Does Life Knocks Twice???

A time was there when we were never worried about the way life would turn coz we were happy with the way it passed.We were amazed by the opportunities it presented us each day to enjoy the present, forget the past and never think about the future.We had the opinion that one can only live one day at a time. And that was it, that thought helped us deal with each and every obstacle that came knocking by, coz we took one thing at a time instead of working on all of them simultaneously. That was great as it led us to understand each and every aspect of things that came along like Why,How,When they happened? It was revealing as it gave us enough ways to learn the full cycle of life's happenings. And now we know why that era was so brilliant? Now we know how life was totally different at that time?Why?It's so simple to answer that..And the answer is "We had enough courage to peek into ourselves and see for ourselves what we as an individual were..".

Not so clear about the last sentence I suppose.Simple.. being an individual back then meant,we thought about our happiness and the things that made us happy and we were so interested to do such things.We never feared doing new things(termed as blunders by others) as we were ready to accept the consequences coz we never valued those consequences in terms of money, reputation or society status...But now we are more worried about the risks and how it will affect us..so what do we do now?The same thing what others do..Always thinking of being in the closed security loop of money, status and society. Never wanna be a 'talked about individual' coz we failed when we tried to do something different. As I said we want to be on the safer side...Guess what? The safer side is always dull coz it's decided by the society or people around us and slowly it becomes our view.So our happiness quotient is not decided by us but some total different person altogether.You are happy because others think you are happy.Is it?You work hard, you spend most of your time at work making things look better and for a better life ahead but you forget that you are living right now.Then someone will say you have to sacrifice something now to get rewards in future. Hindi mein kya boltein hain "Kuch paane ke liye kuch khona padtha hai"....We do take this proverb seriously right?But what about this one "Time n tide waits for none".We did took this one seriously back in our childhood.

For instance the main issue back in childhood was Exams. Examinations used to be a difficult word to describe or understand. The time when you pour out all that you learned all along the year.A simple definition and I think it fits. All year you will be learning thousands of new things then one fine morning you have to spill out a part of what you learned, still something is left behind.And then you are being judged by the figure upon 100. Now you might be thinking what examinations has to do with what I wrote above i.e, living one day at a time. Actually it is very much related only thing is that how you relate that. You prepare de whole year for de exam and the last 3 hours is where you make the difference.You gain the knowledge day by day and not all in a single day.Ya I agree there were times when you have to do it on the last day(to do the whole subject de previous day) but the thing is that you were there on each day to gain something and that will help you in future.You learned in each single day and it helps in the last. You didn't kept the things for the last day to finish off then Why is that you keep on pushing living to some next day or thinking to enjoy things only during the holidays. During those days you very well knew you will never get a second chance if you miss the time, and do remember you will never get a second chance to live. In the last few hours of your life you will only think of how you lived rather than what you accomplished.Don't kill today for the sake of tomorrow's happiness...

Remember whatever absurd excuses we used to give if we end up late at school coz we chased some birds on the way..It was so much fun running thru the bushes and then creating an excuse from thin air. Now I agree we do make excuses, but the context is far to different.Now we give excuses to ourselves.The biggest excuse we give to ourselves is that we are now grown up, more mature and we have to act more responsibly.. and that means we have to work real hard to save for the future.You can only save money dear.. not time for the future... time is the only thing that never accumulates.. it always leak..

It's not easy to sum up what life is or what it means to live..
but it's not difficult or impossible either..
Life is what you live...
Not what you wait to live..