Anything about life has to start with death. Death is the eternal truth , the sole constant in this variable life.
Death is something that prompted me to write this entry. I lost a close friend today. At the age of 27 , its not unreasonable for me to never have thought about death in detail. But today on hearing the shocking news, I felt numb, I felt time passing by and I felt confused about everything.
There is so much that I want to do. But this assurance that there will be time later, has always kept me away from a few of those things. Simple but important things like learning a new language, learning a musical instrument have stayed on a back burner. But more importantly than all this, today i felt how stupid is caring about what others think. When you die, it doesn't matter, so why should it matter what the world thinks of you when you are alive. To be truly alive , you have to live for yourself.
Stop caring about what others think of you or your actions. If you are afraid of chasing your dreams and worry that the world will label you as a failure, it shouldn't matter. Because in the end , none of this will matter. The only thing that "might" matter is if you did what made you happy and the satisfaction you gain from it.
I have often thought about life in detail. My normal conclusion it that it is a random event and even in case of a super power creating us , they/he/she has left us to live our lives according to our decisions. No God is coming to save us or like one of my Professors used to say "Help is not coming".
All this makes me wonder about Karma. Hopefully that would be the topic of my next post , whenever i am able to write it.
Death is something that prompted me to write this entry. I lost a close friend today. At the age of 27 , its not unreasonable for me to never have thought about death in detail. But today on hearing the shocking news, I felt numb, I felt time passing by and I felt confused about everything.
There is so much that I want to do. But this assurance that there will be time later, has always kept me away from a few of those things. Simple but important things like learning a new language, learning a musical instrument have stayed on a back burner. But more importantly than all this, today i felt how stupid is caring about what others think. When you die, it doesn't matter, so why should it matter what the world thinks of you when you are alive. To be truly alive , you have to live for yourself.
Stop caring about what others think of you or your actions. If you are afraid of chasing your dreams and worry that the world will label you as a failure, it shouldn't matter. Because in the end , none of this will matter. The only thing that "might" matter is if you did what made you happy and the satisfaction you gain from it.
I have often thought about life in detail. My normal conclusion it that it is a random event and even in case of a super power creating us , they/he/she has left us to live our lives according to our decisions. No God is coming to save us or like one of my Professors used to say "Help is not coming".
All this makes me wonder about Karma. Hopefully that would be the topic of my next post , whenever i am able to write it.
