Life is so unpredictable at times, but living in the present is the beauty of life!
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour”.
One minute everything is going exactly as planned and then out of the blue, your whole world crashes down. All it takes is a flick of a button and your world is turned upside down. You never know what sort of event will happen. Who had though at the start of year 2020, that this entire year is going to take down the economy for a toss and that too by whom no enemies, no war, no nuclear threats but a few strain of virus which can eat mankind to the whole.
Who had thought that this year you would be sitting at home spending quality time with family and zooming and video calling with friends, partying digitally ( Wooaahh, digital generation takes the lead here), and thinking now its time to boost immunity in case we need to survive.
Maybe you’re the sort of person who takes one step at a time and could care less what happens next or you’re like me who needs to know what’s ahead. I hate not knowing what will happen 10 years from now. Will I be successful? Will I be married? Will I have kids? Will I be happy? Will I have plenty of friends and family by my side? The questions constantly eat at me and make me wonder what life will look like. Some set of people are those who are pretty concerned and particular about each and everything going on in their lives while the other group of people includes the ones who take everything very lightly.
Don’t you think planning in life is required to a very large extent but life offers us with certain unpredictable situations that planning doesn’t work really. Life is unpredictable. So, it is just better to live every moment and enjoy life to the maximum, not getting worried about things. This unpredictability adds flavor to our lives truly.
It’s frightening to think that one day my parents will simply not be around me, especially when I am so attached to my mother. How will I cope? Will I continue to live without them? In terms of being a mother, I can’t even imagine leaving my 1.5 year old for few hours (motherly bonding).
“ Do not dwell in the past , do not dream of the future ,concentrate the mind on the present moment” – Buddha
You see, there are those who are independent and ones who are dependent. I’d definitely consider myself independent yet I don’t believe I could make it on my own in certain situations.. I often seek advice from others, so if I ever lost that, I have no idea what I would do. I usually ask others their opinion and base mine on theirs. It’s a terrible tactic, but it’s the solid truth. But, in a blink of an eye, life will throw you a curve ball that makes you make a decision then and there. Is there ever a right or wrong decision?
Acceptance and letting go is the key to happiness. Let that be any situation. Living in the present along with acceptance ability is the need of the hour. We cant be dependant like our honourable PM says “Atma- nibharta”. We must realize the fact that the unpredictability adds flavor to our lives; without the various uncertainties in the life, we fail to value it to the proper extent and it loses its meaning as well.
Start enhancing our perspective towards dealing with each and everything life offers to us. If you look at it, living a happy life is very simple; it depends solely on us and our mindset. The unpredictability of life is truly a lesson at times and it is indeed the compulsion to run the natural cycle of human life. Without this, life ceases to be a life without flavor.
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself; in your way of thinking.”
― Marcus Aurelius
So, in these times of pandemic situations, where people are facing mental stress, just a small message – Acceptance is the key, Live in the present and do not think of the future.
