Stochastic Probability Theory of Life

 “Every moment is a moment of choice, every hour is destiny“.

Stochastic Probability theory – It means that the outcome of an event cannot be determined as future events are randomly decided; a good example is stock market and currency exchange rate fluctuation.
Some times we are faced with “catch 22” situation, or ‘dharma sangadam’ situations, or helpless situations. The happenings or occurrence of events are just beyond our control.  Choice of any alliterative available to us may be risky, dangerous or de-motivating. We think the pros and cons of every alternative, seek advice from friends and peer groups, guided by our or others past experiences, or we remain mute and inactive,  unable to decide a course of action. We foresee good /bad results, success or failure, hurt or grief, and find it unable to move from the present moment. We feel we have reached a dead end.

The following story that I came across while surfing randomly, gives a different meaning for making a choice that may be different and unique.

THE STORY:
In a remote forest, a pregnant deer is about to give birth to a baby. It finds a remote grass field near by a river and slowly goes there thinking it would be safe. As she moves slowly, she gets labor pain…. at the same moment, dark clouds gather around that area and lightning starts a forest fire.  Turning left she sees a hunter who is aiming an arrow from a distance. As she tries to move towards right, she spots a hungry lion approaching towards her.

What can the pregnant deer do ….as she is already under labor pain?
What do you think will happen?
Will the deer survive?
Will it give birth to a calf?
Will the calf survive?
Will everything be burnt by the forest fire ?

That particular moment:
Can the deer go left? – Hunter’s arrow is pointing
Can she go right? – Hungry male lion approaching
Can she move up? – Forest fire
Can she move down?  –  Fierce river
Answer:  She does nothing. She just focuses on giving birth to a new LIFE.

The sequence of events that happens at that fraction of a second (moment) are as follows:
1. In a spur of MOMENT  …a lightning  strikes (already it is cloudy ) and blinds the eyes of the Hunter.
2. At that MOMENT, he releases the arrow missing and zipping past the deer. At that MOMENT the arrow hits and injures the lion badly.
3. At that MOMENT, it starts to rain heavily and puts out the forest fire.
4. At that next MOMENT, the deer gives birth to a healthy calf.

In our MOMENT of CHOICE and we have to deal with such negative thoughts always.
Some thoughts are so powerful they overpower us and make us clueless.
Let us not decide anything in a hurry.
Let’s think of our self as the pregnant deer with the ultimate happy ending.
Anything can happen in a MOMENT in this life.
If you are religious, superstitious, atheist, agnostic… or whatever… you can attribute this MOMENT as sublime, divine intervention, faith, sudden luck, chance (serendipity), coincidence… or a simple ‘dont know’. We all feel the same. But, whatever one may call it, I would see the priority of the deer in that given moment was to giving birth to a baby…. because LIFE IS PRECIOUS.

Keep that faith and hope within you always.

“Stochastic Probability theory” of Life is unique to a particular individual where the outcomes of our moments are non-deterministic as future events are determined by random probability distributions that cannot be predicted.