Imagine yourself at your formal best in a board room. Soon after, you attend a friend's birthday party at a hip restaurant. Just as you guys think about calling it a day, the rain Gods make their presence felt. What do you do??? Do you take the parking lot as a large public bathroom, and make full use of the water supply. Or do you stand under a shed, and look at the other category of people and think "Oh! Probably they haven't taken a shower for weeks!!"
Well... I belong to the former category, The child inside me is still alive!!! :)
When a child in class 2 returns home, he is so very excited... "Hurray!!! i am home!!!!!" and so are the kid's parents। The other day I was at my friend's place when his elder brother, who is the HR Head of a software firm, came back home from work।
He entered with a sigh,
didn't even bother to say Hi,
and I thought I heard my friend's mom cry....
Oh Hez Home again...Why!!!
Well...all I am talking about here is the child-like energy that keeps going down gradually, as we move up the professional ladder.
What I am trying to say is that as we grow up, become more and more mature and start getting surrounded by life's various atrocities, having a little bit of FUN every now and again is not all that bad after all. It helps ..to get rid of stress, to perform better, to recharge our batteries. Buddha said "Discover Yourself. " I think we must "Rediscover Ourselves". We must "Rediscover the child in ourselves." We need to start doing what we loved to do as a kid, be it dancing in the rain, be it playing childish games, or be it just laughing at silly jokes sometimes.
Having said that, I do not necessarily mean that life is only about having fun.
There is another aspect of the child inside us that one must not ignore. When a child needs a toy, he must get it, and he knows of ways he can get it. When we make goals for ourselves, are we as stubborn as we were a few years ago? By the experience and knowledge that we have acquired over the years, we are perhaps cleverer now, and knowing ways to reach our goals should be much easier than looking for ways to convince mom and dad to get us a toy!!!
My point is that 40 years down the line when I am into my second childhood, and I look at the years gone by... there is nothing that I should regret. I should have given in my best efforts to make it to my goals, and I should have made each moment of life memorable.
I must LIVE my LIFE, and not just survive...The Child Inside Me must always remain ALIVE!!!!!
Well... I belong to the former category, The child inside me is still alive!!! :)
When a child in class 2 returns home, he is so very excited... "Hurray!!! i am home!!!!!" and so are the kid's parents। The other day I was at my friend's place when his elder brother, who is the HR Head of a software firm, came back home from work।
He entered with a sigh,
didn't even bother to say Hi,
and I thought I heard my friend's mom cry....
Oh Hez Home again...Why!!!
Well...all I am talking about here is the child-like energy that keeps going down gradually, as we move up the professional ladder.
What I am trying to say is that as we grow up, become more and more mature and start getting surrounded by life's various atrocities, having a little bit of FUN every now and again is not all that bad after all. It helps ..to get rid of stress, to perform better, to recharge our batteries. Buddha said "Discover Yourself. " I think we must "Rediscover Ourselves". We must "Rediscover the child in ourselves." We need to start doing what we loved to do as a kid, be it dancing in the rain, be it playing childish games, or be it just laughing at silly jokes sometimes.
Having said that, I do not necessarily mean that life is only about having fun.
There is another aspect of the child inside us that one must not ignore. When a child needs a toy, he must get it, and he knows of ways he can get it. When we make goals for ourselves, are we as stubborn as we were a few years ago? By the experience and knowledge that we have acquired over the years, we are perhaps cleverer now, and knowing ways to reach our goals should be much easier than looking for ways to convince mom and dad to get us a toy!!!
My point is that 40 years down the line when I am into my second childhood, and I look at the years gone by... there is nothing that I should regret. I should have given in my best efforts to make it to my goals, and I should have made each moment of life memorable.
I must LIVE my LIFE, and not just survive...The Child Inside Me must always remain ALIVE!!!!!
Well said.. The thought has been on my mind for some time now; Why do people take themselves so seriously?. And I also happened to read somewhere.. "Angels fly cuz they take themselves very lightly".. Maybe all of us should learn and practice to let go..
ReplyDeletewell very well written dude its actually right we dont give our best shot as we gave wen we were children.......i never knew u culd write so well ..........lol
ReplyDeleteAwesome..juss loved the thoughts!!!!
ReplyDelete"....and I look at the years gone by... there is nothing that I should regret. I should have given in my best efforts to make it to my goals, and I should have made each moment of life memorable."
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