I’ve spent the majority of my life trying to reach the ideal figure, the ideal look, the ideal life…
But one thought just stopped me short. I am in the prime of my life. This is the peak. All my childhood was spent preparing for this. Then it hit me…that’s what my parents taught me wrong… “Study now, you have all your life to have fun….”, “don’t party, you can do that once you are married…”, “focus on your career, you have all your life ahead to enjoy…”
Or maybe they taught me well for that time, but I didnt stop following their advice when I should have.
I am still in that preperatory mode. Preparing for the good life, the great figure… Those moments spent preparing for a better tomorrow was my life. Today IS my life. You can’t spend all your life preparing for it. When does one stop preparing and start living?
Don’t get me wrong. I will be eternally grateful to my parents for controlling me in the delicate age when I could have strayed and spoilt my life easily.
But now my life is on a track. Whether I like the track or not is not important here. What is important is that I can’t spend my life waiting for the good days to start, so that I can live.
I can’t wait for my waist to be 26 inches again, before I buy another pair of jeans….
Whatever it is, whatever my life is , whatever I look like, this IS my life. And if I don’t start living it, it will be over before I know it. So I am stopping preparing for the future, and starting living.
September 10, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Very very good observation
September 11, 2007 at 10:37 am
I like this post for its promptness. Life is NOW!
From the little observation I do I notice that we are forever sitting by the roadside waiting for the perfect bus – clean, wonderfully coloured, air-conditioned, best seats empty….
Whoever saw that kind of bus must be visiting a bus manufacturer’s production line.
On life’s road, the buses are a little untidy, most seats full and the air-conditioning awaiting repair. But even then, the real fun is being on the bus and going someplace.
September 13, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Yes, something will always seem missing from life. But , at the same time, we need to figure out very clearly what are the most important things which we want and which are achievable. So, you may be in a good health, enjoying your job, earning good salary and have a great friend circle…But, is that enough? There might be something else which we badly want but either we are not admitting it to ourselves or we feel it’s impossible to get that.
But yes, whatever the situation is, there is no excuse for not trying to live each moment as positively as possible and see the half full glass side of things.
On a different note, I was wondering why you have put moderating option for each comment posted in your blog. I think it will slow your blog and also limit traffic. Well, just a suggestion.
September 13, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Everything in moderation would be a great deal but life as you have so nicely put is in the NOW.