After decades (!?!) of hard work (Phew!!!) i happened to have a jobless day in my life... I don't know if I am the only weird being or i have company, but when i had loads of work i just wanted a break... And when i had a break (at last!!!) i didn't know what to do... Like any other jobless idiot, addicted to Mark Zuckerberg's creation, i logged on to my Facebook account. After surfing all the updates on the homepage until it suggested that there are no more posts to show, i suddenly started looking at my own contributions to Facebook!!! I happened to notice a video that i had shared ages back on what you learn during a plane crash which caught my attention for a while...
Before i could go on with my thoughts, a little brief of the video:
It was a speech by a man whose flight was about to crash. By God's grace, they landed safe but he expressed his feelings as he was in the flight. He shared the three things that he learnt about himself at that moment: (Quoted as he said in the video)
" I learnt that it all changes in an instant... We have this bucket list, we have these things we want to do in life.. And i thought about all the people i wanted to reach out that i didn't.. All the fences that i wanted to mend.. All the experiences i wanted to have and i never did... I no longer want to postpone anything in life... And that urgency, that purpose has really changed my life...
The second thing that i learnt that day was..... I regretted the time i wasted in things that did not matter... with people that matter... I thought about my relationship with my wife.... I decided to eliminate negative energy from my life... I no longer try and be right, i choose to be happy....
The third thing i learnt in this is that dying is not so scary... Its almost like we have been preparing for it our whole life... But it was very sad.. I didn't want to go.. I love my life... And in that sadness i only wished for one thing... I only wished i could see my kids grow up...
I was given the gift of a miracle of not dying that day.. I was given another gift, which was to be able to see into the future and come back and live differently.. Imagine if the same thing that happens in your plane, then how would you change??? What would you get done that you awaited to get done coz you think you are going to live forever???"
Well for a jobless me that gave a whole lots of thoughts to keep me occupied for the whole day... First and foremost i remembered the quote:
" Live everyday as if it were your last and then someday you'll be right"
How true... Death could knock your door any day... What is the point in preparing for the uncertain future when you are not too sure if you will survive the next minute... I am not saying that there is no future, but what we forget is the present... How will you know that when you postpone your desire you will be alive to accomplish your wish... Even if you are alive will it give the same level of satisfaction that you would have got had you not postponed it in the first instance???
I started off with not postponing things and realised that getting things that i want immediately without postponing gives me lots of happiness. Is being happy not the purpose of our lives??? Also it gives me greater time as i don't pile up my wish list, reduced laziness as i no longer want to postpone and a feeling like i am living a life!!
That again reminded me of one of the valuable thoughts shared by the great visionary Steve Jobs.. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.". Thats a real statement.. How many of us will choose what we are upto right now if we know we are going to die tomorrow???
We always try to be perfect, plan for the future, try to be this and try to be that... Let me say something... Please try to live the day as it is meant to be!!! Never ever ignore or neglect what your heart wants coz you never know when it'll stop pumping!!! Afterall life comes with an expiry date... Live it to the best!!
So find your passion, fall in love, make your mistakes and make further mistakes.... But just ensure that you have lived your life!! Now i would like to repeat the question that echoed my mind the whole day...
What would you get done that you awaited to get done coz you thought you are going to live forever???
