A NEW Life awaits YOU

While listening someone sing, do you ever feel, "Hey I used to sing so well..but I never tried it..". Or seeing someone play Tennis you ever felt that rush of your soul out on the court to just play it...

Last time when I went to my home, I felt like showing to my Papa, how I write on my blog. He read it for a while, immensely into the bakar I wrote and then giving that peculiar, admiring, Papa smile, saying, "tum to bahut achhha likhte ho".

And then came something, which all of us have heard at many times.
"There was a time when I used to write and sing. I liked it so much. Even playing mouth organ was great fun".

And I don’t know from where it came out onto my tongue, that I replied to him, "I don’t wana say this, when I grow as old as you are, to anyone and more than that to me at least".

Everybody keeps on telling this thing to almost everyone, “Listen to your heart”, “If you don’t listen to your heart then you will never be happy”, and many such clichéd phrases. The degree of the commonness of these phrases and “gyaan” is only matched by the degree of their violation; how many of the people ever born in this world have followed their heart, their instincts and their intuitions?
I don’t know that figure.

But I do know two things about it- First, they are very less in comparison to the men who haven’t, very less, I can’t quote a figure, but my intuition says around 2-3%. Second thing, those who have had followed their heart, they are the ones to have brought this evolution in the world, all the beautiful creations of the human civilization and all the development and just everything that we humans take pride on.

We all know and believe that each one of us is born with some inherent strengths, interests, bents and likings. And we also know that if Sachin played, say, hockey or went on to become a doctor, then we might have not even known him; one can’t fire a light with water.
But, even then most of us go the wrong way; the most commonly used way and just end up admiring others (I don’ say its wrong, but first you should admire yourself) and regretting of not what we did, but what we didn’t.

So, who’s responsible?
I would say, WE are responsible for the fate we chose and for the life we live.
No one, but WE.

We all forget that we were born to pursue some endeavor, to travel some path, to strike some chord, to ignite some fire, to draw some lines, to voice some voice, to do something that we really want to do.

You might say that all this depends not only on you but society, family background, country, etc. etc. Well, all of them are just EXCUSES and not the REASON.

You sat for that company in the campus, not for the work, but for the money you needed to satisfy your desires and not needs. You didn’t take up that career because what everyone would say and think about you and your family. You are not leaving your current job, even after hating every moment in it and just waiting for the return cab to drop you at home because it might destabilize your cash flow or your chances of marrying a good mate. Keep on saying them. Innumerous you can say, but you can’t give me a reason, a single HONEST REASON.

Why?

Because, of the fear of failing, fear of that insecurity of losing whatever good things you have, fear of coming out of your comfort zones, etc. etc.

And you keep on living your life, counting every passing day, weekend, month and year and lying to yourself and deadening that free bird inside you which wanted to live its dreams and fly to a place where there would be peace and satisfaction. Slowly and slowly you shackle your free will in innumerous formalities, responsibilities, behaviors and every damn thing that civilized culture has given to you.

You are not happy. You are alive but not living. You are not you anymore. You are just any other human who lost himself in anonymity.

Why? Why are you doing this to yourself?

Start listening to your inner voice. Start doing that, what you know you can do best. Start living for yourself. And, it wont call for any big sacrifices or rebellion or departing. All it would require is self knowledge, self constraint, rational prioritizing and yes, a strong self belief.

And, if you stil dont know a thing you can die for, then atleast keep living to find that reason, and then live for that reason.

Start a new life because I really don’t know whether there is a second.

So, start living in this life.