Be Free

Being busy is just so easy. Anybody can be busy, or act busy for that matter. Somebody told me long time back that a lot of people are just busy, busy without any work. They don't realize that they are just running on a treadmill, without going anywhere. Work never stops, you do one thing and the other things just pops up. You don't get time, you make time. That's why, what is hard is to be free.

 To be able to take time out for people, to help random strangers without looking at your watch, to talk in a tone that doesn't seem rushed, to walk in that easy manner, to enjoy all the little things, despite all the work you have, that is what I call being free, in all its meanings.

Being free is an acquired art. I have had the opportunity to work with some brilliant people, and one thing that I have learned is that no matter how much work you have, you always need to be able to make time for what you consider important. It may be family, friends or some hobby you pursue.

So, make time, pursue what defines you, makes you who you are.

Drawing inspiration from Past

Time and again I have felt that some of the great ideas that we see materializing today have been thought of earlier as well. Unfortunately, they were just ahead of their time earlier. They didn't come into being just because of the fact that the technology at the time was just not advance enough to support them.

We should always look back at past and learn from what has happened. One would be amazed to find out how much of what we see today was envisioned way before even the technology to enable that came into being. Some of the things that would have been regarded as flight of fantasy in Star Trek are what we take for granted these days e.g. the flip phone.  Arthur C. Clark envisioned geostationary satellites 20 years before the first one was launched. I wonder how the originators of these ideas would have felt when they saw their ideas materializing.

I think if we look closely enough, we will definitely find many gems of ideas that were discarded by the doubting Thomases and skeptics. There is sure to learn a lot from the rich history that we have.

Faults

The faults which we find in others are more or less the faults that we think, maybe subconsciously, we might possess too. It is just a reflection of what we think is wrong. Somewhere inside us we have a fear that we may be guilty of those faults as well.

When a child accuses other of stealing his candy, he feels that given an opportunity he might have done the same. When a husband accuses his wife of cheating, he fears that, given a chance, he would have, or already has, done the same.

It's only when we get rid of these fears ourselves, we rise above blaming and accusing others. Then only do we learn to accept people as they are and forgive. We realize we are one step closer to being content and happy.