Everything Happens for a Reason

“Everything happens for a reason.” This was the last thing that my young philosophical mind told me. I had now lost the ability to think philosophically indefinitely. This incident is something that sounds really dubious, but is absolutely real. This was after my grandfather’s death – first death in my family since my birth, and before my experiences of hearing words that weren’t said, and seeing things that weren’t there.

I used to be an obsessively compulsive and hyperactive person before this incident – and now I was calm, emotionless and fearless of death, which was sure to come. This is a really unusual entrance into the teen years of life. This was soon followed by depression, loneliness and inability to think clearly. Now, I was unable to think clearly and would fall into a lot of problems that would haunt me soon. My ‘wisdom’ was left in form of a memory only.

“Everything happens for a reason” was the best that I could remember along with a few important conclusions that my mind must have believed were important. I really wanted to get my thinking ability back, and then I embarked upon a three-year long journey to do so.

I accumulated a ‘list’ of features that a wise person would possess. This helped me organize all that I wanted to be, which was certainly better than a confusing continuum that my mind was. I organized them as ‘steps’ to gain detachment from this world. Detachment would mean peace of mind, a relief from this confusing abyss that I lived in.

My decision to organize the required information dates back only to a few weeks. I classified the research sources that I could use into three types: videos, web portals and books. I then decided to use only one resource from each category. I used Youtube to vie...

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...ents the person from being distracted by thoughts of sense objects. A person is characterized by what he thinks. It is important to have pure thoughts to attain a pure character. Efficient use of time is essential because it prevents a person from having excessive or insufficient amount of time at hand, thus preventing blocking thoughts from taking over the mind.

This was the first organized research paper I had ever made. I learnt to accumulate and organize research data into useful information. This improved my skills to manage textual resources. Besides all this, I was able to study about something that I was really interested in. This experience has shown me the way to research on topics I want to know more about. I think now I can truly say, “Everything happens for a reason.”

Works Cited

The Bhagavad Gita

Sadhguru

Shri Atmanand, The Jain Ideologies