This is us..and we are the luckiest!
Just concluded a trip and like with every thing that ends, this travel concluded with so many emotions ripe with sadness, thoughts of coming back to the same old mundane lifestyle both personal and professional amongst many other not so feel good ones. But every-time, there is this one particular thought which stands out, which ushers me through the aforementioned negative emotions and makes me hopeful. It is the feeling of gratefulness that I was at-least able to experience this wonderful feeling, may be though a trip, a party, a long drive with a special friend or just a casual phone call to that long distant friend whom you don’t talk to frequently now but do stay in touch.
Today also as I went through the same usual process, this time I chose to stick longer with this feeling of gratefulness and explore that why do I get it? why do it I get it only after feeling negative and why don’t I feel it all the time? because it’s a wonderful feeling to have, it fills my lungs with hope and serendipity and it gives me perspective about how beautiful life is and how lucky we are to experience it. In fact the only reason I am putting these words on the paper here is to think clearly and maybe find an answer to these questions in the process.
As I could understand, gratitude comes to us when we realise that there is little we can do about our problem and it becomes tiring/boring to think about our problems, so we change our perspective and think from a sense of positivity.It doesn't mean that you have surrendered to your problems and accepted defeat, it simply means that you realise that there are some problems that are just too bigger than you and that you are just a speck of dust in this forever of a universe. Letting go is the biggest hack and that there is nothing permanent here. Once you shed that imaginary load of a problem, you feel a sense of lightness followed by calm. Obviously it’s far far easier said than done and most of us already know it so the question is then why don’t we or rather why aren’t we able to do it right?
I can speak for myself because that’s the only mind I have access to, so i’ll share why I fail at feeling grateful 24*7. As a tax paying adult of a society, I can choose pretty much how I want to spend my life. I can eat/drink what ever I like, I can travel anywhere my pocket allows, I can browse and watch uncensored content to my heart’s delight for as long as I want, basically do all the things to keep my mind engaged. It’s very easy to be distracted today and as a self attested witness to this statement, I have already received 14 plus notifications on my laptop browser while writing this article. With so many distractions, we don’t think about this life as we should be thinking , in-fact on the contrary we don’t think about our life at all, most of us just go through the motions and keep slogging through from the previous to the next feeling of gratefulness. It’s only during times where we pause that we realise how lucky we are to live this and how big a crime we are committing by not thanking our stars everyday for this opportunity to live another day!
We are simply too immersed in our artificial lifestyle that we don’t realise that although we are a just a tiniest speck of dust in this universe, we are still lucky to be even that. Just think for a second that you didn't get to choose to be brought to this world and if you are fully abled, sound minded, earning member of this society, you are the luckiest member of the-most advanced species that troddles this planet. Isn’t that a perfect reason to say Amen !!
Add to that, you can only do this for 70–75 years[best case scenario] and then you are gone, won’t that make you feel a little scared of the fact that how little a time you have in this world to feel lucky and breathe in that oxygen? I was fretting over a work thing on my trip yesterday but today after feeling the above said, I don’t feel tensed one bit but only lucky to have this life, to have that tough assignment with a tight deadline, to have nagging pain in my back.
Because if not this then what else!?
