The slightest of incidents, the smallest drop of happiness, a tiny bit of some beautiful feelings – like love and that dirty scar on a person’ s beautiful mind – anger, everything huddles to make this ecstatic four letter word: LIFE. Living a consistent life would in my opinion be the best thing to happen to anyone. By that, I don’t mean that one should resist any change. I just mean that the way we feel shouldn’t change any day. But then, we can’t be happy everyday – can we? And we can’t be in a state of depression for too long either! There are ups and downs, nights and days, light and dark by the will of God. However, I am of the humble but firm opinion that life has to be “lived” everyday. It has to be rejoiced and petted. Just imagine your life to be a cute pink huggable soft toy and pamper it. Unless you are stint believer of re-incarnation (even if you are for that matter), this life is just one and only one and you deserve every right to live it the way you want. I love pulling my dad into my articles (I wonder why) – but my dad wanted me to do software engineering, the hotspot for everyone with a little brain and lots of money to land in. I was neither, you see and a very adamant Taurian too. I decided that I will only do fashion designing for living. Thaaaat’s right! It took my parents, neighbors, teachers and Madras Christian College’s brochure to change my mind to consider visual communication for graduation, as opposed to fashion designing. If you ask me if I still regret it, well, not much. Probably they all were right; but then, not always you get lucky enough to do what your parents want you to do and still not end up screwing it up. But then, life isn’t a blame game, it isn’t really about you against the others. It is just about the chirpy celebration called LIFE which involes you and others living lives imagining yourselves to be the heros and heroines, jus’ like it movies. If this can happen in Hollywood – why not in real life, huh?
You know I read this quote once, “Be mindful of every little pleasure in life, by living everyday like it’s your last day,” and thought wow – I don’t do that. I used to live life every day, expecting it to get dark so that I could go to bed or for it to be a Friday evening, when the weekend began. And once the weekend began, I either slept all the time or watched TV or made my mom’s life miserable or started waiting for the weekend to end so that I could go to work! I wasn’t really too pleased with the friends I had, the life that sucked and the relatives who demanded too much… And then I read this quote and lo – I changed.
Well, I was jus’ kidding and wish it was as simple as that. But yeah, I took some time off and everything settled in my life – I got the job I liked, I got some really kewl friends and most of all, I loved myself and I loved my life. And now, I only look forward to living that day to the fullest and the happiest that I possibly can. I tell people what I like about them and choose to ignore those disturbing parts, which I don’t like. I build friends and call my good old friends, with whom I stopped talking to, cuz of some lame excuses and petty fights. It’s good to have new friends but it’s definitely great to get back to your old friends cuz they are the ones who will, in split seconds, spot the differences in your life and point it out to your own self. I didn’t realize those changes myself and I jus’ rejected their whole idea of “you-have-changed-so-much” saying that it was just a part of growing up. But yes, I guess I have changed and changed for good. The main change that I like about myself is that I live and love life everyday and enjoy every bit of it – thereby living life like every day!
Thank you for reading my blog and I do hope you enjoyed reading it!
Please do leave a comment about the impact of this blog!
Life is aekn up by your article in a holistic way, and it was good. But, if you look at the deeper intrinsic matters you will realize that life is just something completly different every single time we think about it.
I kno it may be slightly confusing, but, cant help it i’m a poet and have written about 75 + poems on “life, death and everything in between it” ( thats d title of my book. ha ha ha)
Over all, your approach is fresh, but I notice that your holding back a lot of yourself from your articles. Free yourself from the doubts of you not being worth your articles and you will notice that you are more of an inspiration to yourself rather than anyone else in this world.
Your a butterfly trying to free yourself from the cocoon, and the sooner you do it, the sooner people will see the beauty of your flutter and color. And you will then realize that you were not just meant to be a Caterpillar crawling in this life, but a butterfly ready to take flight and spread smiles across everyone that comes across you in this lifetime.
Regards
Ashwin.
Wow! Di didn’t know u started bloggin!!
Anyways i do agree with what you said about living everyday to the fullest! I wish i did actually practise that! That is comon rt? where people just talk about things that they belived in but that they really never did at all! Nevertheless, i was having a low day so far and your article cheered me up!
No point in me wasting my time mopping around when i can actually smile and sail right through it enjoying every minute!
I dunno how but you always know what to do…atleast with me! luv ya! :*
Awww… I can’t believe my cutie pie is having a low day
You r the one to cheer everyone up and when u feel low – I CAN’T IMAGINE!
Its been like wat – more than 6 years that we are friends? If I don’t even know what to do or get telepathic, then isn’t it a disgrace to out friendship
Love u and miss u too
Do visit India as soon as u can 