My Take on Life

​It happens, almost with each one of us, we get trapped by long thoughts and contemplations. We keep recalling all the incidents that occurred lately and keep our mind in a constant state of confusion, stress and anxiety. I must say, we humans are one beautiful creation, masters of keeping our thoughts bottled up inside us and despite the anxiety and agitation, we still go about being all cool and calm.

But the problem needs to be addressed, the vacuum needs to be filled.

I've learned that life is anything but a movie being played in time-lapse. Millions of people, seasons, weathers, sunsets, all pass by in a split of a second and it continues to go on as a constant cycle. But we must know that this cycle will eventually end, and it's much better and more God-like to accept the reality as soon as possible.

In this constant bullet-speed phase, my take on life is,

Lower your expectations and put your standards higher - It's not the fault of the world to be deceiving, but ours in getting a bit too attached to it, expecting a bit too much from it. It's okay to expect from people, but know that eventually we're all as unitary as we were when we entered the world. You'll learn to expect less, and put your standards higher. You will develop a certain taste for everything. You'll learn to seek more reality and less drama.

Speak less and listen more - Often said and heard, and so I wouldn't shy away from making this a part of my blog. Yes, speak less, not because that's the humble way of bragging your intelligence, but a genuine way to get closer to people, to know more about the 'real' people; people with something extraordinary to talk about. Listen to them, try to make them feel that there are people and places in this world where they may feel their souls are understood, where their stories aren't made the top social highlight, without valuing the actual essence of their thoughts and ingenuity.

Look for the places where your heart is full - It's okay, if it's only solitude that serves to make your heart full, but remember we're all social animals after all. We need people around us, to care for us and make our lives complete. Look for them who despite their simplicity have got the most fancy stories to tell, teachings to teach, love to give and respect to gain.

Please YOURSELF - Look into yourself, don't let people drive you. Stop destroying 'you' to please 'them'. Seek for the places rich in yourselves, rich enough to value humans and nothing else.

Don't be down, but be down to earth - It's okay if it happened, people have experienced worse than that. DON'T put yourself down. Learn from it, learn to accept that you can go wrong. And that'll teach you to be down to earth. And once you are, have a proactive approach to eliminate those things that make you feel down.

Be loved for your thoughts and nothing else - Some of us always want to be loved for our looks, but you should feel super happy for yourself, if you have already encountered the stage where looks don't matter to you any more, but thoughts do, compassion, brilliance, humility do.

Practice what you preach - That's the real deal. Something almost all of us are battling with. A living person reflects the electronic charge of current. For a living dead, the spark is dead too. In order to make oneself in life as immortal & intellectually undegradable, the litmus test comes in, as one needs not a material victory stand but an intangible stage with earned well-wishers who involuntarily are willing to hold you above ground & above shoulders.

But just know that life is a solved puzzle, where we knowingly complicate solutions, only when we lose BELIEF.

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