Life’s lessons can come from anywhere and anytime and from anybody!! Some lessons are like a bolt of thunder and then the thundering silence!! A lesson that made a lot of noise in the mind leaves you in a thoughtful mood. These thoughts don’t leave you and keep ringing in the mind every so often!!

This was a lesson learnt from Mr. D.

A procedure in the ankle that had undergone a recent surgery due to a fracture, has resulted in me yet again, moving with the help of wheelchair and walker; at home.

With the heat blazing down, Mr. D is so comfortable lying on the floor; wherever he wants to – across a doorway, between a chair and the dining table, near the front door etc etc.. He would drop himself and stretch out. If I tell him to move, it falls on deaf ears. At times, he will lift his head to look at me for a few seconds and go back to sleep. It is like him saying, “You want to go to another area of the house, you figure out your way. I am not getting up from here.” This is fine, if I can walk my way through.. With moving in the wheelchair, it is a different story altogether!!

A few days back, when he was lying on the floor all streched out, there was no space to move the wheelchair. Called out to him to move, didn’t work. When I wheeled the wheelchair close to him, I thought he would reflexively move, in the fear that the wheels would run over his leg. Not even a flicker of a movement. I sat there for a few minutes, moving the wheelchair slightly back and forth. Still not a flicker of a movement.

It suddenly occured to me that he knew that I will not move the wheels over his legs. I am not sure if he would think that I would not injure or hurt him. That’s very inferential and I am not sure if dogs think on such lines. I was though very sure that he knew the wheels will not go over any inch of his leg.

This then led to a flurry of thoughts.

Is that a trust that I won’t wheel the wheelchair anymore close to him?

Is that a strong belief that I will not do anything that disturbs him?

Is that a complete surrender to me as a human being, that will make him not react reflexively?

Surrender to someone comes from a deep trust and belief in that person; that whatever they do is for our own good.

What Mr. D was able to do, can we do it?

Can we do it with anyone human being or with god / supreme power / universe (however one may call it as)?

Can we trust / believe and thereon surrender unto them?

Mr. D is an animal with 5 senses and his nature is to react; but he didn’t – not with me and not then or not on any other day after that. The reflex then is to trust and beleive? Completely surrendered himself to that trust and belief?

Each of us being humans have 6 senses, with the sixth sense helping us to know something, without using the other 5 senses.

We should be able to also surrender to the trust and belief that what is happening to us, is for some good to emerge from it?

– We think we need to surrender to a person / god / universe / supreme power..

– That’s where we are wrong. We need to surrender to our trust and our belief.

– When we do that, we are surrendering to ourselves.

– It is like going with the flow of what’ is happening.

– If the flow comes across an obstacle, it either goes over it or around it; and either way, the flows keeps moving and we move with the flow.

Trust , believe and surrender!!

What is meant to happen, will happen!!

What is meant to flow, will flow!!

Everything that happens, is for you to happen!!!

Trust, believe and surrender!!