'Living' life...
I met my friend on the road and asked her, “What’s up? How have you been?”...She answered “Oh well, I have been very busy with work, it’s going good”. Then I asked, “and how about otherwise?”. She replied, “ Nothing else man, everyone’s doing good at home and that’s about it”.
This is how an everyday conversation goes like for most of us. Have you ever thought of answering the same question with “Oh, I smelled this beautiful yellow flower yesterday, it smelled like a misty valley!!”, or maybe “Oh, I saw the sunset at the beach yesterday, the colors and the silence in the air took my breath away!” or even “ I had this slushy kiwi drink last night, I felt like I was drinking up the Amazon forest!”.
Interesting right? But at the same time it sounds weird in a way.
I feel everyone is so caught up with the activities which make up today’s life (like career, family and other social areas), that the actual essence of being alive seems weird. All the other aspects that man himself brought up and evolved over time are of more importance to us than the basic joy of living.
The basic instinct to experience life, by life I mean existence, through the senses we are adorned with to connect with the world has been forgotten and neglected in today’s rat-race.
They say, stop a while to smell the roses…I say, why just a while, why not more?
At all times thoughts run through the mind, thoughts of work, thoughts of the past and the future. Hardly anytime is spent just being in the present. Some people just find enough time to work, eat and sleep. They relax by watching TV or chatting to friends. I am not saying that these things are silly or meaningless, but I feel that there more to life than these activities. I feel these people aren’t living life, they are just maintaining it. The peak of their life goes by just surviving life and living half-way. For once, if you wake up and try living differently, living through your senses…living consciously, you will realize how much more beautiful and intense every small act feels.
I have been trying this out, whenever I remember, for quite sometime now. I find it an amazing experience. Life feels a lot more easy and simple when I do this. The things I tend to get stressed about seem lighter. Sometimes, I just stand in the balcony and watch the trees and the flowers, feel the warmth of the sun, hear the birds and the silence. It brings in me a feeling of being at one with my surroundings and the whole universe. I stand there in silence and just be in the moment.
And then I feel grateful, grateful for all that has happened and all that is happening. I acknowledge and appreciate the complex yet wonderfully simple plan of the Higher power. This feeling makes me smile and this smile is strong enough to fill me with enough energy and happiness to tackle the so-called problems I have to face today. And the more I practice living consciously, the more meaningful life and existence feels.
This is how an everyday conversation goes like for most of us. Have you ever thought of answering the same question with “Oh, I smelled this beautiful yellow flower yesterday, it smelled like a misty valley!!”, or maybe “Oh, I saw the sunset at the beach yesterday, the colors and the silence in the air took my breath away!” or even “ I had this slushy kiwi drink last night, I felt like I was drinking up the Amazon forest!”.
Interesting right? But at the same time it sounds weird in a way.
I feel everyone is so caught up with the activities which make up today’s life (like career, family and other social areas), that the actual essence of being alive seems weird. All the other aspects that man himself brought up and evolved over time are of more importance to us than the basic joy of living.
The basic instinct to experience life, by life I mean existence, through the senses we are adorned with to connect with the world has been forgotten and neglected in today’s rat-race.
They say, stop a while to smell the roses…I say, why just a while, why not more?
At all times thoughts run through the mind, thoughts of work, thoughts of the past and the future. Hardly anytime is spent just being in the present. Some people just find enough time to work, eat and sleep. They relax by watching TV or chatting to friends. I am not saying that these things are silly or meaningless, but I feel that there more to life than these activities. I feel these people aren’t living life, they are just maintaining it. The peak of their life goes by just surviving life and living half-way. For once, if you wake up and try living differently, living through your senses…living consciously, you will realize how much more beautiful and intense every small act feels.
I have been trying this out, whenever I remember, for quite sometime now. I find it an amazing experience. Life feels a lot more easy and simple when I do this. The things I tend to get stressed about seem lighter. Sometimes, I just stand in the balcony and watch the trees and the flowers, feel the warmth of the sun, hear the birds and the silence. It brings in me a feeling of being at one with my surroundings and the whole universe. I stand there in silence and just be in the moment.
And then I feel grateful, grateful for all that has happened and all that is happening. I acknowledge and appreciate the complex yet wonderfully simple plan of the Higher power. This feeling makes me smile and this smile is strong enough to fill me with enough energy and happiness to tackle the so-called problems I have to face today. And the more I practice living consciously, the more meaningful life and existence feels.
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