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We humans are a byproduct of our habits and core values; which we pick as we grow. Most of them are inculcated in us by our parents, relatives and at school and some we absorb from our interaction with our friends and internet. Today I want to share with you my opinion on one such value; to DISSOLVE. We all possess this ability to dissolve in some capacity; but do we practise it consciuosly?

During my graduation in chemistry class, I loved to dissolve and dilute chemical agents to produce new colourful solutions with the release of smoke and fumes; it felt like a magic trick. One such experiments we performed as students was adding base to acids to produce salts. When you add metal oxides or metal carbonates to acids it produces flammable hydrogen and salts. To breakdown it down in simple words; when material “A” is added to material “B” either A dissolves in B or B get’s dissolved in A to produce “C” with the release of heat, so it can be written as [A+B=C + Heat]. The intrinsic properties of both the materials involved in the reaction are lost and a neutral substance “salt” is produced. This salt could be produced because either of the materials or compounds involved in the reaction were ready to get dissolved. This little chemistry experiment has given me an important life lesson, which I will be sharing here with you all here. Imagine if there were a flow chart for emotions in the same fashion as the above mentioned chemistry experiment:- for example if you want to be “HAPPY” then one must add “willingness to let go” to “ego” until “ego” dissolvesitself completely in the “willingness to let go” and what you get is PURE HAPPINESS.

It is the ability to get dissolved or to dissolve is at discussion here today. Just the other day I read very famous quote by Bruce Lee: “Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup….”; here he speaks about fluidity of water and encourages us all to be like water mentally.  If each one of us by virtue and actions behave fluid like water, where we allow ourselves to bend to really understand te situations and respond to them with a composure, there will be no conflicts.  The water by its nature is fluid because of its ability to DISSOLVE. More than 55% of any average adult human body is water, our brain is the most water rich organ of the body with whooping 75% of it made up of water. So if not for water we would not be alive. Nutrients necessary to carry out bodily functions are transported in dissolved form within our body and water is the main constituent of this transportation system. Without the ability of water to dissolve there would not have been the life supporting transporting solution and hence no life on earth. Also if water hadn’t been able to dissolve nutrients contained in soil; plants wouldn’t have been able to absorb them and hence the cycle of life would not have been in progress.   To be more specific if not for the ability of water to accept to dissolve other constituents in it our bodily functions would not be possible.

Readiness to be dissolved is one of the qualities to be sort for in relationships; whether we want to befriend a person or a life partner or as having a new colleague on the team, at work. The amount of readiness one shows to be dissolved in a relationship lays the foundation of how strong the relation will be. For example while choosing a companion for life one must allow the other person to flow, to be at ease, to be fluid; emotional and mentally. We should be ready to accept them as they come, hence be ready to get dissolved. In this age of tech and social media, data on absolutely anyone is freely available; a random Google search makes it is easy to shape an opinion and be judgmental towards people in our life. As Mary. T. Lathrap rightly said in her poem “Judge Softly”(1895) to ‘Walk a mile in His Moccasins’ or ‘Walk a mile in his shoes’ is to show compassion, kindness and empathy to all. To do so we as humans must possess the capacity to dissolve, our ego, our presumptions, our prejudices. We truly need to let go; if we are to attain an unbiased fruitful relation.

A very common analogy usually used about how clearer a reflection of our self we can see in the mirror is directly proportional to the cleanliness or clarity of the mirror itself. The more clearer the mirror = means better our image; being able to dissolve ones preconceived notions lays a foundation for a clearer understanding of the self. Hence when the mirror is clearer we can have a better reflection on self. This in turn makes us a better human being at handling relations whether in personal, private and professional life. Hence DISSOLVE…. to experience a newer dimension of what life has to offer.

These are some of my thoughts about DISSOLVE and why each one of us should nurture and practice this ability to let go, to accept in some capacity. Until next week.

Thank you.