In our routine morning to work, be it in a bus or a car, we will have the same vision of things around us moving towards the back as we charge forward to our office. The same physics happen as we hed towards home. We could be so used to the view that it may even become a blind spot i.e. we don’t even notice it’s there again.
Most of us know that those are the ‘passing images’ and they do not belong to us. We will not cry because we lose it nor we crave their existence. However, many of us are not aware that life itself is a journey like a car trip and the views surrounding us are the events and people that we come across. The difference with the actual car trip is that we do crave for that view to stay and we do cry when those views are gone!
When we have a kid, the kid merely comes to the world through the mother and into our life. However, it is actually still a different car trip. It so happens that your kid’s car is moving next to you and hence you see your child as the view. However, we tend to think that the view belongs to us and crave for it to stay that way. The kid’s car next to us are next to us as long as the factors remain i.e. it could be a traffic jam, it could be two cars waiting at the traffic light or two cars parked together. But we need to know that once the factors are gone, a new view appears. And it will be so as long as our car is moving.
As for the emotional state, we must also know that a lot of events that we get involved in are also passing moments. We may be exceptionally angry with a subject, but that subject itself is also a passing moment just like the view from our car window. If we start to see that all these negative events are passing moments (i.e. very momentary), we may then ask ourselves whether it is worth the anger for such passing moments.
So, next time whether you are in a car trip, at a Japanese fastfood restaurant with the conveyor belt, air plane or jogging, remember that our view around us is merely a passing moment. What can we do? Treasure it if it’s good, don’t over-react if it’s bad because it is another passing moment.
