Positivity

Only when one has undergone the period of negativity and melancholy that one understands and realizes the value of positivity. It is not a state that can be forced by an action of will or determination. One can not practice to remain positive and try and struggle to maintain that state. It comes and goes by its own sweet will. But then, our estimating and valuing it becomes meaningless, if we are merely puppets in the hands of destiny! Not really! Thought it is true that we can not by causality bring about that state at our command, but we, by knowing the inevitable shifting and cyclic changes in the states may learn to be calm and composed when we are not enjoying that positive state of mind and this calmness will qualify us for its next visitation. Our searching for the causes, many times makes us miss the obvious and most simple facts and keep us in perpetual state of struggle. The moment we shift gears, sometimes unconsciously,  while taking bath, taking a walk, or doing something routine quite mechanically, it suddenly comes upon us. The mystery unravels when we are not trying to solve it. May be our being unaware provides it with the necessary environment to work out its own entanglement. Now, knowing this mystery can we apply this as a strategy to come out of our depression, everytime? Then, again it becomes the work of our conscious will and the ploy is defeated. So knowledge can only know its limitations. It can identify, describe and diagnose the problem, but as soon as we try to apply the solution, the problem shifts or simply escapes our grip. May be it seems to get solved at that level but appears at some other place assuming a different dimension, requiring different diagnosis and different approach. The only way, this perpetual machine of problems can cease to function is by our ceasing to pay attention to it and our stopping to try to solve it. That is by climbing to a higher level of awareness.