Its a weird human nature - we can't help but want the present to exhaust in lightening speed so that we can start living the future we envision ourselves in. But this period in my life has been a time when I just wanted to live in the present, not waiting to live my life in the future but at this very moment in time and space where I have finally learnt something most people acknowledge only on their death bed.
An unacknowledged fear lurked around the corner of my heart for quite sometime and when I finally endorsed it I realised - I do not want to regret not doing something I wanted to and die. I do not want to regret 'Not Living' my life the way I wanted to. Most of the time looking around I saw people waiting for their life to finally head the way they wanted it to, finally start 'Living' their life, to finally get out of their comfort zone, finally laugh a bit harder, think a bit deeper, jump a bit higher. Everybody seems to be waiting for something but they don't even know what it is, so I wondered how they'll know when that 'something' does come by!!!
We spend a lifetime saving up to go for the perfect vacation, for the perfect gift, for that new car, that dream house and I am not against saving or anything, infact I strongly believe in the concept of saving up for unforeseen expenses but what I don't understand is giving up my life now, not indulging even in the daily pleasures but waiting to enjoy life at some point in the future. What if that moment never comes, what if the dreams grow bigger (which is usually the case) and all you do your entire life is save up for a life to want to start living and before you know it, life leaves you. Scary thought isn't it? Maybe I am painting quite a horrific picture but thats what happens to most people.
So stop being a mere spectator of your life passing by. It is tragedy to not accept what has been the greatest gift to you and to waste it being just a fraction of who you could have been, or worse not realising what you could have been.
An unacknowledged fear lurked around the corner of my heart for quite sometime and when I finally endorsed it I realised - I do not want to regret not doing something I wanted to and die. I do not want to regret 'Not Living' my life the way I wanted to. Most of the time looking around I saw people waiting for their life to finally head the way they wanted it to, finally start 'Living' their life, to finally get out of their comfort zone, finally laugh a bit harder, think a bit deeper, jump a bit higher. Everybody seems to be waiting for something but they don't even know what it is, so I wondered how they'll know when that 'something' does come by!!!
We spend a lifetime saving up to go for the perfect vacation, for the perfect gift, for that new car, that dream house and I am not against saving or anything, infact I strongly believe in the concept of saving up for unforeseen expenses but what I don't understand is giving up my life now, not indulging even in the daily pleasures but waiting to enjoy life at some point in the future. What if that moment never comes, what if the dreams grow bigger (which is usually the case) and all you do your entire life is save up for a life to want to start living and before you know it, life leaves you. Scary thought isn't it? Maybe I am painting quite a horrific picture but thats what happens to most people.
So stop being a mere spectator of your life passing by. It is tragedy to not accept what has been the greatest gift to you and to waste it being just a fraction of who you could have been, or worse not realising what you could have been.
