FUTILITY OF PRIDE

Recently, I was reading an article in a site devoted to Space, which speaks about a photo of our planet taken from the deep space for the first time. It looks like a bluish dot. The question posed by the author is very significant to this context. He mentions about the insignificance of our planet against the vast galactic backdrop  He goes on imploring that the warriors and the conquerors in their merciless attacks on innocent people have practically failed to understand that when our Earth is no bigger than a dot-- how much these people have achieved by conquering a nation or some territories.

This question has serious validity. Someone had said that if you are proud of yourself then lie down on your back and look at the open sky-- certainly with an intention that when you understand the futility of your so called worldly achievements, a calming sense of humility will dawn in you.

Therefore, to me, people who attach lot of importance to their lives and achievements are seriously blundered in life, in capable of comprehending the realities and live inside a cocoon shell of complacency, and ironically in a state of self deception.

We become inwardly self conscious because of our unceasing endeavor to project ourselves as important in life. As I have stated before; it is a mode of self deception only. There is a perceptive maxim which says-- when you talk about yourself, very few people, in fact, would be interested in you, but when you learn to address to the problems and difficulties, and also learn to appreciate the achievements and triumphs of others, they show interest in you and you emit a magnetic aura.