the essence of life!....by amarocks

the essence of life as i understand it now, is this....


we are dying, any minute. we don't know which minute. we may have only a few hours left to live. living life means doing everything that we want to do, we crave to do, we yearn to do, every minute we are alive.

the essence of life is that we have this one life to live and certain amount of time has been given to us. it will pass, anyways. we can use it, by enjoying every minute or waste it. it takes guts, risk, dogged minded determination and obstinacy to live your life, the way you want.

the key words in the essence of life are "love", "want", "enjoy", "passion", "pleasure". these should be the answers to why we do what we do and where we choose to spend our time. we need to ask ourselves every minute,

if this is my last day, am i doing what i love to do? am i doing what i want to do? am i doing what gives me pleasure? am i enjoying myself? am i doing what i am passionate about?

if the answer to all these questions is yes, then you are living life in its essence.
otherwise, you are just surviving, like animals. and very soon, it will be too late.

a core skill

if there is one thing i have learned in respect to interaction with people, is how to make people feel special about themselves. i love doing it. and it's facile for me.....i love making people feel proud of what they are! feel optimistic about life....i love it

work!

"if you do not feel like jumping out of bed every morning and rushing to resume work, just dump what you are doing and go find another career!!!"

carpe' diem'

seize the day!


Just a moment in this lifetime,
Just a tragedy ahead.
Not knowing where each turn will lead,
Within seconds we might be dead.

Live each day to the fullest,
Do not stop to wonder why.
Do everything your heart desires,
In dreams, reach for the sky.

Surprises at every stop sign,
With its share of wrong ways and dead-ends.
Statistics don't help you with the future,
They only tell you where you've been.

With so many people among us,
There are no certainties.
And all it takes is just one person,
To reroute history.

Dont waste one single moment,
How very precious that they are.
What seems a long way off,
Is really not that far.

Chelsi Holland

i love talking about...

i say quite often that i love talking. Generally, when i talk to someone, there is something very specific i love talking about. i love talking about what people love doing. i love asking them this question and further questions about what they love.

for instance, i went to the ecp beach this evening and got talking to a guy who was fishing. The guy was Chinese so neither of us could understand each other properly, his English being bad. even then, I asked him questions about fishing and he explained till i could bear his English....

i love the look and the expression of people and the way their entire being brightens up when they start talking about what they love doing, about what they really are, about what they have always wanted to be, in the essence...

i love it so much that i wish i could make a living out of....i hate wishing!

R.A.O.A Button

Some times in my life before, I have had to press the R.A.O.A key when nothing seemed to work and I realized I was on the wrong path. times like leaving non-medical, chartered accountancy, CAT preparation during final year...and many such instances...

you see, at this stage of my life, i am doing nothing consistent with my purpose, wasting days one after the another, not doing things I love, as they wait for my time. Because I cannot afford to take a dangerous risk at this stage. I guess I will lose my patience very soon and will press the RAOA key.

and when I press it this time, life will not be the same again....

RAOA: Restart, ALL OVER AGAIN

when it turns on, i will live follow the essence of life

http://hereisyamarocks.blogspot.com/2009/05/essence-of-lifeby-amarocks.html

you will have a many, you will not have me!

i do think about people i have left or who left me on the journey of my life so far. i am a social person. i meet new people and i will keep meeting new people.

But, you know i met some of those who left indelible marks on what I am today. I remember one such person told me once, you will meet a lot of them, but you will not have me!

you were right.

The other day i posted a post which said that i do not miss anything! i do not consciously miss anything. But the truth is, i forget nothing. specially people who have been special to me.

you will keep popping up in my mind now and then. life will move on with new people and new situations......but i will

miss you, always

when something you said, something you did will immediately ring in my mind........i will miss you......my lost ones

rejection!

i can, frankly, take a lot of it. it does not exist because i have nothing to lose and the only possibility if there is, is to gain. someone says no, i did not lose anything for i did not have it in the first place. we miss 100% of the shots we do not take.

i guess, it is one of the critical barometers of success. that is, how much rejection you could take. sometimes, i get tired and dejected and the pace of my efforts slows down, for i am not getting results.

but tomorrow is a new day. and i know, that no matter what the quantum of NOs is, i have to keep going. For

someone, somewhere, is waiting to say, YES

serendipity!

lets create it!

TOTD

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back!

Plateau

the state of my life at this moment

a plateau: a period or state of little or no growth or decline despite activity and efforts

The dictionary also describes it as a stable level of achievement. Bullshit. Stable level of achievement. What the hell is stable level of achievement! you are only as good as your last game! i have not been playing a lot of games these days!

you see, I have a job! i need peanuts also. I am an MBA, I have seen 2-3 countries and met people from many geographies for whatever reasons. Now if i see life perhaps as many people would, i should bloody get married through an arranged marriage off course and create children and live for them! what the heck!

i mean what the hell is stability? i am so freaking restless because i am not growing! i am not contributing! there is nothing called stability! life is not supposed to be stable. okay. one day, if i find a girl i love and who loves me, i might get married, god knows! i may have children also, i am sure it does not take rocket science or CAT problems! but that can't be the reason for my existence! you see, get married and raise kids! what the heck!

i guess, i am disturbed. i am not getting enough sleep! nothing seems to be growing, no part of my life. f****** hell! i am trying. no body can blame me for not trying. one thought i cannot live ever with is that "i did not try"! so i try. i guess i need to try harder and more intensely.

what else? well, i have crossed plateaus before during my story. i will cross them even now. i will keep asking. i will keep trying. i will not give up ever on life. it's not an option.

Plateaus will come and go. I will keep moving.

You see, an ant tries to climb a wall and falls a 100 times, it does not stop. perhaps it's survival depends on not stopping till it succeeds in its mission.

so does mine!

raison d'etre

I need a raison d'etre and I know it's me who needs to define it. it will not come from the heavens.

To be honest, it disturbs me a lot. I mean what the hell am I existing for. What is it that I am brought here to do. I mean, I know that I am supposed to enjoy myself and create maximum contribution by using my gifts. But how? what is going to be my life's work?

it means, from the dictionary: reason or justification for being or existence

i can't live my whole life living through nothing. Not me. I know what I need to do. I just need to take the first steps and not see the whole staircase, as Varun's favorite quote says.

Take those steps. Very soon, it will be too late. Create a difference before you pass away. Nothing else matters.

TOTD

Times of fear
Jug Suraiya

Beware. This newspaper that you are reading is a carrier of the most infectious and contagious, as well as the oldest, disease known to humankind: fear