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.

A Misty Evening with Nostalgic Effects !!

Nostalgia and Optimism

You might never catch up that flavor of childhood joys and small happenings that made you cry out loud, to live in a moment that you used to be. With the passage of time we learnt the habit of refraining ourselves from having small Fun Moments, and to be at peace with what is going around. This psychological paradigm shift causes us to remain uneasy and keep on regretting what is lost or gone with time.

It is a time to realize that we are going to live in a moment that is all OURS I am just looking at the misty evening from a glass and realizing that I couldn't get my feet out to enjoy the RAIN and Smell of Soil. I didn't feel that urge to be outside and wet my whole being with the raindrops that are coming to give me a moment of forgetfulness. Why it has happened with me as I used to be a person who could go on long walks whenever I saw little clouds at any corner of the sky.

Does it happen due to the gadget filled modern life and the liabilities that are stretching my nerves? Whatever the reason is but I have realized one thing for sure that I am missing ‘Myself ‘and with that I am losing a chance to rejuvenate myself to fight for bigger battles that are happening inside and outside. So what is wrong with having a bath in the showering rain? Does it make me seen as an insane man and if I spend long hours of watching movies or playing game on my laptop then it is just too perfect!

Actually we all are victims of so-called social changes that we like to adopt, and then find an excuse for not able to enjoy small things in life. We keep on waiting for the bigger things and achievements, and forget to live in Present with all its beauty and a chance to nourish our Souls!

It is time to break the rules that we have implemented on ourselves and just keep on looking for small adventures. I want to run across fields without any concept of looking at what others think of me. I want to take slides and turn to swim in streams and to have a ride on bicycle.

I can do it as everyone else can. Only thing necessary is to fight back that modern man’s dilemma to keep on doing best, and pose as the one who is just fit for an executive type personality. Refresh the child inside you, and then you will see how much motivated and active you will be for a normal life, after having an experience like that!

The Emotional Decline Leading US All to be Mechanical Beings!!

 

I think it is a tragedy with most of youth these days. They are assigned to do some other things and they live in a dreamy world that is far different one from reality. Then the real twist in tale comes when they reach at a destination that tells them to either stop or mold their capacities to do something ALL Different. Here is the time when a person cries out loud inside “where I am heading for?”I see it as a great dilemma for most of people of the modern world.

We are living an already semi-robotic life that is full of gadgets and smart technologies. Then we are not sure what will be introduced on a new day when we wake up, and all our resources and energies would no more be wanted for the past thing that we were working on. Another situation arises that the anxiety and stress of modern day’s jobs has killed the natural instinct to enjoy Nature and Beauty in it TRUE Form!

We want to surpass everything by having just a superficial look. How many people want to read a whole book with a patience to understand the wisdom that is present on each page? We want to end the story before it begins and it is so clearly visible in our relationship histories as well. We can’t wait for other person to show us the different aspects of his or her personality. After all every individual human being is a whole universe but nobody wants to give that chance to others, to reveal the real self like rose petals. 

The determination to carry the philosophy to “Move ON” has killed the softer side of our natures in a general sense. That is why we feel more attached to machines, and even to movies that depict the relationship of man and machine, instead of man to man. It is psychological decline that we can no longer associate ourselves with human instincts and want to see all those things in a mechanical form. The degeneration of value of Human Being has made us animated to some extent, and it keeps on spreading in our societies if we do not try to make an individual as well as collective effort.