I read somewhere – “Live life as if it is the last day of your life. And a day will definitely come when the previous line will be true :)”. Through the eyes of the world, our lives are defined not by what we have earned during our lifetime, but what legacy we leave behind. In pursuit of this, everyone wants to do different things in life, which will define him/her; things, doing which, they will feel happy and content and will be fondly remembered.
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| Life with Blinders |
But how many times do we really do what we want to do? Do we really do what we love? Are we doing things for the sake of doing them OR we do them because we are asked to do them. OK, I know these are like big questions everyone keeps asking and I don’t think there is any real answer to that. If only there was a book – “How to Live Life for Dummies”!! :D
I think the real question is - why don’t we do things that we want to do? What stops us from taking those bold steps? Why do we just think about doing what we love, but stop short of doing those things? The answer to this is I guess the way we are brought up. I think we all are so caught up in our day to day activities that we do not look or think beyond a day, a week or at most a year. Our minds are restricted in so many ways. Since birth, we are trained to obey rules – there are rules and regulations within the family, there are Red signals on the roads, there are list of instructions in schools, there is code of conduct in offices!! Phew….so many restrictions! Our vision gets narrowed to only obeying these rules and not doing anything out of the box. We are like horses with the blinders put on. Even when we leave our homes, we end up seeing some sky and mostly the surrounding buildings that block our views.
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| Limitless Possibilities - What Can I do? |
In times like these, I look towards the nature for some inspiration. Whenever I travel to sea shores and beaches, I am amazed at the vastness of the view. Even with binoculars, all I can see is the sea!! There’s water everywhere and the view is breathtaking. The fresh air, the chirping of birds, the sound of waves – the complete feeling refreshes and rejuvenates me. But what I like the most is there is on restriction on my view, there are no boundaries. I can see as far as I want to see. The water has freedom to flow in any direction it wants. The winds are not tied down by any list of instructions. The entire feeling is highly inspiring in that there are limitless possibilities without boundaries. There is freedom to think, to decide and to do.
And that I think is the reality of life. There are so many things that we can do, if we believe that we can do them. We just have to free our mind from the cob web of treading the same path that is worn out by the steps of every other traveler. Think of things that we love to do and just do them. Keep reinventing. Take up new challenges.
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| If you dream, you can. |
Once we start we realize that its not that difficult and things that we felt we could never do, are quite possible. It’s like looking in the rear view mirror – it correctly says “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear”.
Someone rightly said - "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish".
