I recently met a very old friend. In reality, he is my childhood friend's husband. But then, he also is a friend to many. And I am one of them.
Here is one person I have known, who, without any prejudices or being judging, takes you as a friend, as you are. He, like my childhood friend, almost knows everything about me. And believe me when I say, that the best of your friends, that the oldest of your friends, that the nicest of your friends, that the most trustworthy of your friends, will pass a judgement on the events of your life, or put you in a category, or simply WILL write you out of their lives due to what has happened in your life. But here, is a couple who I have great respect for, for who they are, and for their acceptance of the people for themselves rather than for the occurances in their lives.
Every human has to live different phases in their lives. And I have just begun a new phase of living. I have so much to do. And I do not know where to start. On one hand, there is a career to be pursued, and on the other, a life to be lived to its fullest. On one hand, a child has to be brought up in the so called 'balanced' manner, and on the other, aged parents to be made to feel cared for and loved. On one hand, life passes by in the daily grind, and on the other, I need to take hold of it so that it does not go away uneventful. So much to do. So little time.
I asked him his thoughts on the same. He took a minute to reply, but his reply changed my way of living. He said, live everything with passion. Hey, haven't I heard that before, I thought. Well, yes, we all have heard it before. And yet again, like everything else, we ignored the 'passion' part of it. Oh yes, we heard it. But did we really listen? Where was the passion? If we would have heard it with passion, then we would have listened to what was behind it. That is what he meant. And when I heard it with passion, I understood it. He simply meant - EVERYTHING THAT WE WANT TO DO IN LIFE, WE GOT TO GIVE IT OUR ALL. That means, do not expect anything. Just do what you need to do with all your heart and soul. Just give it everything you have. Whether you pass in it or you fail, one thing is for sure, you are satisfied that you did what you could. You gave it your best.
And that, my friends, is the way we all need to live. No matter what the task ahead is. Even the way we breath. How many of us, even for a minute, put all our attention, on how we breathe. Just because it is something that is going to be happening till end of our lives, we totally take it for granted. Do we realise that breathing is the most important task of our lives. Where is the passion when we breathe? Its never there. And when we are so dispassionate of something so important, it becomes obvious that even though we know the importance of passion, we hardly have it for anything.
And because we are so dispassionate, we are so unhappy. We love less, we listen less, we do less, we work less and most of all we live less.
Thank you friend for telling me something I always knew but never understood..God bless you!!
