Is Life this simple

Who are you?

Your life is a conflict between your inner desires and outer world achievements. It is the gap between inner life and outer life, between what you want and what you have. In another way, it’s about what you want to do and what you actually do.

What is Inner Life?

Inner Life is the emotional collection of your desires, goals, wants and ambitions. This is what you think most of the time. It could be “finding a dream job, finding a good partner in life, becoming rich etc.” Most of us rate our life based on our thoughts. When we think of being kind to someone else, we believe that we are already kind. We believe on what we think, which doesn’t have to be the reality. We have a bunch of hidden agendas, fears, limitations that we don’t want the real world to see in us. There are lots more going inside our mind that just hiding our minuses and projecting our pluses.

What is outer Life?

Outer Life is what you actually have, do and behave. In this reality of life, people believe you are kind only when you have demonstrated your kindness in previous behavior. In outer life, it takes time to build thrust, achieving dreams, ambitions, overcoming fears and so on. We are rated based on our behavior and not on our own thoughts. Our track record proves to be the key in real life.

Life is the conflict between these two lives:

We rate ourselves based on our thoughts. When we think we are trustworthy, we believe we are. In outer life, you need to prove from time to time to get an image of a trustworthy person. You can’t just think of being trustworthy and get the image. You need to score good marks to be ranked higher; you need to show results to get promoted. If idea is inner life, idea in motion is outer life. This is this conflict that makes life move as well as tear us apart.

Who are we?

We are the souls in motion of fixing the gap between our inner life and outer life. When there is a gap between what we have and what we want, we dream about it, lay plans and try to achieve it … which we call us life. So Life is all about this gap between dreams and reality. I am not talking about day dreams. When we are very serious about some specific dream, we produce a goal and this produces a gap between outer life and inner life and we spend our whole life trying to fill the gap through our actions. We try to re-create our inner life into our outer life. The more clarity you have about your inner life, it’s easier to achieve it in reality. Go paint your life filling the gaps.


With luv,
Ashok.