The reality of "realities"

Ever get that sinking feeling that no amount of goodness one does ever helps? You know, the times when you look all around you and find that it’s really not worth keeping your head above the waters of the world? How the bad always seem to be reaping all the benefits of their misdeeds and the good gets crapped all over?

Yes, many times over we hear the words how reality dictates that we all have to be cruel and crude to survive in this world and that the notions of good reigning triumphant over evil is nothing more than mere fairytale words. In short, life is money and money is life… after all, that’s why everyone’s fighting to climb one over the other, isn’t it? That’s why

Yes, I hear that all the time too and many a times, I succumbed to its lure also. But a life lived in pursuit of material possessions by whatever means (and usually, that meant screwing others over) is a life that’s even sadder than anything you can ever imagine.

But facts are facts, you may say. After all, one cannot deny seeing the realities that such cruelty brings – fame, fortune and luxury. How is it that these people always seem to be able to get away with it all? Perhaps we, too, ought to follow suit? After all, the world seems to be like that, doesn’t it?

Here, I would like to argue a point that perhaps that is not reality, for reality (or “the world”) is how we dictate how we are seeing, how we want to see and how we will choose to see it in our minds. Can you even imagine putting a price tag on human life? We do that all the time.

This person’s worth a quarter million dollars, that person’s worth four billion dollars. How then, about the ones like you and me who are in negative territories? Heck, that would make us worth less than nothing. What? My God-given life, conceived against billions of odds on the only planet in this whole wide world that is perfect and able to support human life and to have that measured by paper (aka money)? This very same paper that people have committed suicide over their inabilities to pay off debts?

Not only is that sacrilege, but to have it as a master over us makes a mockery of all that which is humanity. And to say that that is “reality” is nothing more than grossly demeaning.

So, let me ask you again. What is reality?

What you see is not necessary reality. What others say is not necessary reality. What others do and seem to reap the “fruits” of their deeds is not necessary reality.

Reality is this: humanity.

Because at the root of it all, only humanity resides within our hearts, soul and mind. And if we would only realize to ourselves how real that is, how it is able to bubble and fizzle from within ourselves, it is in essence what they say, some thing that “money can’t buy” – happiness. Now, I’m not talking about a “happiness” that springs from being able to buy the latest bag, eat at the spanky new restaurant or go on a 30-day super vacation.

No, it is real happiness that is able to keep the window of hope open when we’re at the dungeon of despair. It is an intangible happiness that far surpasses tangible happiness (er… the one that can be bought with either paper or plastic). It is a happiness that no amount of possessions can ever hope exchange for. That happiness, my friend, comes from within.

So, again I ask you. What is reality? Isn’t it about time we change our “realities” to reality? It’s time to see how God sees us rather than how others see us. Now, that’s reality!