If you were to divide an individual, what would be the fundamental unit that defines the individual?
It would be thought.
Thought makes up attitude and actions.
Thought defines your lifestyle and your life as well.
The easiest way to live in the world is to stop thinking.
Live without a care and live in and for the present moment.
No future - no past.
The phrase from the Lion King Movie -"Ha kuna matata" meaning "no worries" - a problem free life.
But then, there is no guarantee that the life u live in all those years is of any quality or purpose.
To think about oneself and live is hard.
To plan with care the 1st investment, to improvise oneself on ones job, to gain recognition - ambition in one word - all that requires a lot of commitment and planning and toil.
Its not easy.
Then again, the quality of ones lifestyle can be guaranteed at the end of it all... but what about the Quality of the life led, the purpose or sense or meaning of such a life?
Is it calculated to render one total satisfaction???
A majority of people live under the misconception that such a life gives happiness.
The truth is, it gives pleasure and not happiness.
And they are two different things.
To think about the world around you and live is the hardest thing to do.
To think about people living in slums, to think about the people who have to be evacuated because of dam and large infrastructure constructions, to think about the people struck by natural calamities , to think about corruption on a national level and at an individual level, to think about the mindless bloodshed in the stupidity of a sport called hunting, to think about saving water, to think about the environment, to think about street children education and institutions that adhere to the needs of the unprevilleged, to think about communal insecurities and riots which are politically triggered, to think about global terrorism - both state-sponsored and misled militants, about the tyrant whether at a global or a local scale and the suppressed...
I have named very few causes and already it boggles the mind... it suffocates our usually complacent lives.. Doesnt it?
Yet they are part and parcel of the world around us.
Truth is we are living in a world of suffering and each capable individual's passivity contributes to this general suffering.
To think about the world around us and to live is the hardest thing to do.
Because thought always leads to action.
Its not possible to think and then not to act.
But again its not possible for a person to help out in all the causes, but if more people had cared and strived, it would have made life easier for some.
Its past time that someone rephrases the proverb - Live and Let Live..
In today's scenario it should be Live and Help Live.... or we can complete the proverb as Live and Let Live in continued in Misery.
A life which is led for a cause is the life which gives true happiness...
