Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Your life is too fast. You got to slow down brother !!


Wow . Hold on ‘brother’. First of all, what did you say? Yeah, you get to hear those saintly philosophical words time to time, if you are successful and you ask someone for help !! As a kid I liked to travel a lot in bus. Yeah the typical super express NH-17 bus to hell, direct ticket !! :P So when I got into bus, I usually try to sit in the last row of seats near to the door, just next to the conductor or cleaner( I don’t know who coined this profession). So that was my favorite seat. Cool breese blowing to your face, lot of people to watch, getting into and out of bus. But my most favorite moment is to watch the tar road pass by very fast as the bus moved. So I used to wonder how fast the bus was, but in reality the bus was not that fast. Then after sometime I used to feel nausea and terrible so I would immediately shift my eyesight towards a faraway view. Which almost never moved. Then when I felt better, I would again watch to the road below footboard move terribly fast.




I am sure most of you have experienced this phenomenon as a kid or adult. I feel there is a learning in this to take away. When the bus is moving, and when you look at the road just below, it creates an illusion that your life is fast. The person who is outside watching the bus will also see that the bus is moving fast. However, you and only you know when to stop looking the road below, and not the person outside the bus. Secondly, when you feel like your life is moving uncontrollably very fast, just focus on the long term goals because when you focus on short term goals too much, the time limit is so less that you get an illusion of moving fast. So just like we look at a far view from a bus to get back to normal condition, concentrate on the long term goals. The more far the long term goal is the better because from the bus when you look at the sun or star or moon, it feels like we are not moving at all !!



Just an analogy to share with you. My favorite line, “I am neither RIGHT  nor WRONG, because my thoughts are CENTERed, around the people I observe and the incidents I experience. So believe it or let it be !!” :P

Remember when you see the moon, sun or star from the bus and you feel dizzy. Its time to get down of the bus and walk for some time !! J

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