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Love is feeling where you are at peace. When everything feels at rest and in the best shape. The feeling that you are not alone, there is someone to pat you up and cheer for you.
The modern day media has it’s own version of love. So is hollywood and bollywood. The glittery side of love is more to do with projection for others than the self.
Love is about knowing each other, feeling for others and being with each other.
Everything we have in our lives is nothing less than a gift. We are breathing, and all body parts are functioning. On top of this, a healthy upbringing, what more can we ask for?
After living like a traveler for all these years and still hopping between UAE and India, I thank the almighty for every minute of my life. I know one should keep a bigger goal, get rich, and whatnot. Something social media markers are paddling all nonstop.
Our mind is unstoppable, and our quest is limitless. Sometimes, we need to relax and thank the universe for everything we have. I agree the sky is the limit, but being grateful knowing you are not in rubble should make you feel good.
Our fate or destiny depends on our present. We learned as we grew, our teaching happened when we gasped whatever was imparted to us. There is so much one can do in the limited time of our lives.
People die doing nothing but dreaming about doing big. The aspect of life requires both dreaming and doing. A few lucky ones realized early on in their life in living now, about acquiring self-knowledge.
I keep hearing age is a number. But in reality, it is a number till you take care of yourself. Our sedentary lifestyle is making me sick day by day. It has more to do with our actions than age.
What I have learned from people in the late years of their lives is simple 3-4 things.
Before mass migration for jobs started, most of India lived in villages. We had the company of people we grew up with for eternity. The company had a healing power. We had less TV and more sitting together, talking, and sharing happiness and sorrows.
With the advancement in food technology, India has started consuming refined food more. As a result, we are more hungry, more sick. Our calorie intake and lifestyle both got a major shock.
All major philosophies talk about letting go, not worrying about the future, or keeping a grudge. But it is just in the textbooks and sculptures, not in life. We humans crave superiority, glory, and respect. In the process, we get angry and become sad due to our expectations from others.
In short, we can live a better life, age well, and die longer, keeping things in our control and actions.
In the last few years, many startups with big markets and growth as primary enablers have gotten funded. Currently, many such companies have shut. Mass layoffs are happening for cost-cutting, or unwanted mergers are taking place.
We have come this far because money was cheap, and FOMO was in its prime. The business fundamentals were missing. It was just go fast, kill competitors, raise as much you could.
Nobody cared about solving the pain.
A founder’s most important job is to ensure the company does not run out of money. It pays the team on time. It requires a lot of focus and recruiting able leaders. The founder should aim to run a company as an orchestra, not in the hands of a single person.
As more efficient leaders get hired, the company’s chance of success increases.
As we grow old, we realize that our sanity matters most. As a result, we have to rewire ourselves and let go of many things of the past. It can be our relationships, experiences, and learnings. We can’t let our past bully us. We don’t have to hang up with artificial relationships.
Some people with all the money in the world and all the fame are shallow. They can neither handle the fame nor sudden wealth. They lose their sanity.
Have you felt the aura of some supernatural coming at times when you are in deep mess to rescue you or ensuring you get through the darkest face of life.
Sometimes I feel there is someone above helping me sailing through the dark phases of life. It could be some supernatural, god, karma or whatever.
I might sound delusional but it has happened to me time and again. I felt like sharing this.
We keep procrastinating and delaying things for the future. We feel we are never ready. The little moments of now have no importance to us. We keep building castles for the future. How much do we know about the future anyway? What does the future hold for us? How much do we know about it?
The little moments we have with our loved ones, we need to live to the fullest. We hardly know if they are alive tomorrow or not.
Epictetus, a stoic philosopher, said thousands of years back:
“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our actions.”
Another stoic philosopher, Seneca, talks about the shortness of life:
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
Our allocated time on this planet is limited. We have to make the best of all the moments. We cannot delay things we have been waiting for because we don’t know what will happen tomorrow.
We live in a world where many constantly seek for validation. As a result, many go out of the way and incur losses. The sooner we realize that we exist in our thoughts and actions. We start applying it to practice. It will save us from many modern-day pain and misery.