Go Against The Gravity

Took a taxi back home just now with my colleagues. While on the road, the topic of a recent case of a passenger who couldn’t get on bus #190 until after thirteen buses was brought up.

I was saying that someone in the Land & Transport Authority (LTA) should be analysing the situation and coming up solutions to resolve this, the taxi driver thought otherwise. He defended strongly saying, “The problem has been there for so many years, nobody can do anything about it. What can they do? They have no solution that’s why they are asking the public to give them a solution instead. It’s like this. No choice, we have to live with it”. 

I’m not a believer of “no choice”; even taking a little step to improve the situation is a choice. However, the taxi driver hung on strongly to his “no choice, cannot be done, its part of living” beliefs.

Relating to Bazi or destiny analysis, I do come across different people going through different stages of life of 生老病死苦 – living, aging, illness, death and misery. People who suffered from illnesses like cancer, incurable diseases, dying, bankruptcy,  jail, marriage problem with spouse having an affair and cheated the person of his/her life savings, etc. 

 

We are all human, and the price of living is to go through these stages. Some people labeled their sufferings as Karma. You can say all of your sufferings are from your previous life’s karma, or the current one. I call it “Homework”.

These are just Life’s homework given to you. They are given to you probably because you didn’t finish it in your previous life. You chose the easy way out that is to end it. It is like rebooting the system but with the same challenge in the game at different level. Or you didn’t finish it because you didn’t know how to get out of the maze. You know going into certain route will bring you misery, but you still go into it and can’t get out. 

  

That is why sometimes Life is so interesting. It will just keep testing you with different challengers, sometimes the same problems repeatedly to test whether you have understood the game.

Relating back to the taxi driver, if you are like him keep circulating in the same path and saying that nothing can be done, you can’t do anything, accepting it as life, then you are also not helping yourself to get out of the maze.

Recently, I deliberately went to see the show “Gravity” alone and I was glad I watched it. In fact, I urge everyone to watch it. The moral of the story is not new, but it is just putting across with in a different scenario and actors. Sandra Bullock was caught in a situation that she thought she couldn’t handle anymore and decided to end her life. Just right before she ran out of oxygen, she realized actually she had not ran out of options. She knew she was going to die anyway, it was a matter of now or fight to prolong it. And then she went on fighting her way out of whatever obstacles threw to her and she made it alive.

You might say, there’s only a movie. Well, like I said you can always choose to take the easy way out and reboot your system early. But if you just hang on and persevere, you might cross over to the next level. And this level of the “game” is not tough for you anymore because you went through it; you know how to deal with it.

In Bazi or destiny telling, it is always about knowing yourself and your situations (Awareness) and what you can do to change yourself positively (Mental/Attitude) follow by actions (behavioural change). Sometimes you can’t change what’s happening around you, but you can choose to change within yourself.

So stop circulating at the maze, start to get out.