NECESSITY&READINESS continued

IF and only if somehow at some point we realize or get feel a glimpse of " life has to have much more than this" , "there must be more to it than meets the eyes", "i am living a life of borrowed dreams", "there must be something much bigger much better to pursue and live for some higher purpose some better aim" we may feel the need for that something called INTEGRITY.

THIS glimpse of looking out for personal satisfaction along with social accomplishment (or just a deep urge for personal satisfaction) can occur to us in two ways.

1. intelligence
2. suffering

INTELLIGENCE
THIS happens when we look around us with open eyes we look into the lives of people around us.people who are constantly telling us what to do and what not to we look into their lives keenly ,closely and at length(not just superficially, hastily&at just a moment or two ) and try to find out "is this person happy?" , "is he contented ?", "is he joyful and at ease with himself?", if not why then should i follow him .His ideology his belief could not give him any joy , any fulfillment what good it would be to me then?
we closely,keenly and at length (with both rewind and fast forward ) analyse the lives of people we idolize and question "no doubt he/she has achieved (socially) all that i wish to in future but how has his / her life been all this while during this journey?" , "what kind of life he lived to get to this point?" and "what kind of life is he living now?","am i willing to follow the similar path?" and most importantly "is it all worth all this?".
These questions lead us deeper and deeper within our own selves and bring us face to face with US the real ME NOT the borrowed ME. and it is then that the necessity for INTEGRITY arises.

GETTING STARTED

well if integrity was such a panacea then why does every one not have it and live and enjoy life to its fullest ?
answer to this logical question is necessity and readiness

NECESSITY
Necessity is the mother of invention and not just invention it has become the sole fuel driving us to do whatever we do. necessity to get a degree makes us go to schools & colleges, this necessity of having a degree arises in turn out of the necessity to get a job which in turn arises from the necessity to make a living or make a name or niche in society. an extremely condensed example to illustrate how right down from kinder garden to work place via college our entire life has been necessity dependent. so where does INTEGRITY fit in in this endless list of necessity?
Here is the dilemma integrity has never been a part of any necessity list!!!! one can live his/her entire life without it. ever wondered why?

well if we closely examine our necessity drive we would find that necessity list we carry does not for ever once bother about us it is a list arising out of society to maintain & contribute to the society, that is the schools never ask you what you are interested in they teach you what they have to. colleges never bother about your dreams they give you theirs. as long as you are a doctor,engineer,accountant,lawyer.... etc etc you are useful to the society. so as soon as we develop cognizance we are handed over a "TO DO (ACHIEVE)LIST". and in fulfillment of this INTEGRITY is not a necessity.

BUT FOR OUR OWN SELVES FULFILLMENT IT IS NOT JUST A NECESSITY IT IS ALSO THE FIRST STEPPING STONE

integrity what is it?

well as the word literally means integrity is "INTEGRATING". but integrating what? and for what? (the utility value as we in todays times of marketing and business management would like to call it)

integrating ourselves and for our own betterment are the answers to the above mentioned questions . but let me just elaborate on them.

INTEGRATING OURSELVES

" oh come on what do i need to integrate here i am one person not some ten or thirty?", surprisingly we are not one person and we are nither ten or thirty we are hundreds or even more.
some examples an average student aspires to achieve the class highest while preparing for exams and suddenly is unleashed in his mind "oh come on u barely manage to pass these exams u dare to dream the highest ? go fool someone else", a professional feels he is being choked at his present position and needs to take a jump and his mind goes " come on be practical u have a family to support , bills to pay,responsibilities to discharge all these high flier jumps look good in movies they are not for real life" , a person wants to get started with his enterprise and his mind starts to howl " not every body is going to be Bill gates or Steve jobs thousands have lost everything and hit the streets trying to do the Juggernaut of entrepreneurship". well amidst all these examples one thing that is common is that the mind immediately takes an opposing stance to what we want to do or achieve.

we have become like a reflection of our own selves falling on a shattered mirror . the different shapes and curvatures of the shattered mirror pieces reflect us and the world differently and we are at a loss to find out which amongst them is the real one . that why whats beautiful today seems ugly tomorrow, whats lovely today becomes unbearable tomorrow because we choose to look into the different reflections of the singular reality in different shattered (mood) glass pieces at different times.
so integrity as a word in essence implies having a single clear inner space mirror in which we see a true picture the world and our own selves consistently.

UTILITY VALUE
that's all too obvious , an integrated inner space gives a clear vision and outlook of self & the world. this in turn leads to correct assessment of situations and persons which in turn leads to worldly success, harmonious interpersonal relationships,and an overflowing inner contentment independent of outer worldly situations. seems like too much or rather too good to be real but is one hundred percent truth.

will follow with further sharing of definitions,concepts and most importantly methods

introduction

why blog? why write and show to the world? why do this at all? well a lot of these and many more questions kept vroooooming in my mind until today this moment till i got down and sat to do this. this as in sit down and share my self. share with whom i may not know but sharing for sure and sharing with honesty and integrity. yes integrity....