These days its rare we see happy faces around. I am not saying we see sad faces.
What we see these days are blank faces, expression less faces, lost faces and tired faces.
Energy is being injected by way of capsules.
Why is it ?
The world around us is so competitive, right from the school the competition sets in. While lot of focus is given to , how to win your way to success in this world, very little focus is around knowing yourself, winning yourself.
I see teens so smart and intelligent these days, they can talk on any topic - right from sensex to global warming. But none of them know what they like. Parents and teachers have spend enough to help kids explore the world of knowledge, but have forgotten to teach them to explore themselves.
Every individual is different and has different preferences in life. A similar approach can not mean happiness for all. Today all are part of a similar race. Thus we do what society feels is right , or what majority are doing , and we loose track of what we want to do.
A scientist might feel happy and satisfied by doing a new invention, but a creative person might feel stressed if he is asked to work on it.
There is no right or wrong about this , as it is all about individuals perspective.
Thus it is very important to know ourself - what we like, what gives us satisfaction , what gives us happiness.
We all recall our mothers or grandmothers - their life single motto was to feed people. The used to get immense happiness by just making delicacies and feeding the kids.
They knew they liked it and thus spent so much time on it and were so satisfied at the end of it.
So its not a question of what ? how big ? pleasures can be from daily , basic stuff .
As kids we all have this ability to enjoy little things we do- thus if kids feel over the top even with smallest of things.
As we grow up we tend to do more sophisticated and logical stuff and loose sight of real pleasurable things
While I do understand its not possible to just follow your heart , as for meeting your daily requirements we all need to do stuff where essentially over heart doesn't lie. This is ok. But the point is as long as daily a feed is going into a zone which we like- our job is done.
So if you work for 9 hrs- take 1 hour for yourself where you do a thing that you like.
Trust me that one hour will have such a great impact on you- the blank , lost faces will get the smiles back.
To Do-
What we see these days are blank faces, expression less faces, lost faces and tired faces.
Energy is being injected by way of capsules.
Why is it ?
The world around us is so competitive, right from the school the competition sets in. While lot of focus is given to , how to win your way to success in this world, very little focus is around knowing yourself, winning yourself.
I see teens so smart and intelligent these days, they can talk on any topic - right from sensex to global warming. But none of them know what they like. Parents and teachers have spend enough to help kids explore the world of knowledge, but have forgotten to teach them to explore themselves.
Every individual is different and has different preferences in life. A similar approach can not mean happiness for all. Today all are part of a similar race. Thus we do what society feels is right , or what majority are doing , and we loose track of what we want to do.
A scientist might feel happy and satisfied by doing a new invention, but a creative person might feel stressed if he is asked to work on it.
There is no right or wrong about this , as it is all about individuals perspective.
Thus it is very important to know ourself - what we like, what gives us satisfaction , what gives us happiness.
We all recall our mothers or grandmothers - their life single motto was to feed people. The used to get immense happiness by just making delicacies and feeding the kids.
They knew they liked it and thus spent so much time on it and were so satisfied at the end of it.
So its not a question of what ? how big ? pleasures can be from daily , basic stuff .
As kids we all have this ability to enjoy little things we do- thus if kids feel over the top even with smallest of things.
As we grow up we tend to do more sophisticated and logical stuff and loose sight of real pleasurable things
While I do understand its not possible to just follow your heart , as for meeting your daily requirements we all need to do stuff where essentially over heart doesn't lie. This is ok. But the point is as long as daily a feed is going into a zone which we like- our job is done.
So if you work for 9 hrs- take 1 hour for yourself where you do a thing that you like.
Trust me that one hour will have such a great impact on you- the blank , lost faces will get the smiles back.
To Do-
- To take out time to regularly talk to yourself
- Dig yourself to find out what you love
- Dont judge yourself with what others are doing
- you can be doing exactly the opposite of what the world feels is right - its OK!!
- Invest in yourself
- Dedicate time to pursue what you like.
- Its never too late - START NOW!!
