Life

Have we all forgotten the importance of living? Real Living? Where we can enjoy each moment of our life and take the good and the bad in stride. Are we too much into trivial matters and petty thinking and driven by greed? We are speeding through life, hurriedly looking for the next acquisition that will make us happy and in doing so we are losing out on the real joy in our life. In the pursuit of the unattainable, driven by a greedy attitude, we lose out on the meaning of real living and do not enjoy and cherish what we have.
It is always a different world that we are looking for be it politically, socially or economically. But never the one we live in. The grass seems to be greener always on the other side. Like someone once said, "The world is pretty much like an a la carte restaurant where everybody thinks the food the next table has ordered is so much more delicious and inviting than his own." In the process we lose out in the real joy of eating. We keep on looking over and wondering how the other person must be savoring his dishes, how much more he must be enjoying. In the pursuit of the ideal, we forget that the ideal is nothing but a situation that beckons us from distance that, when it is attained, becomes a reality that has it's own troubles and problems to overcome. When the ideal becomes a reality it loses its charm. It is just like the horizon once you reach it; it changes. There is always another horizon beyond the horizon. So the ideal is something that changes with the acquisition. And then we search for another ideal. Every situation in life is a package deal of good and the bad. And however much one tries to filter out the bad, it always trickles in.

Celebrate what you have, enjoy what you have. Enjoy your life.