Sometimes without warning things just happen. We are often unable to prepare for it, let alone prevent it. Some circumstances leave us pondering if there is a God, spirit or higher rationale that we are unable to understand. Circumstances - What are they? What is the reality of circumstances?
Nice philosophical question, Aspire IMHO we have to distinguish between some kinds of circumstances. There are such circumstances which seems to be flukes. There are others which seems to be some kind of "destiny" or "doom", or "blessing" or "curse". And on the other hand there is a saying: "Energy follows attraktion", or the term of "selffulfilling prophecy". So to answer the question: it´s needed to define which kind of "circumstances" we´re discussing, I guess, or not? Blessings and greetings Siat
Circumstances are mostly consequences of our decisions.:coffee Ofcourse the decision could be a conscious, subconscious, idiotic, intuitive, voluntary, or an involuntary one. Letting ourselves be in a bad circumstance is still a consequence of our decision to be in a wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people! All in all a bad decision. Some call it fate.. I call it 'my decision' so I can own up to my mistakes. The reality of circumstance is 'the Aftermath' regardless of how much instrumental you were, in letting the circumstance creep on you.
Adhrishye - meaning unforseen. Basically, I am talking providence. I find satisfaction and relief believing that it is not in my hands; that since it is not in the hands of limited thinking humans - it cannot be influenced by petty things; that it is just and exactly right every time; even though I may not feel great when something bad may happen to me unexpectedly; I may also choose not to notice how bad things happen to everybody because at those very moments good things are happening to me; Because I will freely admit - my thinking is fairly limited. I can however appreciate that just because I don't see it does not mean the bigger picture does not exist. This does not mean I get a free ride. I feel I need to do what I can do and quit worrying or trying to control what I can't. This is my opinion, two cents worth...blah..blah...covering my backside...fine print...etc. etc.
A decade ago..I would have said..a Result of ur Actions. Garbage in Garbage out kinda thing...Now not so sure.May be I am growing old... There are very many things I can control Most dont even matter to me all that much ..But ironically the ones that matter to me the most are the ones that I cannot control and it sure scares the hell out of me. I still do my darn -est best but I know somewhere deep down...I cannot really steer the course of life and that it will unravel itself to me as circumstances when the time is right and pray that I have the strength to face it.
Thanks Siat for your response. But, circumstances, what are they? I do understand the definition of "circumstances" from an expression of language prespective, but what I was trying to undertsand is that the same circumstance is viewed in different ways by different people, so is there a single reality to it?
Thank you for your response MST and for linking "circumstances" to "our decision making". Is "circumstances" due to our decision making or is it "circumstances" that make us take certain decisions?
Thanks ASG for your response. Made me think about this quote. “Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.” My initial question came also because, I believe, life is all about circumstances. Learning how to deal with them effectively leads to critical personal development and growth.
Good morning, Aspire Hmm... Well, me too =^^= But I guess, it´s the trouble with translations :biglaugh I´ve to translate "circumstance" in German, so that I´m able to share my thoughts with You and the other members. Though the difficulty is, is depending on which translation I choose, the point of expression of language perspective may change. I don´t know if you know the difficulty when You translate Hindi (or another language) into English? That´s why I wrote, that we have to differ between "kinds" of circumstances, ´cause the definiton and the point of view may change. Ehm... Am I able to express, what I mean? So my answer to Your question is: No, there isn´t a single reality. In my own forum we call this kind of circumstance, "reality tunnel" =^^= This tunnel may be different between You, me, DNM, mstrue and justanother girl, but maybe there may be similarities. It depends on our moral concepts, ideas, our cultural backgrounds, the religious conceivabilities and instructions, also on our different educations from our parents, in school and so on, and on many, many other things. Our reality tunnels may have some intersections, but also interferences and differences. Everything what´s happend to us we´re judging out of this point of our "reality tunnel". So imho it´s not possible to have a single reality for all kinds of circumstances. And IF there are similar percipiences of any circumstances, than because there is a coincidence in our reality tunnels Greetings and blessings Siat
Good Morning Siat!...though its night for me. I really appreciate your effort to translate from German to English and respond back. I know its not easy. Your concept of "reality tunnel" is very interesting indeed. I also believe, that it is not possible to have a single reality for all kinds of circumstances. But sometimes this leads me to "what is reality" and then I kind of get lost...:bonk You mentioned your own forum on reality tunnel, can I know which is this? Can you pls share? Thanks
