Busy life...No time...pity!!!

It’s around 6:00 in the evening. As I was watching a beautiful dusk, I thought how miserable this life has become. In the journey of this life, achieving some thing or the other, we don’t have time for the things we like the most.

Perhaps, in the walks of this busy life, we have involved ourselves in this material world so much that we hardly get time for ourselves, we hardly become nostalgic, we hardly remember to thank those people who made our life a beautiful journey, in the midst of which we are standing right now.

We can easily put a man on moon, but we have trouble walking a few steps to meet a new neighbor. We can easily talk to anybody anywhere within minutes with the help of the technology, but we have trouble sitting with our parent’s for a while to discuss each other’s life. We can reach anywhere within minutes, thanks to the latest hi-fi luxurious transportation, but we don’t have time to go to library or some fun-place with our children.

When did you last have a talk with yourself? Hard to remember, isn’t it? May be, you never had a talk with yourself in the near past. Life is getting tough day by day. In this circumstance, we ought to take more time for ourselves, actually “with ourselves”. But it’s so pathetic, when we say, that we don’t have time to sit and think for our own life. When you were small, remember? You use to work whole day, as you do today. Were you getting tired earlier? You used to be full of zeal and energy till you didn’t slept, waiting for the next day to come. Being a kid, you were unaware of the word called “lethargy”.

Try to remember the first thing you saw this morning or perhaps a minute ago. You will easily be able to remember it. Now try to remember your eyes at that moment. Do you remember it? No, you won’t. You are reading this mail. Do you remember your thoughts when you started reading it? No, you won’t. Why is it so?

The mind is really a bunch of elements that makes a wonderful you. But then, many a times, we feel that many of us are inscrutable. Perhaps in that case, peep in your mind and examine your thoughts. Tell me one thing, when you are hungry, are you disturbed by the absence of food or are you disturbed by the presence of thought that you are hungry. You might think that both of them are same, but they aren’t. When you miss your lover, are you disturbed by the absence of his/her or by the presence of thought of his/her? Actually, you are disturbed because the thought is there, but he/she is not there.

I will share with you an experience of mine. One nice evening it was raining heavily and I was in my college. It was around 6:00 PM, so fortunately, the college hours had ended. When I came out from the computer lab to the ground floor, heading my way towards the bus, I saw many students and professors standing with a sarcastic face, on the entrance of the block. It was like a mob preparing to go for a fight. They were afraid to get out of the block as if, it were bullets (instead of water) that were hitting the ground from the sky. I ran, savoring the moment, towards the bus and within few minutes, I occupied one of the favorite seat of mine (the last corner seat...Ha ha ha )...

Suddenly, a thought came in my mind. How dreary are the life of those who are still standing there on the entrance of the block. I mean, you have grown up playing in the same rains. And now you are gruesome and feared by the very thought that you will get wet and damp? Why can’t people behave like a child and just savor the moment. What is so worrying in getting wet? You forgot your childhood days when you use to wait for such moments and now look at them; they are feared of their clothes getting wet, forgetting what joy would they get by dancing in the water of heavens.

Few days back, I was reading one article in India Today. The topic was “Depression in the life of Indian youth”. They wrote that suicidal case in India is increasing by 16% every year. I thought that what has happened to statistics of India Today. Perhaps, looking to the other side of the coin, what has happened to this people committing suicide? Are they so much forlorn that they want to end their life? Or this society is compelling them to do so?

As infants, we really are perfect. We are still connected to the force that created the world. But as we begin to age, we adopt fears from the world around us. We want our parents to love and adore us. So we model them and take on their fears, limiting beliefs and false assumptions so we can be more like them. It’s all done because we crave love. Who you are in the moment is not who you truly are. Rather, it’s someone you’ve become as a result of being in this world. To clear all those fears that you have assumed from the world around you, you will need to go back and explore the source of all your fears. Then you’ll have to work through them until they are no longer part of your psyche. [Taken from, “Daily Inspiration” by “Robin Sharma”]

It’s ostensible from all this that we have lost touch with our humanity. We have lost touch with our purpose. We have lost sight of the things that matter the most. [Taken from, “Who will cry? When you die?” by “Robin Sharma”]

Stop bending to the demands of social pressure at the expense of your uniqueness. When you study the lives of the world’s most successful and revered people, you will see that they did not care what other people thought of them. Rather than letting pubic opinion dictate their actions, they had the courage to let their hearts drive them. [Taken from, “Daily Inspiration” by “Robin Sharma”].

This was my soul. Thank you for taking your precious time for reading it. And sorry if I bored you.