All my life I have worked on the dictum: Go with the flow. Drop resistance and begin to accept events as they are. The wise call it surrender. However, doing it is not as easy as it sounds. When events unfold the way you don't want them to, the first reaction is to resist. Though the mind knows the outcome, still it puts up struggle. How can it allow something to go by without putting up effort. After all, making sincere efforts is ingrained in us. Didn't Krishna also sermonize in Gita to focus on efforts and leave the results in his hands?
The critical question that baffles me is when to give up and when to put in more efforts. There is something called tipping point too, when you put in an ounce of extra effort and voila results happen.
Going back to go with the flow, in life, a lot is preordained. Destiny beckons and decides a lot many details for you. In fact, accepting it, is the best thing for such moments. In midst of turmoil, it is difficult to accept events without giving a good fight. And what is the outcome?
When you resist the flow of life, your efforts are frustrated. The peace is missing and somewhere things don't fall in place.
How to transcend it? Accept. There will be days in life when things will not go as decided. What has to go wrong will go wrong. Does that mean, we stop making an effort to salvage things from not going wrong? No/Yes.
We may try but the outcome is not going to satisfy us. Accepting it with grace will be the only feasible solution.
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