An uncertain start...

Don't know where to start...

I've collected a list of thoughts on small bits of paper. I usually write them down as they come. I found this immediate noting-down extremely important. You're busy buttering bread or slicing beef or shredding chicken and you get struck with a thought, like say for example - How to Own EVERYTHING In The World!!! And you get thrilled at the logic of the supporting thoughts that flood your mind or should I say your heart, for the thought is felt rather than imagined, and if you don't write it down it can disappear into thin air - completely.

You know you thought about something very good but you just can't remember what it was.

So from these pieces of paper that I have with me let me tell you about this one:

How To Own Everything!

When someone gets something they want they feel happy. They feel pleased with themselves and often, pleased with the world too. A new microwave, a new t.v., a mobike or car, stuff like this tends to make people feel happy. A good performance by the child in school makes a parent happy.

So suppose person X buys a new t.v. and feels a Y amount of happiness because he is the owner of a brand new 500 channel television?

WHAT IF we also could feel the same amount of happiness for that person, would it mean we too are like the owners of the that t.v. as we feel the same amount of happiness?

Yes, we don't have the t.v. with us but if you look carefully, what the person who has bought the t.v. has, is joy, and that is something we can have too. All we got to do is be happy for him or her.

At first this may seem a bit nonsensical but after a while the feeling of feeling good for another's good fortune becomes even better than actually owning any particular possession. And since one is able to feel happy because another is happy, when we ourselves get something we want, we get doubly happpy.

Don't you think by sharing in the happiness of another we can literally own what they have?

There is another side to this though; just as ready as we are to share in the happiness of another we should also be ready to share in any unhappiness too.

So if the brand new 500 channel television breaks down a few days after being bought and the dealer does not honor the guarantee we should feel the same frustration as if the t.v. was our own. (Not feel happy now!)

I believe owning everything is just a matter of truly sharing the feelings of one another - the good and the not-so good.

What Say You?

Thanks for reading,

Please comment / criticise / whatever, everything leads to my continued education and I thank you for your opinions in advance.

P.S. anything and everything said in these post is on an ATM basis;
ATM = Applies To Me. Anything that has to be done first Applies To Me.