How does it feel when you wake up early in the morning but
stay in bed (lethargic) till late and start your daily course activities an
hour before noon. Doesn't it seem half day wasted? Then you catch hold unto yourself,
get freshen up and your day starts an hour past noon. It feels like turmoil
inside you, raising temperature and radiating heat out of body. You get
restless, agitated, irritated and your mind cease. You feel feeble and
debilitated, you push from inside but succumb to lethargy (procrastination).
Today was again the similar situation, which I have become
used to now days, but controllable than before. After having an hour’s talk
with dad, I was better, had a bath and kicked my day off with reading a
wonderful book – Arrow of Blue skinned God, did a little office work, wrote,
read, meditated, ran at evening and folded the day with a small smile.
I learnt something today.
Life is full of events, which
may seem as of utmost importance, attention and worthy effort. But is it
really? Situations, events and circumstances, they all keep shuffling rapidly
(unaware to us). Today we are involved with something, the next moment we might
be in something else. We take birth, spend time as careless infants, grow up as
students, then see world as teenagers, step into adulthood, shoulder
responsibilities as life partner and then parents, put our maximum (to our
understanding) to all the events (phases) of life and eventually start to
realize we have been running to a dead end. We have earned nothing which we can
relish. Memories fade, expire and can only gives a mental satisfaction. An
orphan cannot be happy by the memories of his parents (alive), a doomed
businessman with the memory of his successful running business or a handicapped
with the memories of him being normal. “What is today might not be tomorrow and
will not be forever.” Then why waste on it and not seek what might be same
tomorrow and may remain forever. With
this understanding the first step – ‘to
seek’ is taken.
We get afflicted by life upheavals
and waste more in analyzing and stabilizing them. It is like leaving footprints
at the sea shore, how hard we try, and it will get washed off. Then why do it?
Why not sit afar and let the approaching ferocious tides and retracting same
feeble ones, amuse us, please us. Why not let the cool breeze brush our face
and soothe us, why not relax to the rhythmic music the nature plays. Why expend
time in leaving a footprint or making a sand palace and eventually let it
washed off by the sea… why not understand the truth and invest in it. Why not
utilize every single moment until we are capable of. Why not fold the day with
a satisfactory smile of achievement of something which might last? With this
understanding the second step – ‘to
understand’ is taken.
With these two steps only, we
are able to protect ourselves from worldly afflictions, torments and can
utilize every moment in the search and understanding, and hence the third step
– ‘to implement’ will be taken which
ultimately, will lead to ‘experience’.
