Sometimes It is Good to Revisit Our Past to have Reality Checks…!!

Life, History, and Reality

I am supposed to be an optimistic person with a motivation to lead my life, and a vision to stay in the present moment as it is the only time we have. But, it is not always the case as visiting our past and revisiting history for the sake of learning and finding how man builds and destroys his individual or collective life. My visit to the past was somehow unplanned, and it started with a movie that I had watched around twenty years back. There was a favorite actor of mine in it, and he was one of the most dashing, smart, and stylish actors of that time. I wonder if his looks and style are still up to the present time fashion. 

That’s how some people stay ahead of time and can display something that is called the evergreen sort of thing. I had a flash of memories associated not with that film but with the period, and the age when I first watched it. The depressive issues, problems, and the vigor to conquer the world in those youthful times were visualized again. Then I kept on comparing my present time lifestyle, the issues, my mindset, and how I have transformed. 

In many cases, I am much more strong, self-awareness and wisdom might be more. But the vigor, enthusiasm, and charm, and attraction towards life are quite lessened. I was trying to find out the real meaning of life right now. Why and how people are so much indulged in running behind the material world, false emotions, fallacies, and fall from grace for the sake of other mortal humans. Who left us long ago without giving a second thought and value to our love, feelings, and emotions? What was the use of trying to be in the hearts and minds of others when in the end others use us for their pastimes, and for having a listener and compassionate person in their tough times?

That’s how life is as an old film watched again gave me food for thought and a whole track to rethink how and why we have wasted so much time is useless things. At the current time, we are closer to our deaths as the end seems to give me another direction, to work for a collection of stuff that will be the real asset in the afterlife, not the one for the purposeless investment into this mortal world. But, we have to pass the remaining time in this world, as we have to learn, provide a better life for people who are dependent on us, and to strive for a better lifestyle as I am not twenty years younger as like the time of the movie that I watched. 

It is a bit of a sad but interesting thing to see that a young and handsome man as a hero in the film is also old, with obesity and age has taken away his glory youthful charm. That’s how I resemble the blooming flower and then it’s fading and falling away, petal by petal and as a pale worn-out unwanted object. Ahhh! The strange facts of life are not going to change for anyone. 

Here, I would like to quote one of the most beautiful novels that came in the last two decades. Arundhati Roy in her novel “God of Small Things”. When she talked about the character Ammu, who was 31 years old, and she used the phrase “a dieable viable age”. This sentence still haunts me with being closer to all viable to die at any moment. SO, it’s time to prepare for the final destination, and to look and pray for the best things that are promised by God Almighty in Paradise, and to work on it instead of keeping grudges, hatred, jealousy, revenge, pessimism, and other useless emotions in our hearts, minds, and souls anymore.

Real Earnings of Life – A Query !!

 

Motivation and Desire to Live wit Peace of Mind

When I was a teenager then I listened to a poem by a famous Urdu Poet “Ibn Insha”. He wrote in a very beautiful and in a river flow manner about LIFE and what Human Beings really earn out of this short span of time on Earth. Yes! We are no this planet for a short time, and even don’t know when our end will come. Death is waiting for each soul like a hawk is waiting for its prey to capture!

We are blindfolded with ‘Worldly Passions and Desires’ and forget about this greatest reality that is intact with us from the time of our births. So the poet who had developed cancer to a last stage was asking or in fact begging to God Almighty, to grant him some more days of ‘Life as a Loan’. As he had to perform many duties, and say his love things to those with whom he was always able to remain in a state of unsaid relationship!

Life is really an ILLUSION and only our Instinct of Survival gives us direction to work on plans. But do you really think that everybody in present days or in past has or had spent his or her life in a positive way? A Big NO! I am sure you will agree to my point as we all have read in History Tales that people ruined and crushed whole nations and civilizations for their lust of the world and material things, and to have a desire to remain in history forever!

It is not a matter of discussion here that Hitler, Picoche, Edie Amin, Pharaohs, Alexander the Great or other known names are still alive in our books. Though they were on negative side of life and dealings with others! We are still watching the Films and Television Serials on barbarous acts of Greek or Roman Elites. But have you ever given it a second though as what those people took with themselves. Even if you do not believe in “Afterlife” as I do then still my query stands right here!

Don’t you think that those people turned into dust particles, nitrogen or ashes mixed in soil or water? Whatever remains are the historical monuments or the great buildings but what they got out of all cruelty and barbarism? Nothing to be true! So why not we all start to think about Humanity and its Miseries and Pains as a Collective Issue! 

Who knows what is happening to them in life hereafter, and if you do not believe in it then won’t you agree that it was even more for a momentary pleasure what they did? They are in the history and minds of people as the negative of evil personalities, and we remember them as brutes and whatever not to say. So to love humanity and to try to make peace in this present world of ours must be a simple quest for everyone. 

If we are fair enough then we can start it from ourselves and this positive vibe to save human beings from further tortures, pains, killings and other kinds of evil activities will definitely vanish out of this world. It will be a Heaven like experience right here on earth, even before experiencing it in real. Won’t you agree with my point of view, and I will love to have your democratic port of views for sure. Thank you readers!!