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Live it up!!!

Saturday, December 20th, 2008
When you were a child, think what were your biggest problems… Chances are it will hover around homework, trying to score the highest in class, excelling in extra-curricular activities and if all this were not enough to complete your 24-hour day, you would have been expected to be a model son / daughter and an ideal student. The children of today may also add by telling you that his parents push him too hard and too fast to become a winner and it is far better to be a grown-up than a kid who is forced to listen and abide by his elders.

What were your biggest issues, as a teenager? Chances are you’ll talk about interference from parents, too many rules and restrictions, overworked hormones and confusion galore. You may talk about peer-group pressure, love life (or the lack of it), career choices, talking with friends about the same topics over and over because you could not seem to make a decision. You may have felt that you couldn’t wait to cross the magic age of eighteen when finally people will look at you like an adult and take you seriously.

Ask yourself what your biggest worries are and chances are they’ll be about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself. Maybe you are not married and you keep wondering why you can’t meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better… or you get dumped and wonder how someone you loved so much could do this to you… or maybe you are married to the completely wrong person and you lie in bed wondering why did it have to happen to you…You worry about looking after your family, raising children and building a career. A closer look at your career path may make you realise that it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom scares you.

As you grow older, your worries compound – losing your youth, your head and finally your life.


One of my friends forwarded this to me on mail and it set me thinking…

Antares is the fifteenth brightest star in the sky and more than 1000 light years away. … so, how big are we and hence how big are the things that upset us today?

Wow!!! Some perspective!

Who is free from all worries? I don’t believe anyone is. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. If we all are to leave this world someday, why should we spend precious seconds, thinking of what can go wrong and why things never happen the way we want. Nothing lasts forever so…

Live it up, drink it down, do stupid stuff, love, laugh it off, avoid the BS, take chances… and never have regrets!!!

It’s a song by Natural called Paradise and the lyrics aptly sum it all up :

I live the long life
To get to where I am right here
I walk the long road
With just the wind in my hair
All I have is my smile
I began to lose track
I walked on for miles
And I never looked back
I’m not the kind of guy To get left out in the cold

Walked on forever And I’ll never grow old
Don’t wanna live the real life
Working nine to five
Find a piece of paradise
Finally feel alive
I live my life to the fullest
I have no regrets
I’d have to stack the deck
To win all my best

I feel a fire burning
Deep inside my soul
(deep inside my soul)
I hold onto my destiny
And I’ll never let it go
Cuz I live my own life
Found what I set out to
And I’ll never look back Because I found paradise
Devote my whole life to
Never giving up again
Follow your heart, your mind, your soul
Hold onto your dreams
And never let them go.

… so, Explore! Dream! Discover! Now…

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Explore! Dream! Discover! Now…

Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Was going through my blog after a very long time… not that I had stopped thinking of it but had got so involved in my work that this had taken a backseat – till someone I recently met spoke about his love for blogging and it kindled the old fire in me of expressing myself… and I guess that’s why I’m at it again…

‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.’ – Mark Twain

The first thing, I read when I opened my blog page… This quote by Mark Twain just never ceases to speak to me… I am a person who lives for the moment, someone who has an unlimited source of enthusiasm… someone who is a free bird, soaring high up… I cringe when small kids call me ‘Aunty’! Aunty makes me feel old, tired and chained…

Somewhere, I guess, all of us are scared of reaching a point in our lives when we will look back and regret not doing a number of things… Heck, I’m sure some of us already do that! I wish I could have gone for the camp to Rishikesh for white-water rafting; I wish I had told him I love him… I wish I had eaten that mango-flavoured ice-cream; I wish I had chased my dream; I wish…

I guess, somewhere we have to stop existing and start living. I have heard of this adage a number of times – Live like today’s your last day on earth – and honestly that thought scares me. What would I do right now if I knew i was going to die by day end? Would I be with my family, tell them how much I love them and thank them for everything… would I go get the wackiest haircut that I secretely want but never had the guts to get it… would I have a complete wild time with my friends… would I take the first flight to Rishikesh and do that white-water rafting or eat the mango-flavoured ice-cream or tell him how much i love him?

There is so much that I want to do right now; if only I knew when my last breath would be…

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