LIFE (The Art of Living)

The most challenging, intriguing & very complex question I have ever faced in my Life is “What is Life?”

Although, this question is buzzing me from many years; one thing I have realized is, I won’t get rid of this monster until I get the answer. I am sure many of you, would have also faced the same question, few lucky fellows might have got the answer & few others would have ignored it due to the lack of time, & rest might have convinced themselves that they are not some Sadhu Mahatma to find answer for this. There is another category of people, who doesn’t even have time to allow such questions to trouble their life. This category of people may look lucky at a first glance, but when they look back into their lives’ they might regret for wasting their precious time.

Does this mean, I have got answer now? Well, read further…

To get the answer, I had discussion with my friends, put this question many a times in my Gtalk status bar, gone through few articles, but never got a convincing answer. Then, one midnight when I was walking on sea shore of Hong Kong, I told myself, enough is enough, today I have to get the answer.

I started my analysis by looking at the common man’s life, what is their life? Get up in the morning, rush for everything, reach office, finish the work, come home physically tired & mentally stressed, some days have some good conversation some other days yell for something, have dinner & sleep. Is this the life I am looking for… naa, definitely not! Then, I thought about some great personalities, like scientist, “Newton”, what is their life? Day & night do some research; spend the whole life in inventing something, scarifying the personal life. Then what do they get by being so great, yeah one thing they get is satisfaction. This “Satisfaction” is very important. Does this mean, we all have to become scientists?? naa… whatever work we are doing, if we are satisfied at the end of the day, it is worth of doing. Then, the next question is, am I satisfied with my work, answer may be “Yes/No”. As a software engineer, I would be happy if my program runs without bugs, but the satisfaction someone gets by doing some social work is entirely different by running a programs or project successfully. Does this mean, we all have to resign our jobs & start doing some social work… hmm “NO”. I don’t want to sacrifice my personal life by doing social work so early in my life. Then, I thought about the life of Sachin Tendulkar, he earns lot of money, everyone loves him, respects him, is that the ideal life? But, then playing cricket is his job as I write programs. So, he is also like a common man, does his duty, comes home & sleeps. Last person’s life, I imagined is of Prime Minister’s, “Dr. Manmohan Singh”, oops scary!! He not only has to find answers for his questions, but he has to deal with the entire country’s problems, compromise his ideals for the sake of his party. No, I am happy what I am. Am I? hmm…may be no…

Then, I devided “Life” into two parts, personal life, & professional life.

Firstly, what is personal life, what do we do actually in this part? Well the answer is, stay with parents, have our own family, wife/husband, then kids, take their responsibilities, grow them up, see them get married, have kids, then one final day, Good bye to this life! Is this the life I am looking for… answer is definitely “No”. Then thought if answer is “No”, why am I living, shall I jump into the sea now? Hmm…don’t have courage. But this is “The Life”, I can’t escape from it. Only thing I can do is, make it more interesting. Next question is how to make it interesting, well, we can make it interesting by living every moment of our life, spend good time with friends, partner, children, parents, pets, etc., Now, it depends on person-to-person that, what is the definition of “Living every moment of life, Spend Good time”. Well, according to me for most of us it would be, “Be Happy always, Laugh from your heart, Be satisfied, Give some time to yourself to think about your life”. But, Causion! If you give time to think about your life, then you may have to go through all this, what I am going through…

Secondly, what is professional life, why do we work? The truth is we work for money. Although, money is not everything in our life, but without money, we can’t have the life that we want to live. It should not happen that, we start considering our work as some burden, thinking money is our necessity & we have to work. Better start enjoying the work. One thing that needs to be kept in mind is, “We work to Live, Not, Live to work!” Once we start enjoying our work, we would find new dimension to our life. If, we always have something more to achieve, we would always find work (life) interesting. Best way to live the life is, Challenge it.

Now, to conclude this article; “What is life?” Well, “Life is all about Living it!!” It is up to the individual how each lives his/her life. According to me, life can be better lived by pursuing your hobbies, like Photography, Drawing, Writing Novels, Travelling etc., your hobbies are the ones that, you really never get bored of.

“Be Happy, Be Satisfied”.

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