the victim under control

An old friend of mine was the victim of an impressive accident when he was riding a moped bike: he was overtaking a big trunk on the right, the trunk did a weird move and my friend fell and got caught by the back wheel of the trunk, and both the moped and himself were dragged on the road for around 15 meters.

On the floor, he was so stuck he could not get out by himself, even if the bike was not so heavy. People around were in doubt to move him because he had lost his helmet; he wanted to should at them to take him out, but he was in bad pain and he could hardly speak. Eventually they released him and while the ambulance was coming he was looking at his leg and wildly wondering if he would be able to move it again.

He would have killed the lorrydriver at that moment, "it was such a big trunk in a not so wide street!, what was he doing there?, and what was the effing manouver he did?"; some days later, the driver went to the hospital to visit and they made peace, although my friend did not like the guy, "not somebody I would get drunk with!". Actually the driver was a member of his club, he had joined that same year, when they had promoted to the spanish 'second B' category. But the diver had not had the chance to watch my friend playing. And he would not anymore.

The recovery was long and painful, the full thing took around a year, and my friend was 17 years old. He wanted to brake the plaster into pieces and start exercising the leg, and afterwards wanted to start walking, then running, and climbing mountains. However there were many things he would not be able to do anymore. "What if the accident had not happened?", he would say, "how far would I have gone in playing football?"

He didnt like studying, or arts; however nobody was going to stop him from getting whatever he wanted to.

And now, so many years later, he puts the icing on the cake of his life with his appointment as the president of his football club, the one he used to play for.



Propositions:
- my friend was overtaking a big trunk on the right in a street which was "not so wide"
- the lorrydriver was "somebody he would not get drunk with"
- when he was 16 years old, he was playing for a 3rd category football team
- the team promoted to "2nd B" and he would not play so often anymore
- ...


My friend is a prick, and the story is silly. Does the victim take control? Does he get anything he wants? And does it mean he is under control? What is "under control"? Is it a feeling, an opinion?

do it now!

There's many people seeking. Some of them struggle to learn how to stand on their heads, or to sit straight and crossed-legged. Others just put on fancy clothes and talk a lot, but most are genuine, why would they not be? And not all of them base themselves on eastern philosophies.

Anyhow, probably all of them would agree in one thing: they are in the process of learning, of improving, of making themselves better so that someday they will obtain what they are looking for. But, why does it have to be in the future, why not now?


As an example, I'll take something completelly unrelated: world hunger. Everybody is more or less concerned about that huge problem. Myself, I give away some money every year to some organizations which are supposed to do something about the subject. Little money it is. And I think about it from time to time, although is not the first thought that crosses my mind every morning.

I guess some people are less concerned, donate no money, they woud think it is not fair that people are starving, but realisticly they've figured there's not much to do about it.

On the other hand, there's a few who devote themselves and their lifes to the problem; what about those? Do those think the solution is at their reach? Probably not, more the contrary. But they don't get depressed, they just try to do everything they can to make a small contribution, to help the people of the area wherever it is they've travelled to. And it is awesome.


It is not only they are morally superior (they are, to me); also they look at a huge problem with no visible solution and they decide they want to do everything they can and they do it now.


From J Krishnamurti:
"Do you actually need time to be free of greed? I am taking that as an example [...] You are used to think you do. When I say I will get over it, that will is time [...] So the mind has become accostumed to the idea of psychological time -tomorrow, or many tomorrows."

And many many paragraphs later, after he brilliantly dismantles the idea of psychological time,
"So where we are? Where are you with regard to what you have heard, what you have learned, what you have seen for yourself? It is just mere words for you to carry? Or is there a deep fundamental change so that you are free of all your problems, free of fear? [...]"
Which applies not only to his lecture, but to everything you have heard, you have learned, you have seen for yourself.

Let's forget for a moment about world hunger and about a world free of greed -no matter I have not done anything about those. Am I just carrying words? Have I done anything?