Festival Called Life...

A day after Diwali, I was pondering how I spent my day on the occasion?

 I was wondering how indefatigable I was, how I was running around to fetch sweets, Pooja Samagri and other stuff not even being aware of weariness. I bought myself a new set of clothes, chose them from the store shelf trying so many and then finalising one. In the evening my mother, I and my wife joyfully laid down Rangolis and decorated the Poojan Sthal. Then, during the Shubh Mahurat, we offered prayers to the Goddess Laxmi and Lord Ganesha. We prayed for good health and well being of Family and friends. Then, for the purpose of doing our bit for environment, we went with celebrating Cracker free Diwali. Post this, we had sweets and Poori Bhaji for dinner and went to sleep. This marked the end of festivities of the biggest festival called Diwali.

On the next morning, I woke up feeling depressed, sucked up by the illness called life, and unwillingly dragged myself into the chores.

How ironical it is?

On both the days, the same sunrise marked the start of the day, my wife was ailing on both the days, my father was struck in election duty on both the days, my mother's knees didn't bend on both the days, I was struggling to find my niche in the new office, I was trying to fit in the new city. I had the same set of problems, damn.

Then what was different?

 The attitude...the approach towards life...

A few days back, I got an opportunity to listen to a motivational speaker who spoke of how positivity in life is important.

He said that when you think of your past, 90 percent of the memories that you recall belong to the things that didn’t go well and make you sad. And when you think of future, most of the time you are intimidated by the fears of the unknown. But, there is neither fear nor sorrows in the present moment. 

So the trick is to "shut the future, cut the past and live in the present."

What this does is that it makes your approach positive towards life. You are not mournful of the mis-happenings in the past and there is not an element of anxiety about the future in your present and this does the magic.

Living in the present is like singing in the bathroom. It does not send chills of performing in front of a million people down your spine, rather results in better confidence levels and ultimately you do better in life. And thus, the no. of regrets for your future comes down.

So, summing it all up, the adage for the new age is "shut the future, cut the past and live in the present."

Let's pledge to celebrate the festival called Life because it is only once.