Friday, 3 August 2012
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Grown Ups!!
Life J
We all have one. Knowing the entire cause for it is a never ending
mystery. We live our life, we love our life and sometimes we leave our life,
just for a simple cause! A cause which makes us and the lives around us impeccable
and settled. The Joy cum excitation, the series of emotions, the scrambled lane
of memories, and many more unexplained values that we experience through the
moment of us.
A few months back, when a good friend of mine asked me, “What's the
purpose of us being here?" I wasn't that convincing to him with my reply!
At that moment, all that was in my mind was, "Has the alcohol made so much
effect on him?". But knowing the past of my friend, it was easy for me to
judge that there was something more than the alcohol which was scrambling his
thoughts, and had laid a huge apostrophe over the protagonist of the
moment, "Life". The more deeper the explanations were,
stronger were the questions on his mind. The fact of being fired by his family
for not being with them most of the times, the fact of being paid less in
spite of the talents we posses also had to be considered during the
discussion. All he wanted to know was, “Why am i here in this world? Why are we
created? Is it just to eat, sleep and repeat? Is there anything more to it than
having a routine that the great/ worthless people follow? Aren't we missing
something which we haven't experience at all?
Listening to him saying all this, i was indeed mindfucked! "What in
the world is making him feel so? To the outside world, he appears so cool and
calm, but somewhere deep within, there was something unanswered for him. The
cool lad suddenly appeared to be a Hiuen Tsang in the search of "The
answer for his life". The mystical enthusiasm in him was
something unusual, which in general was so odd with respect to his image in the
outside world. He is known to be a casual, light minded friend, who is most of
the times a target for healthy dumbness. The way world looked at him, and the
way he looked at the world with a question mark was really interesting. All i
said to him was, "You will realize as the day’s move on",
which was backfired by another cracker, "Why do we need to experience
life? Why can't we just die right away? Who knows, we might have been born in
this world just to kill a mosquito and after killing it, why be alive?
Now, the discussion was turning out to be an argument! He was firm on
his thoughts and the same held good with me, with fair amount of justice to his
points. I then realized that it was the sharing of thoughts which made us more
accountable in this world; in this phenomenon called "Life". The more
we share, the more relaxed we feel. The more we creep within, lonelier we feel.
The more we eat, more heavy we feel. The more we talk, lesser the respect we
feel. The more we walk, less prestigious we feel.
The more we do, the more we feel.
The more we do, the less we feel.
The lesser we do, the more we feel.
The lesser we do, the lesser we feel
The moment and the actions which follow after a feeling is something
from the third level of this universe. Everything we do in life has no cause,
not purpose. We do it, because it is bound to be so. We sometimes don’t agree
with it, because we are bound to be repellent! That’s human nature. Belief or
disbelief, its varies from person to person, region to region, and more
importantly, From relations to relations. We all rely on a relation. May be it
real or virtual, considering the tremendous forces of attractions around us,
which make us involved deeply with what we are, attached the most. It may be a
Bike, it may be our home, it may be our parent, it may be our love/partner, or
it may even be a dustbin which we see daily on our way back home. It could be
anything. The moment we are attached to them, we start surrendering our values,
making space for the same from their end. The self-run character in us tends to
see changes here and there just to reach the level of the opposite side.
Let us consider our parent here! The ones whom we are introduced first
in this world! :)
We grow right from our Barday. We had milk, we grew! We had Cerelac, we
grew! We had Complan, we grew! We had Corn flakes, we grew! We had Chavanprash,
we grew! More than us having all these, we were willingly fed by our parent so
that we all grew. And the moment finally came when we called ourselves Grown Ups!!
:) We partied!! The Signs of Adolescence was visible in every one of us, and
accordingly the changes that we inculcated to match that level is evident too
in every one of us. No one would forget that! At-least our first
shave!!! The first cut, the mockery we faced, and lot of other censored stuff
which may not be appropriate to be written since the wroter is very good
at spelling mistakes!!
After having so many process changes, structural and functional
modifications, we now firmly believe on Independent decisions. We would
have watched a pilot walking towards his airplane, an actor signing autographs,
Sachin celebrating his centuries, or even Vajramuni's breath taking actions on
the screen. Our actions have now become a series of fantasies of the past. All
we want to see from now on is a Happy & Successful Us. A
beautiful house, a huge garden to begin with, range of sedans waiting for you
with a chauffeur of your choice, charming chicks around, relax in the day,
party in the night, no worries at all!! This is what most of us Dream, day in
and night out!! But for our fate, there's another phenomenon in our life called
"Distraction".
We believe that the mightiest aspect in the world is our Will power! But
quite a few fail to notice that the phenomenon which carries this will power
right from its inception is Distraction. It was this which made the world's
largest vessel to sink in the sea. It was this which made so many of us lose
their lane of future. It will be this which may make us surrender to
the surrounding pressure. Everything we witness in our day to day
living is bound to change, disperse or even disappear. Our consciousness
reaches to such a level towards it, that we start believing at something which
may not be important at all.
For e.g.: Smoking!
As we begin growing, the teenage in us misleads to various paths,
initiating the spark of Disastrous Glory for everyone. It all begins on trial
basis! The performance of the product reaches to such a level that, the level
of activity in us turns out to be directly proportional to the availability of
the product at our mental door. Somewhere in the middle, a few realize about it
in the long run, while many still stick on it expecting for magic. People start
expecting magic, without thinking about logic! The day comes when the magic
turns out to be a disguised art of temporary pleasure. Now is the time when a
few more start thinking about logic, while the rest are still stuck on to
magic. Finally a day comes when the product has done magic on its user, and
made him disappear permanently away from nature. The basic fact about smoking
is nothing but the one explained above. It is just an excuse!
Now kindly excuse me J if we could just
rewind for a moment, you may realize that it was the topic of smoking which
came into mind due to the topic of distraction, which was taken out due to
topic of Fantasies, which was again due to the topic of our parent! So many distractions
and some distractions within the distraction! Our Concentration needs to be so
precise towards our target. If not, this would be the result. It would end up
through numerous never ending concepts which would do nothing to our mind than
distract.
In simple, a distracted person who once left home to reach Egypt in the
lookout for Mummies would end up with Wilson (tennis Ball) in Bay of Bengal!!
Nor the dead mummy, nor the actual mummy to be around him at the moment. Total
confusion is all that he can get at the best possible rates (almost free
actually if the tennis ball wasn’t there).
May be this is when we start creating question marks and apostrophes’
around us. We start questioning for every deed that is pictured in our life. We
quest in the name of life, all the wanted/ unwanted aspects which appear to new
to a layman who’s never thought more in life than to start his day with a
toothbrush and toothpaste. This layman would have been doing just the basic
etiquettes in life making it simple enough for a smile during bedtime. He has
no questions to anyone, or to himself.
You wake up in the morning, grab a cup of coffee, finish the daily
routine in the loo if possible, if not leave to work, hurry in traffic, reach
office, have breakfast if you remember, start off work, rush to handle some
pressure at the restroom, eat, chit-chat, log off and reach home with a heavy
eye seeking nothing more than a pleasant sleep. The master copy is ready, and
the copier begins printing the next day after another. Accept or not, most of
us would be living the life as above. The most of us who would be leaving the
life above would also be the many who wanted to live with their fantasies! J If I’m not wrong!
When asked, what are you doing with your life? the reply we get is “It’s
not the same now. Lot of commitments, and other stuff”. Yes, agreed that we all
have commitments, but what about our commitments towards our goal? “This is my
commitment now, and this is my goal. No more experimenting in life, I’m done!!”
Experimenting???? How in the world can it be an experiment?? “Look, there are a
lot of other good things for me to do! And I’ve passed the age to try out
anything new. I don’t think it’s feasible to go back into the past. Sometimes,
we have to sacrifice”. 8 out of 10 discussions would definitely turn out to
fade away from both the ends due to the simple fact, “Lack of interest”.
We simply stop our interest towards our fantasy! We simply stop showing
interest to the people whom we care! We simply stop showing interest towards
the Dust Bin we once liked! We simply stop showing interest towards our life!
Now, I believe that there’s no necessity to explain about the
phenomenon, “Interest”. This is a common aspect which even a microscopic
creature would have felt. Everybody and everything in this world has interest
towards a certain prospect. It may be the interest of a tree to make home for
birds, it may be the interest of a father to see his daughter in the military,
it may be the interest of a kid to see Popeye while eating spinach, it may be
you showing interest in closing this document right now! Interest exists in
everyone, the concepts seem varying.
Our Interest is followed by our actions. Actions are followed by
commitments. The commitments are made to pass through a series of distractions.
These distractions are controlled by confusion. The confusion then leads to a
decision. This decision makes us firm on our commitments. These commitments
make us show interest. This interest makes us a start questioning with
everything around us! The commitments we had earlier and the commitments which
result from decision are entirely different with most of the people. The only
reason being “Lack of Patience” which is readily available with all whenever required.
Interests, commitments, patience, distractions, confusions, fantasies,
love, hatred, jealousy, care, respect, dignity, maturity, dumbness,
intelligence, and what not! The list never ends. Our life is meant to witness
all of these at the best possible way. Handling them in the right order is what
we our existence is meant for! The exposure to various phenomena in the concept
of life should be real strong in order that the future ahead of us is never
felt short of any.
My friend, who once questioned about life, may not remember the whole
scene right now! His topic of interest would be something else right now! Our
minds have the susceptibility to change at real high speeds which would make a
3G service feel ashamed. Each of us is unique in the way we pursue at things. A
girl’s smile may be seductive to one, while to the other it would be cruel. The
actual purpose for the girl’s smile would be entirely different to what these
two were imagining.
If someone asked me, I would say that Life is an open book. There are a
million words in the book which have specific meanings with respect to
everything we witness day by day. The only reason to cherish with the book is
the enormous memories it holds for us. The memories which will make us smile,
cry, numb. We all are born with a purpose. That is to Value ourselves. Each
rupee makes a million. We know the value of a rupee. But the real task lies in
valuing each rupee. The moment we are on it, it is the answer to all the
questions we carry.
Spreading a million smiles is more soothing than spending a billion
times!
Each of us is unique. Live your life! Love your life! We need not be
Grown Ups for any of these J
Have Great times ahead J
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