I can’t even remember how many times, I must have uttered the four-word-sentence ‘I don’t have time’. These words share such a profound bond with my tongue that they just slip off my tongue where required without the necessity of contemplating. Apparently, running short of time has become second to our nature. Where the fast-paced mechanized life is to be blamed for this urgency, I believe, somewhere down the line lays our tiny share of mistakes too. Now, the question is worth asking, that where are we mistaken? We are mistaken for surrendering our lives in the pursuit of a future that we don’t know will arrive in what apparel? We have deadlines to meet, conferences to attend and chores to be done. Sometimes, we are so caught up with one task, that the other is sacrificed. In this rampant race of killing tasks, there is little hope of finding time for our heart-pleasing activities. Hence, little adventure and little hope in our lives. For most us, the dreams that we long to pursue are different from what we do daily. Hence, let alone claiming our dreams, we are not even given the space to work towards our dreams. It accounts for a complicated situation and this is where ‘dejection’ begins grabbing its roots. But the solution lies at our very own hands. That is, whenever, wherever we get time, let us just not waste in facebooking or any-other stuff that we do daily to relieve our minds. The strategy should be to devote such times to the activities that would satisfy our souls and grant peace to our minds.
Being a university student myself has lead me to an intense mechanized life. However, prior to university life, even college life was always compact. Thus, if we keep sitting, waiting for the time, when we shall be finally free to cater to our heart’s desires, I am afraid this is not going to happen before we settle in our old age. Its been long since I wrote a song, filled a page of my diary, posted a new entry in my blog or wrote to any newspaper. I haven’t even started with many things, that have always been on the top of my priority list. ‘Some day’ I tell myself daily, I would accomplish these small goals set for myself. Waiting in line, are my finals that are due from 4th of August. I have been sacrificing sleep to meet all the deadlines of the semester work. In between, many a times, I wanted to engage myself in photography, give myself a new look, bring small changes in my room, read a book or write something but an hour of facebook and an hour of music, and then I get back to my work. I have been dreaming high, flying in the sky. When I look at people, living the life they wanted to, I say to myself ‘why not me’. I don’t know how it worked for them, it was luck or their passion. But for myself, I am now gradually realizing that before achieving ‘big dreams’, we should materialize small dreams, which are at our hands. I have suddenly become conscious that we waste so much of our time in delaying our targets. Life is so uncertain. You can never tell what tomorrow brings. So, the life well-lived today is the best life :).
There is no best recipe of living a life, because everyone has a different perspective and a different idea of a ‘dream lifestyle’. Celebrity life-style may seem appealing but can be very precarious. Thus, we need to first define our goals to ourselves and then we should execute our small efforts in their line of direction. The idea is not to achieve world-fame, but to be sure that you are contributing your bit to the world and living the life you want to. The conditions will never be favorable, they seldom are. But our little efforts to establish our little goals will give us endless happiness. Just like out of my busy schedule, I took out time to write this entry, I am sure taking out time for other things that my heart is set at would make me more happy. As it is said, ‘time is never there, we HAVE to take out time ourselves’. Hence, lesson of the day
‘Take out time to do things that are closest to you, that will make you happy so that you may start living the life, you always wanted to J’
So, as my pieces of writing always end up in a positive note. I, once again, make a commitment to myself to accomplish all my little goals once I get back after my exams InshAllah. Even during this period, whenever I'll find time, I'll do what pleases me in the long run :). And this time I am serious :) (InshAllah)
