Reflective moments
REFLECTIVE MOMENTS
Last night I was taking a walk through some of the posh areas of cuffe parade (Bombay). It was a pleasant night, the July month generally is. My friend told me that he would come along with me but for some strange reason I wanted to go alone just to catch up with myself. It is so true that in moments of solitude great things reveal themselves to you. As I was walking along the quiet roads my mind kept on wandering over the many things that I had to do the following day.
I suddenly told myself Enough. Why not just take some time off to appreciate the wonderful breeze and the lovely swaying of the trees? Drink in the full beauty moment by moment and have gratitude with each breath that you take? After taking many deep breaths, things slowly started clearing in my head and my mind began to sift out all repetitive unnecessary thoughts that most surely are energy draining. I started thinking the following :-
a) Why spend so much time talking on the phone? Is this going to take you any closer to where you want in life? ( I used to spend close to around 2 hours on the phone per day and sacrifice the efficacy of my mind power exercises)
b) Why are you trying to get closer to that girl you met last month? Dont you have better things to do in terms of creating a meaningful day? If you only start jogging and exercising vigorously, your health and appearance would improve a great deal?
c) Instead of constantly trying to build huge muscle why not just focus on reducing the midriff considerably and never sway from that goal? So much for focus.
d) You want a lean body. Look at that old man over there! In case you keep procrastinating forever you will reach that age without ever achieving your dreams. If that is ok by you keep carrying on the way you are
I not only am grateful for all these thoughts and insights but I plan to act on them too. Its just a gentle suggestion from my side to all of you to have such moments of solitude from time to time to get a hold on where you are actually heading. Most of us have always felt at some point in time that time has just flown before we even knew it. Most of us have looked back and wondered where all the time went.
We of course cannot slow or stop the passage of time but what we CAN do is make our days far more meaningful and satisfying by allocating some time for ourselves so that our actions become crisper and direction filled.
