Some things

that I have realized today.

• Human beings, though have formed allegedly great societies, do not seem to be good at having a long term vision. Especially the mass Indians. Whatever they do is only for short term benefits and almost always leading to long term sorrow/pain to either themselves or others. That is the reason why, with only basic human instincts, it is difficult to sustain given the fact that a man can do a lot more in this modern age than in the stone age where is more challenged.
  
• Practice makes a man perfect. Look at the timing with which you do it. Look at the neat way in which you drive your bike. It is all just practice. If one keeps on practicing, then it will make the man indeed perfect. We don't sustain practice because we want instant gratification. Discipline is necessary to transcend basic human desires in order to achieve a much bigger feat which only a disciplined person can see better.
  
• While we are changing our habits, our minds give a lot of resistance. A hell lot of resistance in fact. Either we can succumb unconsciously or we can be conscious and endure the pain in opposing our neural network signals. Again, discipline and consciousness is necessary to do this. The moment we lose consciousness, we will be doing what we were doing. Also only through consciousness (of the fact that enduring the pain is the only way to break habit), things can be fun. It is a challenge to ourselves. We are fighting against ourselves.
  
• We are given a fixed time on this planet - say 70 years. How much of ourselves we can expose, how much of learning we can do and how much we can achieve is very important. We can either live unconsciously in the current societies with all the matrices shown by it or we can live consciously within our matrix. Yes, everything is a matrix. Instead of getting influenced by other matrices, its much better if we can be in our matrix itself. That will give long term happiness - of having achieved the things that we always wanted to.