Heap of Faith

Can too much of faith in something, make you demanding and impatient? Can too much of faith also make you mechanical? More so, can too much of faith make you restless in wait of results, for which you're holding onto the faith. If we unravel this, the answer would probably be a 'yes'!

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Discussing this with a friend and pondering more on this particular thought while driving back. I'm thinking aloud.

Well, for my friend's aunt, her life wouldn't be complete until she settles down, ah! precisely gets married. Her aunt leaves no stone un-turned in making her feel guilty of her single-hood with each passing day. She (her alleged Aunt) would go to any extent to make it happen. She who always believed in karma all her life, is now making her visit temples, arranging all sorts of puja for her.

"I mean, the aunt is doing all this for the guy who would live with her. To me, everybody seems more excited for him, entering in her life than her's years' long existence in theirs. She is telling her to keep innumerable fasts and now her last faith-card is to make her wear an inanimate object on her finger, which according to me demands a gigantic rock of solitaire!" 

Here I know, she is not shying away from all this. Definitely not because, that she believe in all this or that she has given-in to her aunt's current belief. But, I believe the only fact which presumably keeps her unfazed through all this, is that all her life, my friend has predominantly believed, "If something has to happen it will happen". It will make its way, when it’s destined to, irrespective of all the array of efforts one does, did or even chose not to."

If her aunt wants to pursue this superstition via her, I think, she will succeed. Again, if all this makes her happy, I know my dear friend, would definitely do it. People have different ways to show their gratitude to the above. And my friend respect hers. 

But what about her happiness? What about the respect of my friend's decision, which states 'waiting patiently for things to happen and not rush.'

Sigh! "What doesn't make me happy, that all this while my precious friend has forgotten that if that happens, it won't occur because of these superstitious moves of her Aunt, about which she's getting worried right now, but it will happen only, because something some up there has already planned it to happen." Hence, my friend needs to trust life with all her heart, to do good back to her.

Adding to the threads of my fleeting after-thought, I believe it holds quiet true for almost everybody, when something finally happens for which they've have waited for long, they tend to forget, what they've faced in that hour of need, before that desirable need was filled. It's more like, till the time we want something, we keep that wish, in our prayers everyday. As soon as, it's granted, we even conveniently forget to thank HIM. However, we sweep all the credit on our side, by assuming, It was us who made things happen, that - we stood strong, we did that puja, we wore those colorful stones, which landed us with yearned results. Rather, it was Mr. 'HIM' who ensured that we stand tall and strong. 'He' was with us when we thought we were alone.

I see her, gather herself post this vent-out. So, I close, the phone-call discussion with her by saying, that things do happen. Everything you want will surely happen. But in its own destined sweet-time. Till then laugh your way through the impatient wait. :)

Panning the frame on me, I am aware, I can't showcase my faith on the almighty by lighting diyas in the nearby temple. But I have his light of belief shining in me every day. And that is my definition of believing in something or someone. You don't have to prove it any time, in fact you got to just unconditionally believe in it all-the-while and all-the-time. 

Thanks for reading! :) 

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