During the process of living one’s
life, everyone makes decisions, decisions that have consequences. All these
decisions have their set of expectations that need to be fulfilled. It is these
expectations that result in our emotional response towards the outcome, are we
happy or are we sad? This post would not be about the emotional response that
we display or why do we display, rather than that, this would be about one very
particular mode of convincing that most of us are bound to follow without
giving it a second thought.
The divine plan!
Let us admit it, not every plan works
and well most of them fail. What is more interesting here is, that the
probability of accepting that there is a divine plan is directly proportional
to the level of expectation that is associated with the plan. Let us try to
understand this divine plan, if there was any divine plan, then what all would
it constitute of? Would it constitute every decision that you make in your
life? If that was to be true then you getting a flat tyre or getting hurt while
playing soccer, would also be a part of this divine plan, because you made the
decision to go by car or play soccer instead of cricket that day. Now what sort
of plan would this then become? A plan that has an event that needs to occur,
yet gaining no experience from that event. How many more such events can one
count, which have no learning or enlightenment? Thus how could someone put an
event in a plan with no purpose at all, is that not wastage of time and effort?
And the most interesting part in this would be that we never convince ourselves
by saying that is all part of the divine plan, keep faith in the divine plan.
Now, increasing the expectation, you
do not get the job that you want, and all of a sudden, instead of selecting your
defects, competitors superiority, mindset of the interviewer, we pick up the
classical mode of convincing “Something better is in stored for me, there is a
divine plan”. Now, what do you believe in? A plan that you only see when your
high expectation does not get met, otherwise that plan never existed. And
if this divine plan exists, then only failure of one decision would not be
enough from convincing the free will about not trying that again. So what is
the sub-plan in the divine plan that ensures that the person walks on the
divine plan after failing on the other plan?
So for one moment if we believed that
there was no such thing as a divine plan, then how would our lives become? You
got hurt while playing soccer, well that would just be because of your
inability to react quickly to the event of an opponent running towards you. You
did not get the job that would be because you were not at your best that day.
Your partner left you, well simply put either you or him was bad at being a
partner, there would be no fairy tales, no false hopes and no prince in
shining armour All there would be reality and no one getting hurt
because of getting hit by reality.
So would be have a world that is more
prepared for acceptance as compared to the world that wants to learn acceptance
by believing in a divine plan? I hope that I could get the answer of that
someday. And this divine plan does lose its essence when you tell this to a guy
who has failed a lot in his life, what do you expect him to believe in when he has
failed so many times? Instead of a divine plan, what we might need is a divine
approach, which needs to either be provided by almighty or humans alone.
