A few observations - Vol 2

Status message is one the coolest and revolutionary concepts introduced by the IM clients, I am more drawn to this concept by the Google Talk. I doubt if the creator of this feature had actually envisioned about it to this extent. Apart from conveying our status at work, availability to talk and mood, it gives a little more insight into the current lifestyle philosophy of the user - especially if he quotes something that he recently came across. All this introduction is to reinforce my finding of a status message which reads as: The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

The important things to remember about the above quote are the words 'wisely' and 'earnestly'. I had been hitting on such stuff from childhood and always read through it superficially. So I never ingrained such things. It sounds clichéd when you just say someone to forget the past, don't worry about the future and live in the present. It adds more sense when it is said to live in the present wisely and earnestly. Very rarely I follow something good earnestly and I always skim over such concepts in life. To live the present moment is to feel the finer details of life and learn to flow with reality. It also means to truly cherish, if not all events, the great moments experienced. These events are to be cherished because all these happened with us are real and thus should be very clear about their irrevocability.

[ This thought process was also partly inspired by the movies 'The Notebook', 'Reign Over Me' and 'Once'. This post could be because of this movie overdose all of which either convey or showcase the relations from a heavier angle. I doubt if such a thought process in me is actually in sync with generally accepted normality of humans. I would hate it being interpreted in any other way. ]

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

A few observations

I have a set of thoughts which continue to reappear and these are spread over the large set of my activities. 'Thoughts' could be broadly classified as the ones that cause the fear in me and those which trickle my fantasies to the extent of making them appear real.

I consider myself still an amateur and also lazily stay away from that little straining of my mind to aptly articulate my thoughts. Without spoiling the intent of this initiation I could list some of them immediately like ...

• afraid to talk to a girl who would be saying - 'I should go', in a conceivable future.
  
• afraid that I lose my dreams and would later have to convince my selves that it couldn't have been done the other way.
  
• concerned that I would be a victim of circumstances rather than able to control them.
  

And then I pondered over the above list only to find that the last two conveyed a superficial meaning and the first one definitely shows off how amateur I am. Strictly speaking I am not flowing with the reality and I don't want to be unfortunate because of this. I am, could be carried away by all these sweet movies which seem to exaggerate the emotions flying in a human mind or could be drowned in an illusory bubble created by myself. Reality is much more simple and its me who is making the journey difficult by entangling myself with this huge number of ideas/dreams whatever.

From the bottom of my heart I hate pondering on such issues and my old friends would feel weird to see me blogging on topics of this dimension. From the same bottom I couldn't help getting hit again and again by these things and to stay composed despite feeling this way would be against my newly updated principles.

These observations shall keep coming up. Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.