Alternative Wisdom

Alright, I admit it. It's a wisdom that doesn't exist.

Yet.

The million dollar question is simply this: What is the elixir of life?

In a world teeming with problems, we have no answers. Medicine slowly provided answers, but not definitive answers. It solved one problem and exacerbated the other. It must be a self preservation act of some sort. So prolific that one is compelled to ask what the answers were before the question was posed. So, at that moment, encapsulating the debate of the efficacy of drugs, and collateral damage, came the influx of alternative therapy. Alternative medicine, alternative exercise, alternative lifestyles, and to top it all, alternative wisdom!

Now that I have given validity to my cause, I'll tell you what's wrong with conventional wisdom. For example, it's all very well for people to advise us on how to deal with situations, but does it ever work in real life? I mean, when people tell you to breathe in, breathe out, keep calm, what does it really mean? Isn't it just another way of saying, "Go on, bottle it up, and two weeks later, when you can't handle it anymore, E-X-P-L-O-D-E!"

In my world of alternative wisdom, I would never prescribe that. I'd say, "Get a punch bag, get furious, get it out of your system." Mind you, I'd deliver this message in the calmest possible way. No point having a heart attack over some stranger, is there? That too, a stranger who doesn't even know how to react to his own problems. No chance of First Aid there!

Yep, my advice would definitely verge on the unconventional. Vent out your steam. Get rid of that anger. Surely, it's the best approach? It's got to be much healthier in the long run. Oh, and talking of running, why don't you just run it off? It may be three miles, a ten mile run, or even a marathon. Depends on your anger withholding capacity. It's all about anger mismanagement, and the granularity at which you want to micromanage it. You'll be familiar with this concept if you've spent years incarcerated by the shackles of corporate serfdom. The best way out is out. Hey, I'm only thinking laterally here. Life is not like old times. We have to try harder. Nothing comes neatly packaged anymore. The answer is no longer in the box. You'll have to learn to think outside the box, and while you're at it, redesign the box!

That's my suggestion, and I do hope it works. Hope? I use the term loosely, because hope is fast fading from the dictionary of Alternative Wisdom. Hope is now a time waster's terminology. Say you want that fantastic job you once had. Don't sit around waiting for it. Do something about it. Don't hope. Hope is the thing that messes us up! It prolongs the path to achievement. Keeps us chasing that mirage of magic... and the thing about magic is that it can never be recreated. All the time you try to recreate old magic you lose the chance of new miracles.

There are no handbooks. No set rules. No way of knowing right from wrong. Don't think you're going to get a flash of divine intervention. It'll be divine interference, more like. All those mixed signals and warped wavelengths.

The best thing to do is to know what you want and go for it.