"Find what you love and let it Kill you!"
How often do we find people who have actually found the true purpose of
their lives? How often do we come across somebody who needs no motivation in life...and
how often do we meet people who inspire the crap out of us by sheer passion of
their own subject!
It’s rare! ...very rare!
My general observation is that majority of us spend almost entire lives
trying to find that "Thing".
Some of us come close and find something that makes us happy and stick to
it. Some of us fail miserably. But most of us just give up. I assume it must
happen around the time when we have more fat on our bellys and less hair on our heads.
What is there to prove anyway...And to whom!
Supposing you have 80 years to live , and you spend 40 years doing something
you know isn’t the thing you are made to do…I can only assume it must be
frustrating.
A guy I met the other day told me that an average man over indulges in something
he tends to like only to lose the attraction quicker. While explaining he asked
me if I liked chocolates, “of course” I replied, “who doesn’t like chocolates!”
He asked me if my father indulged in chocolates as much as me and if my
grandfather indulged at all. “The Research” reveals that when you eat chocolate
your brain releases the same chemicals it does when you are in love. So you
want it more. You eat more and you want it even more…over indulgence causes you
to get neutralized with the chemicals and you can’t feel a thing after that. Done!
You don’t want chocolates anymore. Osho has a similar theory!
“You should be able to eat the chocolate with the same pleasure a kid does
even if you are 80!” He said
Not that I agreed completely with the metaphor, but it does make sense. I recently
made a playlist full of songs I have cherished and worshiped and sung and heard and
could hear over and over again…. I thought! And I did...For almost a month I think...
I still have the playlist in my cell...but it certainly isn’t in my ‘Recently Played’
tab! I am sure the songs are still great…musically enriching, divine...Just
that I am over it.
Does this mean we should keep control over all our indulgence so that we can
maintain the charm?
Who cares! So what if the charm is
gone? So what if the thing I loved the most is just another thing for me now??!!
This external world is only for us to indulge….and to take from, I am sure I’ll
run out of breaths before I can run out of things to over indulge and to get
bored of! I hope.
And while exploring the world around us, separating the ‘To Keep’ from ‘To Throw
Away’ there’s a tiny chance of you coming across that “THING”. Indulge how much
ever you want...it will still be “The Thing”!
If you do find it...You’re lucky...if
you don’t, your life has been one heck of a journey anyway. Cheers!
My life so far has only been a series of discoveries…of what I have loved…and
what I have loved more...or less. ‘This could be THE thing …This is just one of
those things types’. None has transformed into something special. Something that
will make the clock run its ass off. Something that is the inspiration of all
my day dreams…and is the reason for all the coffee beans spilling all night
long!
I have decided I am not going to worry much over ‘where my life is headed
etc’.
Que Sera Sera!
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