Being a blogger and an avid reader, ideally I should be able to quote about life in so many different ways. Honestly, I remember no quotes nor can I frame life in a sentence. Though, I know why I have been given this life and it makes me feel good.
I think life is beyond the conventional things of growing up, getting married, working, starting to fall ill, dying. It’s not about the other people and doing things to survive but to live. I would rather live with the insults than have the respect of being able to survive, I live my life to the fullest & that what matters the most.
Along with all our duties to our dear ones, we do have some duties of our souls. Why would your body be given a particular soul? I think there is some hunger of the soul which needs to be taken care of. Your body gets a life, you’re not supposed to throw it away meeting ends; there is some living that you’ve to experience just for your own sake. Just for your soul, just to thank god and tell him, “hey look, I am living life by making it worth the opportunity you’ve given. You wouldn’t mind coming back to me again.”
My purpose in life is to explore, I think that appeals to my inner self the most. Just a simple witness of someone in Ahmadabad who walked for miles in the scorching heat for selling his Rs. 1 water sachets, made me really happy for a long time. I was so amazed to get a chance to interact with that person & understand how all that was so effortless for him. Well, this was exploring for me. Traveling places, knowing people from various backgrounds, workplaces, traditions, and religions is such a delightful experience. It just concretes my belief in God to be honest. You know everyone says God is the creator of all & he is great. I was not the one to buy it so easily; I needed to experience that. Every time I come across a human greatness or nature’s phenomena I just wonder what an intelligent entity has created the world. And he surely is greater than I can ever imagine. So let’s pursue this feeling of awe further ahead.
Practically speaking, duties of life like earning money, getting married & other things are inevitable. You just can’t overlook that, though I think it can work along with your own purpose of life. Sometimes when you’re too stressed, you just take an off. Traveling helps you connect with your soul like nothing else. If you’re traveling alone, you would realize there is so much of potential & unused combat in you to take on any stress the world gives. So I don’t mind taking an off and go exploring the wonderful things god has created for us. It’s just my way of satisfying my soul. I think there’s too much to explore within ourselves to look anywhere else for Nirvana. I just find traveling a very helpful resource to explore/unleash the greatness in me while my outer self is witnessing the worldly greatness. And I feel there is this greatness within everyone, the way of coming across it may be different. Yours could be when you make someone happy, or when you love someone selflessly or when you do something for the society like say charity. There’s this friend of mine I know who says his soul would attain Nirvana – complete state of happiness and peace when atleast one person says he felt happy because he was there in their life. My Nirvana would be to explore places, know people from all across. Your Nirvana could be excelling in what you do to the highest level. Higher than everyone till you feel you’ve reached the complete potential within you. I think you would never get done with the potential within. Such is the power of the soul.
The purpose of the blog is just to share with everyone the need to do things for your inner self. We’ve become so intelligent & organized in life that we layout all our life and how we are going to spend it. Not many end up being happy with this, because perhaps the planning was to earn respect of being able to survive without difficulties. There was nothing for the soul & for just the life. ‘Just the life & just your inner self’ gets missed out in the planning we do. We’ve been surviving through life for the sake of it, let’s not make that mistake. Let’s start to live.
Find out what you truly love doing, it could be anything that quenches your soul. (May be music, pursue it. Who knows?) All this philosophy only because I think:
It would make you worth having life again.
Just think over the above line!
Bhavesh Dodi(y)a
