This particular voice has become very prominent now. Day by day, it speaks with a louder growl. I cannot help but to agree with it. It is one of my voices after all. It says to me constantly,
‘Live each day as if it is your last’
I never used to give much heed to this voice. But something changed when a friend of mine (when we were walking on the street) was looking at a pigeon and went,
‘I wish I was a pigeon. My life would be so easy.’
And that got me thinking. I asked myself, what would drive a person to think such that the person wished to be a pigeon instead of the human he/she already is? On what baseless ground did we assume that a pigeons’s life is any easier? Are we so great? Why are we not questioning things constantly? Why was I not?
It is common knowledge. I mean, it is the most common knowledge there is; that everybody is going to die. Then, why are we not thinking about it constantly? Why does it not scare us? It should right? Or is it such that we have been so distracted that we seem to ignore it all the time? Either way, why are we wasting time, our preciously finite time, living lies and working jobs which we clearly don’t like? Who are we really aiming to please? And why?
When I say to my friends,
‘Let us go on a vacation.’
Barely a few respond with even a bit of enthusiasm. But, I know that they love vacations just as much as I. I know it because they are my dear friends. Now, I cannot seem to comprehend what is so blinding and distracting that it makes people forget that they need to live and enjoy this gift that has been given to us.
’No. My boss won’t let me take leave. I hate my job!’ Someone will say.
But, I want to ask, genuinely ask, what the person is doing working in a job they don’t like? Do we really believe that there are ‘better’ days coming? How can we be so sure about that while we continue to do things for others? How can we be so optimistic of better days when we know for sure that we are not doing anything whatsoever to build a better day?
Working in a job and doing things I do not love, is blasphemy to me. And it is a mistake I will never again repeat. Come what may, I have realized that my time on earth is very limited but also very very valuable. I used the term ‘valuable’ for a reason and the reason is in no way related to physical wealth and worthless notes of currency. Value, for me, stems from what I choose to do with my life, with my day, with my next ticking second. Think about that, give that thought a chance to marinate in your mind.
It angers me, every time I think I am wasting time by doing something I do not like. It also scares me because I know that that time is now permanently lost. It has passed by, unfulfilled. For me, living a life doing something which doesn’t give me happiness, is the same as owning a Ferrari and not driving it fast. Why don’t the majority of us feel the need to ‘take it for a spin’? Why don’t we wish to take life for a spin?
Living a lie, doing things we do not like, do we even realize how sinful that is? It is preposterous! It is as senseless as using a Ferrari just for carrying back the bags of groceries.
Alan Watts said, ‘You are something which the whole cosmos is doing’.
Agree to have a battle. Agree to wake up when you don’t feel like. Agree to smile when you don’t feel like. Agree to live each day as if it were your last when you deny that it might be so. Happy day starts here. Better day starts today. Life is fleeting, a floating vision which we have been given. Why not rebel for it? Why not protect it? Why not fight for it? Your dreams are yours and what you choose to do with it will define what kind of a person you are.
Fight for your dream, then you are alive. Suppress your dreams, then you are as good as dead. This is my humble opinion.
Think of yourself in a better light. We each have magic in our fingers. We can do good just by wishing it. Just by giving up our seat for an elderly person in the bus, that is magic. As simple as that. Just by acknowledging that we are unique and special, that is magic. Please, let us wish we do not follow the moving herd. Let us strive to find answers on our own.
Why do we shy away every time we get a crazy thought in our mind? Give that crazy thought a chance for once. Are we afraid of shaming ourselves in front of the public? Big deal! Big bloody deal! Why do we think we are so important anyways? People laugh at me? Hehe, I don’t care for I laugh at myself more than them. We will all die sometime soon or sometime later, then why not live each day as if it were our last?
Screw what others ‘might’ think. Others might label you crazy, dumb, or stupid. So what? Big fuking deal! Bohooo! Stop being so sensitive. Stop wasting brain resources thinking about useless stuff. Do it because you can. Do it because you must. Do it because others will soon do it. Change starts here, today. With this, I want to end with a quote from Shakespeare,
‘There is a tide in the affairs of men [or women] which taken at its flood will lead on to fortune’ – Shakespeare.
Thank you for reading. Here is a video from Alan Watts which will surely be of interest to you if you liked this article: Link
