Footprints of Life

Life! The more we define it, the more undefined it seems. My inspiration for writing this blog is just sharing my experiments on life which works for me. This is quite important because I see so many dull faces around me, which I cannot uphold. Though I assume that you will relate what I say, to your experience, experiment them, use your common sense and then accept or reject my words. So my blog is like a poetic experience which will make you flow through certain thoughts which I felt made me feel so much energetic and left me completely satisfying. So let me begin,

8:00 AM in the morning, Life says : Good morning dear!
but just after a few moments you remember,

OMG, I had to go to lecture!,
or important meeting, and you just freak out!,
you are running like anything throughout the day,
and what for?
For a next terrible nightmare
When I view people like this I just feel like saying, stop!
wait for a second,
rewind back your memories,
10 years ago, when you dreamed something,

was it this?
Life has become like a terrible endless race


I asked my colleague during my tenure at corporate,
How is life going? His reply was
Everything is going except life.

I consider this a right time to tell you an inspiring story of DeCarte. A mathematician who invented Cartesian Geometry. Do you know How did he invent all this? He never liked school and so used to sleep with blankets on. and in the darkness of blanket, was this Cartesian geometry born!
Take bill gates or any great person,

Those who have cared too much of others have never become special.
From childhood you have been told lots of things with great confidence, as if they are true, in school you were told, what a luxurious life an engineer has, you became someone else's dream and the bubble broke, when you realized that life hasn't changed much. You are still worried, you are still unsatisfied, you are still broken. Nothing has changed. I asked same people who had motivated me for becoming engineer and they told, that is how life is, it always gives hiccups. I learned one thing from this experience of life :

Greater fools are not me, but those who told me idiotic philosophies, because if it didn't work for them why did they tell me? Why did they all lied to me?

Now let me tell you the truth,
If you only lived each moment of life like a theatric performance, you would have never been annoyed. 

If only the performance with involvement mattered more than success or failure in it, or what audience comments, you would have never been annoyed.
 

Have you watched Friends?  Do you know Pheoby Buffey in it? Just youtube her convocation.
To summerize her speech,
She told that when she thought of becoming an actress, she herself was freaked out. She got into very good TV serial(Fraisure) , she thoroughly prepared for 2 weeks and then she was fired, she got into other serial, her part was small but due to others non performance, she again lost her chance and finally got into Friends. The Friends!
She tells that amongst so many ups and downs of life she learned few things
-Learn to be insensitive to comments of people, which will in turn make you sensitive to Life

-Learn to give away your best in terms of involvment, small small details irrespective of pressure time,people and conditions around you put to you. Even if equations of life don't work for you, some day they will be appreciated for sure 100%. Don't trust me? At least know that  you will feel a very satisfied for doing your part completely.


Right now what is happening? My rommie is going for 12 hrs of study, I have to get up, get worried, study more. Or all people are working 12 hrs in my office, I must get worried, do work, or I will be no where in race of life. This is preconception what society has put in your heads. But is it true.


Child with brushes in his hands
When you were a child, and when your teacher told, Draw a painting.

If you were to drew it getting completely involved, drawing borders, drawing even small small veinations of trees, the shades of the clouds, the roughness of the floor, birds in sky, its eyes, and all small small details, it would come out to be absolute fantastic masterpiece of yours.


But if she told, you have to draw 100 pictures in 12 hours, how would you draw? Pathatic!

That is what is happening, and then you are competing, He drew 20 pictures, Let me also draw 10 pictures. Than what is the point of drawing if you are not actually enjoying the journey, even your performance is worse than the worst?

Life is the same, nothing different. So go get some breath and think about it



Seclusion is not a bad word

In office or in school, which are the most cherished moments in life? When you are sitting under a tree, just watching rain drizzling on people. When you are in a theatre watching the ending scene. Or even thinking or feeling some intense emotion or though. How were you?
Were you surrounded by too many people talking too many things to you about survival skills? No! 

Seculsion brings clarity and deeper perception in life and is the sole catalyst of growth.

! But don't compare seclusion with loneliness, Loneliness in negetive state of self denial, while seculsion is adoring the beauty of the moment.

Rabindranath tagore, Lone writer of National anthem of two nations(India and Bangladesh) (Noble price winner) , left school in 7th grade

If you are speaking to too many people and listening to too many suggestions, you are bound to get affected. It is important to protect the serine moments in you, and keep it allof from the thunders of ruthless mentalities. Some things just don't pay of. 

But if you have some really good friends,(not chatterboxes) but who genuinly feel you, when you talk to them, be with them completely.
You are solving a problem, your focus is on problem and you are talking to your good friend. How will it feel? 

You are not doing anything with complete attention. It feels bad from friends perspective and eventually you are disrespecting both work and friendship.

Even talking is not important in friendship, but it is the unspoken feeling and that connection which plays a role in friendship. Sometimes I never uttered a work with my friend Varun and yet we conveyed ourselves completely to each other. Strange but true. Do you have to play tricks of flattery words on your mother, like you play on girlfriend? No! because that love is by default on a high level.

Still the highest love can always be found when you do everything in life with devotion, with great attention. Then and then only you,your entire life will then fall in love with everything  with deep adoration of the magnanimity of events around you.


Take care of your association

If suppose, you are in middle of extremely worried and wrecked people, one day you will neglect them, second day you will neglect them, third day you will catch the disease. It takes great power and determination to rise above power of association. So take great care of which type of people you are with, because that will decide what type of person you are. Suppose you arn't able to change external association, atleast don't allow them to penitrate withing you, by least interraction.

My recent Experience of Learning Bengali

It pays off to be creative and exuberant in some or other way. Too much narrow shrinking of success makes us experience life to a lesser intensity. Learning new thing is always an awesome experience. By this I discovered that no matter what happens, Life has always something new to offer.
 If you limit life, by compulsive behavior, it will take its toll.Life by its very nature is expansive. Not in terms of going 10 countries in life time, but in terms of equal openness to things around you. Things around you mean a larger definition including subtle things like observing ups and downs of emotions, etc.

Life is great teacher, if you are willing and receptive to learn quickly


I also observed one important thing, at first all the letters seemed strange, but soon I associated each letter with sound. So as soon as I speak अ  a symbol named অ comes to my mind. How strange is life. Slowly this belief becomes rigid. And then I start understanding অ as अ . After 10 years no one can say,  अ  means এ . We have symbolized things in world, doesn't mean they are actually that. But at first, I always had fresh mind. Mind is indeed powerful. Mind can associate and it can only dissociate. But Power of mind fails to understand itself, for tongue needs brain(superior) to understand it. So mind needs something beyond its reach to understand itself. Children always observe best, and are most happy! because they are not steriotyped. For them, things are always fresh. Hard task is for us, to learn things yet, be open to different interpretations in life. 


Today, I was able to relate things so well while learning Bengali, only because I was open to learn, and I was paying 100 percent attention, with same excitement while watching a movie.
I didn’t care about what will happen if I won’t learn, it didn’t matter, what I cared was that I enjoyed the journey of learning like a movie experience.
Thats how life should be, who cares what competition is, I will do with my complete attention.
Devotion is that only
WORD OF CAUTION
If only I were to give a word of caution, I would give it against lust and greed. Why so? Because these things will make you silent to experiences outside.A greedy or a lustful man only experiences weird biased thoughts. I am not telling it is not necessary. It has its
 role. It has its role for continuation of progeny(lust) and sustenance(greed), but over stretching it will make you terribly ill. Ill in terms of coldness that It will bring. Watch the faces of such people, feel them irrespective of your own biased feeling, and you will realize how cold have they become. How cold. For no reasons are they suffering. I am not wishing to dictate you, life has given everyone free choice,
but to quickly learn and move on. Some dreams are not worth your efforts. It is one of them. USA is most comfortable country yet terribly ill in terms of experiencing vibrancy, just because it stretched body to everything. Gravitation is force which works, whether you know it or not. Similarly there are some things which
 work irrespective of your knowledge of it. Don’t take it like fanaticism, take it like something which brings you to low peaks in this movie, recover quickly and bounce back fast, for life is limited,
you don’t have time to do all kinds of mistakes to learn. Learn it by becoming more receptive, and then you will not have to go through torturous experiences.
 - Be jovial

I judge a person based on how much he is enjoying little moments of life, Is there a genuine smile or enthusiasm on face? Is he/she feeling truly satisfied or enjoying, especially when no one is around him/her ? 
I have always found right answers most of the times.

Lastly I have always discovered,

knowledge or world is like endless forest, the more you get in, the more you are lost!

Only thing that has sustained me in remaining happy most of the times is deep Meditation! It is only thing that has always worked. Life suddenly seems so fresh and I am just like a fresh page. So just try it.

If only you close your eyes and ears by your hand! How freedom it is to just be what you truely are. You are what you are. Movies come and go, but you will go on forever like Titanic.