LIFE

Who doesn’t have problems? Who doesn’t find life imperfect and who doesn’t crib once in a while? Or at least spend a moment in melancholy solitude regretting something. We all do. Life is good but many times not good enough. But life is about all those not -so-good-enough moments after all.

You can sink to the deepest darkest pits of  self pity and sorrow and let circumstance and time drift you to unknown locations of depression and ‘loser-ness’(if I may say so). But you can also go about it differently. Surprise yourself…shock life itself!

• Get yourself the most colourful huge delicious ice cream and walk off. On the road. Care not about the people staring at you. Nor about the melted ice cream ruining your sleeve. Or the dogs barking. Or that stupid rickshaw driver honking his horn. Or that low gloomy thought which had made things difficult. Or what he or she said the other day. Or what they meant to say. Or what you think they meant to say. Or what they didn’t say. Let go.

Eat it like a child. Set yourself free.

• Sing. Aloud. Shamelessly. And if this is coming from me, trust me you have to be really shameless to sing aloud with a voice like mine. Add your own illogical rhyme or beat to it. Go high or whatever that is called. Makes those intense expressions. Feel the song. Live the song. Don’t care about the world. They never cared about you.

• Go to the beach. Watch the waves crashing onto the coast. Breathe in the salty air. Observe the amazing sunset. The beautiful colour shades that nature has to offer. Get lost in the horizon…in the serene enormity of the ocean. Clear your mind. Listen to those waves. Their ever-changing yet uniform movement can make you sit there for hours.

• Walk. Keep walking. With no destination. No, not with loud songs playing through your i-pod headsets. Just walk. Think about life. About insignificant events. And feel good. Or bad. But feel something. Stop going numb. Analyze life. Find a way out of the rocky paths of life. Keep walking till you are sorted out.

• Look around. People around you are going through worse. You are lucky; cheer up. Go help someone who needs it. Life would be greener. For him. For  you.

Let’s stop waking up only because its morning. Get up because it is one more day God has gifted us to make the best of. Every moment is unique and special. Because it’s not coming back. Ever. Let us make ourselves believe that life isn’t about just living, it is about LIVING it the jhataak style!