When you don’t realize how time has flown, immersed in work, when breaks to feed a rumbling stomach do not trouble you, when you come up for air only when somebody reminds that you have not taken a breath, you know you have found your calling, you have found your ‘flow state’.
When you have found your calling, you have found a life of joy.
I ponder over what to discuss in today’s post, when a fly buzzes
in front my eyes. It’s one of those tiny flies, one that the eye can barely
perceive. I can only feel and hear it. I cannot see it. I hit and clap randomly in the air but to no
avail. It continues to irritate me. So I decide to take a break and walk around
in my room.
I come back ten minutes later and pull out my swivel chair.
It seems to have disappeared and I can once again get on with my work in peace.
So many things in life seem to work this way. Give it a rest
and we feel better after a while. We get new perspective and the problem seems
to have cleared itself out.
Let us learn to give ourselves breaks when we feel like it,
so we can be more efficient when we really ned to be.
‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’
Keats began his poem ‘from Endymion’ with these great lines.
If we want to hold joy in the cup of our palm and the cockles of our heart, we have to find that thing which defines beauty in our eyes - anything that you find beautiful and connect to it, so you can be joyful, however fleeting the ‘forever’ part is.
It could be a quiet evening in silence, a session of meditation or a great book.
Personally, I find the power of words, very beautiful. To immerse yourself in the craft of weaving words – whether you are writing or appreciating what has been written is, for me, finding joy at a personal level.
What do you find beautiful? Do share your thoughts in the comments below.
Great is a mind that, in the middle of the rush to get
nowhere, stops, pauses, breathes, looks around to savor the beauty of surroundings
and learnings that a mundane everyday life brings with it.
Blessed is a mind that feels the pulse of what is really
important in the challenges that one is bombarded with.
It is when the mind stops, breathes and pauses that great
things, the really beautiful things are manifested.
Life changes. One day cannot be exactly similar to the previous day. A person cannot be exactly same as he was the previous day. He has to undergo changes – some cells die, while new cells take their place, new thoughts take the place of old thoughts, new ideas take root in his mind. Change is the only constant in life, on Earth.
But what helps us remain grounded through the changes and what helps us deal with changes – minor or drastic is a routine. Routines keep us tethered to our moorings while our boat is rocked by a tempest. Routines are what power us to move forward and chart the choppy waters of uncertainty. Routines form our sheet-anchors when the world around seems to be changing colours a tad too fast for our liking.
Find a routine that is uplifting and stick to it. So you will be uplifted a little each day, no matter what changes are thrown your way.
The cursor blinks at me at a frequency per second. It blinks at me in step with the ticking second hand of the red Titan time piece staring at me from the mantel. The longer I stare at the cursor, the more difficult it is to tame it and get typing.
Enough is enough. I hunker down and type the first word on screen.
I guess this is true with any problem that you face, any challenge that you encounter. The longer you stare at the problem, the bigger it looks, the bigger it grows. Instead, gather your wits and plunge headlong into tackling the problem. Sure, strategy and planning are important. But they are important only when and if you have a strategy and plan!
If you don’t have one, it’s time to make use of the best resource you have – YOU and move on without much ado!
