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...
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A very thoughtful write up indeeed. But don't you think that we are all passive human beings, who think, but very rarely analyze thoughts, n still remotely act/respond..?
Hmm Reshmi.. Its true all of us think - but the question is about what?? I have come across lots of people who live in a virtual cocoon of their life and limit themselves to superficial existence. Its always about "my success", "my sorrow", "my happiness", "my significance", "my career", "whats due to me from others and from life", "why God does this to me alone"... Its always about "me", "my", "mine", "I".. thats the center theme of our thoughts often.. It takes more effort to think beyond and I have seen very few people who spend time thinking in depths about causes, trying to collect information, wanting more people to know about things, trying in the smallest way to make a difference. I am sure if someone starts thinking - I mean thinking.., not to give a passing thought and then to forget - these thoughts will lead to action somewhere.. I dont believe in anything called passive thinking. Thought is a powerful medium that influences actions, attitudes and through us the world around.
And.., again thanx for the comment and the encouragement. U r the 1st and only reader I have, and I havent told people about my blogging yet for some reason... Probably because I never thought of an audience. So, it felt especially nice when u read it and gave comments on it.. :-)
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i jus love ur thoughts...
hey hey, you have too many complex issues in this single thought train, take one at a time and you will find reason for far more optimism...and BTW, the 'me' is always important. Whatever others say & do, you are the 'me' and the 'me' has to keep going. So treat the 'me' with some indulgence too...try reading a bit about the 'objectivism' ayn rand preached.
neermathalam and maddy..,read ur comments now. I dint check or update my blog for a long while.Thax to "neermathalam" for the encouraging response.And thank you Maddy for adding your insight to this..I will try and research on objectivism as u have suggested and see whether my outlook will change. As of now, the stand I have taken on "me" (even as I wrote the blog) is that me is important, but lets get out of the "me" and "I" once in a while and think of they and we and us.And yes, I have taken out too many issues at one go..but I am sure that those issues are existing issues and have been here for a long time. I just made sure that "me" doesnt blind me from the bare truth that goes around me.
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