S KEERTHANA
In this 1 universe with 9 planets over 195 countries, with trillions of species and billions of us, have you ever wondered what are we all running for in this so called busy world? As a beggar, as a millionaire, as a cobbler, as a star, as all of us, we all do just for our bread and butter.
Of course its right, as said by Robin Williams ‘A hungry stomach, an empty wallet, and a broken heart can teach you the best lessons of life’. That’s cool, but apart from all this, apart from this materialistic world, at any point of your life, at least just for a second have you ever closed your eyes and questioned the purpose of your life? If you have at least tried it just after reading this that’s great too… So do you still think just chasing others to tackle a meal is the only purpose of life? Let’s see…
The values of human’s life has slowly started changing from people to paper(money). Time has changed from relaxing and sharing our daily happenings with our family to relaxing and sharing our daily happenings with lifeless gadgets and we think that this is the utmost peace or pleasure we get in our day to day life and if questioned anymore we crazily call it privacy…don’t we. Let’s be practical even I’m not insane to encourage taboo on social media or gadgets but these are the things which are in love with today than our peers.
Its fine moving on with the trend but don’t you think there is a change in our behavior and character. All of us would definitely remember those golden old days of our childhood were every night as a cute little kiddo we would be staring at the sky to see the gorgeous shining circle, hearing our granny’s tales and swallowing the food fed by our mom…don’t we, sure we will, but now the sad part is that the phones have taken the place of the moon, granny is displaced with youtube and sort and probably moms too are replaced with baby sitters.
Has years passed I think we have lost some of our precious values and habits which we once had it all and the perspective with which we see life today has completely changed too. The two main things which I feel we lack today are patience and the value we give to the things we access.
I feel there is an interconnection between these two and let us also see how to over come the lack. We must have heard people saying these lines- “we never recognize the importance of a thing until we lose it”…I believe this strongly. Today we easily get access to every corner of the world without even taking a step forward in our own room.
Say for example, if want to buy a thing I need not search for a store instead I can order it online and say if the delivery takes a week’s time I can get it delivered to me within a day or two by paying an extra delivery charge and even after buying I can still return it back even after weeks of purchase if I don’t like it anymore.
As we have got the authority over even such small things we are not able to admit our weak side at times. We eventually start losing patience as there is no effort from our side and stop valuing things. This example may seem to be very simple and may be silly because even I, the one who is writing this know that these are casual things in our daily lives. But remember a single drop of poison on a sweet within fractions of seconds can change the whole sweet a poison.
As we lose patience over small things and do not value things, eventually at the end we will stop valuing people, we would start losing people around us and probably may end up being alone and only at this time we will get to the value of the world around us…now you may ask how all these are related to the question about the purpose of one’s life.
If you ask me, I will opine that these are inter related stuffs. Let’s see how? The more we wander we initiate to find the right path the same way the more we start tasting loneliness we end up asking this question to ourselves, cool let me also give you all out there a small tip. It is very simple but the utmost effective one, be it when ever you loose patience or feel lonely speak out.
Yes, just speak out if not with anyone around you at least with your own self, have a talk with your inner self as nobody can love us more than we do and sooner or later believe me you will end up finding the answer to that question. Yet remember more of anything thing is injurious, be it a good one to. So limit your desires and expectations eventually your heart will start feeling lite so what more than a happy heart we need to enjoy life. Stay cool and play the game called life rightly with fun.
