Ever since the beginning of our childhood, we have been taught this one thing the most perfectly, and that is to rush. We were caught up in this race of a so-called life. Since that time, we just hope and wish for one thing – ‘let this time too pass’, as if we’re going through hell. When we grow up, we, on the very onset of every week, try to make it till the weekend. And when it comes, it passes like it was a matter of merely few hours. Because that’s what we have been taught to do – escaping the reality; that’s what we have practiced by doing the same always, and that’s what we’re now good at. Good times come and go without letting us relish them, whether it be an event or simple and ordinary moments. All that we do today is to capture the instances in cameras. The occasion is never that auspicious as much as the moment we put it on social media and see the growing like count. All this makes no sense, because that’s clinging to life! That’s not the way to live; the more you cling to life, the more it slips through your fingers.
Basically, nothing can fix us and our lives other than we ourselves. We’re our own salvation. This life is a gift, our own ways make it a curse. Don’t carry on with this, work upon yourself. Be mindful. Be concentrated in the present, always, all the time, in the here and now, and you won’t ever run out of getting the real essence of life.
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
Alan Watts
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