bph: Same

I was choosing my clothes for work one of the days last week, and like most times, I kept keeping nicer clothes away for another special day.

The way my mind was differentiating between clothes stayed with me and reminded me of a proverb or dialogue from a Kannada movie that my friend had shared with me when I was in college. It means something similar to the following -

Our whole life is divided into 3 phases,

first phase, where we feel I am great and the world/everyone else is bad

second phase, I am bad and the world/everyone else is great

third phase, I am great and the world/everyone is great

We all know that the third phase is the ideal phase - there is no differentiation, no hierarchy - we treat ourselves, our loved ones and strangers the same!

We treat all emotions the same way.

We treat happiness and sadness alike.

There is no winning and losing.

The list can go on and on. But this differentiation is so innate in our nature. It starts from the smallest of small things like wearing nice clothes on special days and spreads across various things in our lives. I hope we start differentiating lesser and lesser.

Here's to I am great and the world is great phase for all of us