always searching for those wasted years.
Face up, make your stand,
and realise you are living in the golden years....
- Iron Maiden
According to me, there are two categories of people in this world. One, those who believe everything happens for a reason; that all the entities existing in this universe have a purpose to serve. Second, those who believe that everything happening around is just another coincidence; one’s presence in a particular situation is a mere concurrence. Well, I categorically belong to the first category. But I do not question the other stand. This belief is like faith – you have to respect others’ as well. I am no expert on this controversy; there must have been countless debates over this topic in the world. Every religion speaks of it – taking either of the sides. These ideas, obviously as expected, have certain similarities and differences. Speaking about differences is not my cup of tea. The similarities, on the other hand, are the most experienced.
How many times have I asked myself – what am I doing here? Probably the count goes beyond my knowledge of numbers. For different people, for different situations, the ‘here’ in the question is, of course, different. But in the end, it refers to the same pinnacle of redundant confusion; sometimes sarcastically, sometimes in the hope for an answer. Just give a thought to this – when you are thinking about something negative that has happened in your past, you are making this very moment a sad one as well. Unfortunately, unlike mathematics, two negatives do not make a positive in life. One more negative memory, one more wasted moment in your life. It is but natural for human beings to waste time. I know that is not good. But what is worse is, cribbing about how I wasted my time then. Probably that is the worst way to waste time, in case the process of wasting time has degrees. Every person in this world would have had, at least once in his life, the serious apprehension of what he is up to. Instead, why don’t you just say – ‘Ok, whatever happened was past, I cannot change it. But the present is in my hands. This is the best time of my life.’ Believe me; this will do wonders for you. You must have heard the old saying – Past is history. Future is unseen. Today is a gift, and that is why we call it ‘present’.
I might sound like a hypocrite, giving unsolicited advice which I myself don’t follow. But hey, just tell me how do you feel when you flip through an album of your old friends. Bliss, isn’t it? That is because of the moments ‘you’ created. Decide for yourself – how do you want your today to be remembered tomorrow – something you’ll look back with regret, or something which will bring the urge within you to relive these moments again. Ultimately, it all boils down to you, my dear fellas. At this point, I would like to quote a line by Rajesh Khanna in Anand – Life should not be long, it should be big. How true. What is the use of a long life if you have nothing to look back and smile upon, shed tears and be proud of? Only you have the right to decide the course of your life. So, my sincere advice – Stop wasting time and start ‘goldenising’ it. Because life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away….
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