Tuesday, July 03, 2007

More wisdom...

A few more thoughts that I would like to get preserved in this blog...

1. Heard somehwere: People are meant to be loved while objects are meant to be used. But in the world today, it's the opposite.

2. I've heard/read in innumerous places that the journey is more important than the destination. I never could agree with it until that moment... How can one not focus on the destination (goal) had always been my point of view. We were trekking in Mahabaleshwar then... Bala was always on the edges of the cliffs trying all sorts of X-factor stuff which was causing my BP shoot. Banti remarked "Careful da... else you might trek to the end of your life". It was then it struck me... Whatever we do in life, one thing for sure, which we can also term as the end, is death. If the goal was what was more important, then death is what should be assuming the focus and not the journey, the life! But experientially it is life that is more important and at that moment of realisation, drops of tears popped out: tears of realisation!

Passing thought...

Was speaking with Anto the other day. We were talking in general about how happy children were. They didn't have a reason to be happy. They simply were. It was the observation of my second niece. I could easily relate to how everyone has been in that phase of being happy for no reason to the deplorable state of restricting happiness to events...

Well, Anto made an excellent observation at this juncture: We have investments in our lives (and hence the associated fear, avarice, ... Let's call it baggage). Children don't have any.

True... experientially true!