Again I am late. I know, I know...
So, this is my Q post...!!!!
Quality Time!
When you think life is going exactly the way you want, it just takes a sudden turn and everything topples down. That’s how amazing life is. Life is never easy nor boring. It's a roller coaster ride with God being the driver, and we alone the passengers with some co-passengers who get down at some point or other. Ultimately we begin and end alone.
I have a brother, who’s in his
high school, and whose biggest worry is getting up early in the morning and at
times exams too. There was a point when I too had the same fears in my system.
When I just wanted to get out of school and face the real world. After school
there was another bridge before getting to life. College. There, the profession
had to be choosed according to the job priorities and not coz of passion. After
done with in-numerous internals, semesters, lectures, fests, hang outs, studies,
scolding’s, seminars, projects, when was really out in the real so called
world, nothing seemed real. Everything was so monotonous that you could almost
predict your days. No one really bothers about anyone or even themselves. The
ultimate goal is earn as much as possible before the last breath. For that
sacrificing doesn't seem to be so hard.
Friends and relations became
distant and end up in an occasional visit or call. Distance, busy schedules,
work pressures … all these came up as excuses. Even I do the same thing. Being
a person who hated monotony in any form, survival in this scenario seems far
more difficult than I dreamt.
Does people really live, or is
this is the ‘beautiful’ life? Where we get so few hours with family and dear
ones? If you have to meet a friend who’s in the same country, have to plan,
check the schedules and then finally get to meet. If he/she is in a different
country, then the planning and rescheduling have to be done before months with
prays that no unexpected work creeps up in the last moment.
Work is always important, and
money is too. Because, if I didn't get my pocket money from dad or earns
myself, there’s no means to satisfy my leisure needs, which is an obvious
factor for me. But apart from all these worldly love, don’t souls need the
warmth and touch of other souls?
You born, you crawl, you walk,
you start gaining knowledge from school and then college. You work as hard as
you can but you smile too. Then to professional life, where you work much
harder than you can away from parents, spouses, children, friends, home and
everything dear to you. You earn money get back home to find that your child
has already grown up and you missed his growing years. That your friends had
drifted away from you, as you never had any time for them. That now you have so
less time with your better half, as your days are few. So actually did you earn
something or lost everything?
“Stop and make sure that everything you are
doing right now is really what makes you happy. You can’t just live for some
goal in future and have that be everything… have that be it. Because that is
what some people do. They get on this road and there are all these signs
saying, ‘This way. That way.’ But what if you get there, you get exactly what
you wanted, like some people do, except all the things were wrong, are still
wrong. Then what?” – Party of Five.
P.S. Musings
from a beginner in Life.
God Blez.
