SLOW DOWN

Taken directions from a mail to write all this:-

Please give it a thought on when did you last do any of these activities?
1. Watching the sun go down and gazing at it into the fading night
2. Sitting silently at the corner of a crowded place and simply watching people do all kind of activities, without troubling your nerve cells
3. Watching kids play at the Children’s Park and smiling on each act of their supreme innocence.
4. Listening to the rain-drops falling on the ground and trying to catch minutest of the sound.
5. Following erratic butterfly flight.
6. Standing by the road side without any intention to go anywhere and watching the vehicles crossing by you in a desperate urgency.
7. Watching two kites’ entangling twine and rescuing one of them to the freedom in an unknown blue space.
8. Following the distant birds flying at immeasurable heights from extreme left to extreme right.
9. Watching the seconds’ hand of a clock do tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick……


Do any of the following things happened with you?
1. When did you last asked yourself ‘How are you?’ and could you manage to reply on that?
2. When did last someone asked you ‘How are you?’ and did you actually replied on your actual state of condition?
3. Do you run out of your house each morning?
4. How many times this thought comes to your mind – Oh! I am getting late!?
5. At the end of the day, does this come to your head – what are the next chores I am required to do?
6. Do you think that had there been twice as much time available as it is now, your life would be much simpler?
7. Do you think cellphones, airplanes, internet are the best things ever could be created?
8. Do you think night is ‘only’ a period to give you a stopover to start with your next day activities?

Could you ever notice these things happening around?
1. The sorrow on a kid’s face when you asked him/ her to do an act tomorrow as you being busy today.
2. The pre-mature death of your friendship as you never had time to call and say “hi” and genuinely tried to know about your friend, “how are you?”
3. The silence of other person when he wanted to talk to you but you couldn’t listen due to paucity of time.
4. The saddening face of your mother when you dint say a last bye while moving out of the house in a hurry.
5. The hope in the eyes of your loved-ones when you broke a promise to do an act, that the activity would be done without making you remind again.
6. The bitterness in the relations you made and broke in the rush of things you had to do.
7. The dreams in the eyes of your father which he made ever since you were born while letting you go off to realize your dreams.


If you could understand what I have written supra, it’s the time you should slow down in the race of your life. I have always found myself racing against time, but in the end I have realized that I am never the winner. As they say, give in to the taste… you definitely need to cherish each and every moment of life without rushing on to the next activity. Its not that the person who completes the maximum activities wins the race; it’s the person who “completes” the activities who wins the race. When you run so fast to get somewhere, you miss half the fun of getting there. The fun is not reaching the destination but the path to reach the destination. When you worry and hurry through your day, its like an unopened gift…thrown away!

Kindly promise yourself to do at least one activity a week of the type mentioned in first part here. Try to live in present as future never comes. Promise to give time to your loved-ones, which is of prime importance and pledge to take care of them rather than letting them take care of themselves.