Of inherent inadequacies

Failures share space with success. Our lives today, center on the fact that some aspect of our self claims total responsibility of failure or success as its own. This triggers most people to aim higher and reach greater heights. Failures are treated as lessons to help success. While positive perspective on failure is generally encouraged, is this common? What is the alternative? Inspiring stories relate how someone gained from failures only to achieve greater heights. However, the uninspired have different stories to relate.

This aspect of self which realizes pleasure from its success also kills itself with each failure. This aspect of self considers it is totally responsible for failure also. This inadequacy gets inherently evident. The natural shadow of this inadequacy creates an image of total adequacy. Our self wants this totally adequate persona to be perceived by the World. At the same time, it is so much easier to project our inadequacies on someone else. Personifying our inadequacy seems to be an easy way out.

Anger, hate and violence ensue. The thought of killing our inherent inadequacy raises these emotions in us. The intensity of our desire to kill this self is the intensity of our hate and anger. To deal with anger, we need to look for this root. We need to figure out what it is in us that we hate so much. However, very few people even try this route. Looking for solutions by hurting others is ineffective. Acknowledging inherent inadequacies is the first step. There is enough knowledge in us to deal with this. How will we ever deal with something, if we don’t even acknowledge its presence…