Not just a regular day !

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’.