty of image, empty of thoughts, empty of conclusions. This inner emptiness is joy. This is a new way of looking.