Wisdom Munches 20: Loss process?

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and it’s ironic that as people become more and more westernized while at one level actions do lead to results but if we could mathematically express actions actions are not really expressed mathematically but just as a metaphor so suppose we put 10 units of effort we would expect 10 units of result I studied this much, I expect to get this much marks now sometimes it may happen differently sometimes we may put 10 units of effort and we might get only 1 unit of result and sometimes we might put 1 unit of effort and we might get 10 units of result in general we remember these times more we remember and resent those times I worked so hard I didn’t get the results but if we are honest with ourselves we can see that there are times when what we might say we got a windfall we got some good fortune we did some effort but maybe 100 other people did the same effort that we did but we got some extra result so now how do we make sense of this some people observe such events and they start thinking that there is no cause effect principle in the world everything is just chaotic and that is when they start becoming disheartened they may become depressed we all will face loss in life it could be loss of health, loss of wealth loss of a loved one loss of some things that we loved whatever it is we all face loss now when we process loss there are different degrees at which we process loss so at a basic level we may say I have lost I have lost this particular thing and that is more or less objective we have to acknowledge it, we have to be in tune with reality but a little worse would be I am lost not only did I lose something I just don’t know where should I go, what should I do now but the most damaging interpretation of a loss could be I am a loser now once we start interpreting things in this way that can lead to severe mental health problems we can get into depression, severe depression sometimes people can even become suicidal if I am a loser what is the point instead of trying well we are not losers yes we may have lost and we may say I tried so much in this particular area I didn’t get the result I tried so much in that area I didn’t get the result I tried so much in that area I didn’t get the result well it could be that we are going through a phase where we are giving 10, 10, 10 and we are just getting 1, 1, 1 but this phase is not permanent ok I have lost right now I am going through a difficult phase and this phase will end so what happens with respect to life is that once we start seeing things from a bigger perspective that this when we are giving 10 and getting 1 what that means is from destiny at that time minus 9 is coming and when we are giving 1 and getting 10 that means from destiny plus 9 is coming so sometimes we may be going through a bad phase in our life and the actions that we do they it seems something from our past is subtracting from what we are doing on the other hand there are phases when we do certain things and something beyond us seems to be working in our favor we do a little but we get a lot things start falling in place, things start working well so this is where destiny is working so when we talk about destiny it is not about just accepting everything is destined, nothing is in my control no our actions do matter no doubt about it but how much the actions matter or at least how much the actions will lead to manifested results that can vary