View from the Mountaintop

For several years I have been maintaining this blogsite. During all those times most of what I have posted here are either rants on how I wish I could be a writer plus my inability to rise to the occasion. If there are some flashes of wisdom or subject worthy to be written, I could only count them by my fingers.

The point I’m driving at is that I still have to write about life, what I know and think about life; what for heaven’s and my spirit’s sake did I learn in this huge jungle of a classroom called real world.

To the intellectually challenged people, those whose philosophy about life begins and ends on how to make their wallets thicker, they whose lives are run by practical reason, I usually say to them – half for the reason on how narrow they think and half for my propensity to play the mystic – that I have sat like a buddha on a mountaintop watching the world below.

What then did I see and learn while I was on the mountaintop?

I would want to start with our use of word, this basic and necessary communication tool to interact with the people around us. Yet, on the second thought, what I want to relay with the readers is all written in the book of Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements.

If one would read this book, everything that I learned on how we use our words is summed up here. It also summarizes in a general way the life that I have long been observing in homes, communities and work places.

It seems everybody is casting poison spells through words to their love ones, neighbours and co-workers. Most of the times he does it without knowing that he is doing it. An angry person can just flares up and say the most insidious words against anyone around him. For us this behaviour is normal.

And what would be more normal than the act of back-biting against anyone. I have long observed that if one could not get on the person that has slighted him or someone he envies, he would recourse his anger to get even by attacking the person through words he spreads around their community or work places.

This back-biting tells more of the person doing it. First it betrays his feeling of inferiority, envy and anger. But by trying to back-bite someone, he gets the illusion that he is impeccable and way above the person he is attacking. He feels superior.

This kind of behaviour is long considered normal in our world, or the real world as some would say. And I would not want to wash my hands and tell that I have sometime, one way or another, have used my words through this kind of behaviour.

Anyway, unfair and unhealthy as it is, I would say this usually is what is happening around us.