Mild tremors of earthquake jolted my office today. I was on my feet and moving around so didn't realize it immediately even though I am on the top floor of a tall building. However people who were sitting down felt it....and we all rushed out of the room eventually.....only to realize it had passed and was not coming back. Slowly not so surely we came came back to our room our work, our present.
However, a though lingered......
The moment I was running out, clutching my phone - all I cld think of were of the very very important people in my life, and wondering if I would have the time and signals enough too call all of them.......in case this doesn't pass by harmlessly.
(Too much drama in too little time you would say....NO! The mind is the fastest in the universe, and even text as ancient as Mahabharata accept it.)
Anyway, once the moment passed it struck me that all days and all nights I usually spend thinking about people who make my life miserable in one way or the other. And at that one instance when my existence was threatened, they were nowhere on my mind....in fact far far away from it.
All that mattered were the select few who make it worth living.
If life is so short & fickle......... then why do I spend so much time thinking about things and people that don't really matter. Revelation? Indeed, and a liberating one.
I have know this, I have read this.....but I had to experience this, for it to hit home. (Like Aamir Khan says to Kareena Kapoor in Three Idiots - tumhe har baar demo dikhana padta hai)
I think it was a sign, a demo for me by God, coz lately I had been fighting with too many daemons a losing battle. This changes it all.
Since this evening I have spent a lot of time thinking of people I love and people who really matter....and it has made a a fortress in my mind that nothign is able to penetrate now.
I know that the termites of trouble work differently, they never attack from the front, but enter slyly........but now I know what the antidote is and how to plug the hole.
We have just this One Life to Love and Cherish and be Happy...........am not wasting it anymore.
However, a though lingered......
The moment I was running out, clutching my phone - all I cld think of were of the very very important people in my life, and wondering if I would have the time and signals enough too call all of them.......in case this doesn't pass by harmlessly.
(Too much drama in too little time you would say....NO! The mind is the fastest in the universe, and even text as ancient as Mahabharata accept it.)
Anyway, once the moment passed it struck me that all days and all nights I usually spend thinking about people who make my life miserable in one way or the other. And at that one instance when my existence was threatened, they were nowhere on my mind....in fact far far away from it.
All that mattered were the select few who make it worth living.
If life is so short & fickle......... then why do I spend so much time thinking about things and people that don't really matter. Revelation? Indeed, and a liberating one.
I have know this, I have read this.....but I had to experience this, for it to hit home. (Like Aamir Khan says to Kareena Kapoor in Three Idiots - tumhe har baar demo dikhana padta hai)
I think it was a sign, a demo for me by God, coz lately I had been fighting with too many daemons a losing battle. This changes it all.
Since this evening I have spent a lot of time thinking of people I love and people who really matter....and it has made a a fortress in my mind that nothign is able to penetrate now.
I know that the termites of trouble work differently, they never attack from the front, but enter slyly........but now I know what the antidote is and how to plug the hole.
We have just this One Life to Love and Cherish and be Happy...........am not wasting it anymore.
1 comment:
so true...all that matters is this one life and people who make it worth living. nice post :)
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