THE ART OF LIVING


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Gotta something to share.

 

While having a sneak peak from the hostel back window where no one amongst us would like to have a peak a boo, Not just because its dark out there but because there's a slum right down there... Not as big as Seemapuri but not as shallow as the heart of people living in mansions in south Delhi(Oh that would be too shallow) I just got a gasp at a girl over down there and I was stunned, I saw a little girl and she was laughing with her family as if fluffy himself was cracking a pun right over there... Not sure they knew who Gabriel Iglesias was!


 From where I was standing at the window of my room, I can say l would have traded my every single fiber to have that carefree laugh.That twinkling little sparkle in eyes.. ahh gosh!! That's so rare. Isn't it a strange fact that l'm paying a fancy amount for this accommodation so I can get a job and be happy in near future and still I'm struggling with my inner peace. She was my age,happy, carefree and wild. Who says the whole generation is broken.. not all!!!


The pressure of getting settled has gotten on our nerves so bad that we have given our happiness as the collateral. We think we want stability and we have figured it all out, getting a job at 23, earning for next 2 years getting a car at 25 or earlier and then dating our favourite person and finally marrying at 28. When a single of the bulleted point falls out of line we go ecstatic. Okay my friends are doing job at 23 and my ass is still unemployed, Oh I’m doomed!.  Its 28 and unmarried, what’s even the point now? Sometimes the answers to these questions are a toll on our emotional being and we can not even fathom our living beyond that point. 


Sometimes this insatiable hunger for ticking our predefined boxes instigates us to be miserable rather happy. We keep doing toxic jobs, relationships, friendships, courses just to be better in the longer run though there is no longer run. A student of 17 year committed suicide after getting into IITs because he thought his score weren’t enough. Who normalised getting settled at 23 and marrying at 28? Who normalised relating happiness with luxuries. You can have an extravagant jet and still be miserable. You can be the girl living in a slum and still be happy and wild.


The only problem l could have it thinking, we are rooting too deep for future or past that we are lost in present. We've levied too many burdens for our desires. It's not work that's bothering but the weight of aspirations.Who got us irked into this race? Why don't we try to be a better version of ourselves and be kind. Being bit more alive in present, than to be a part of an insane race for a better tomorrow.Why don't we?


 We gotta understand there's always another day. Another chance,another love, another best friend.sometimes you have to let that go and wait for that ‘another’. Not always don't give up can do its best. Some days you should give up because that's what your present demands. Start living and stop planning to live.Hustling and despair are two different thing, latter should never be you. Enjoy the ride, live in the moment, do things that makes you alive because in the end everyone's going to die and you don't want to look down the road and say Alas! I could have been happy. Don't just visit the world, live as if you were meant to be.

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  1. The reality everyone know but no one dare to speak out...I feel you...you have described it very well..a sad reality of our generation.keep up the good work 😘

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  2. amazing.....concept...loved...it..

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  3. Astound. If it hadn't been penned , would be a loss on us .

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  4. Beautifully written. Thoughts are well described.. Can relate it... Keep writing ❣️ best wishes 👍

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    1. I will try to keep with the expectations with future blogs

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