..when I am drunk. The 'drunken sage' (as a friend called me) is back. Back from the Dhauladhar Base Trek, back to drinking and back to spreading the words of eternal wisdom.
When I had Royal Challenge today, I had it slower than I usually do. Much slower (only by accident). The result is I have the drunkenness from 2 pegs which I have dont usually have from 5 pegs. This taught me something I have been thinking for my website, सहज पके सो मीठा होवे. Do it slow, do it patiently, do it well, do it perfectly, dont worry about the outcome and you will come out a winner in whatever you do. Even if you dont, you would have the satisfaction of a lifetime. Isnt that all that matters?
Truth - what is it? I remember being taught 'Sun rises from the East' is a universal truth in class 6-8. How relative!! Till 1996, the Roman Catholic Church did not even admit the earth revolved around the sun. Today all of us take it as given. A few centuries down the line, something else might be the 'truth'. We live relatively, there is no absolute. Lets admit this and get on with life, it will make life much easier. There is no truth here, not even the fact we exist.
Dreaming is essential to life. It does not matter if you fulfill them. There are 3 states possible.
1. You only dream
2. You dream, try to execute and fail
3. You dream and succeed in the execution
State 3 is bliss. State 2, you would have lived your dream for some part of your life. State 1, you would have atleast dared to think different and felt good while you did that. I would take any of them with both hands any day. What about you?
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for all i knw at the moment is "absolut"
ReplyDeletequite a thought on living relatively..yeah probably sometime back smth that we take as "given" now may nt have existed or an opposite fact wud be the truth..like the earth is a flat surface....
with the 3 states of dreaming:
1. only dream of a peaceful earth, a bunch of people as ur confidants, a beautiful spouse, an easy luxurious life, exploring each and every bit of earth all by trek....blah blah...
2. you dream of IIT/IIM, being the LN Mittal, Indra Nooyi..and you follow the path and u fail...
3. you dream of inner peace, stability, convivial environment, happy you..and you succeed....
All i mean to say over here is, watever be your dream, give it a chance to become reality, like everythng needs to be upgraded. and with each one getting a chance to live,wud definitely give great returns.
eventually, all u need to die peacefully is self contentment, positivity and thoughtfulness.
it feels i have written a whole blog post here...sorry fr that...
good thinking...carry on!
You know what! I keep going from state1 to state2 and back and forth... now i dream of going to state3... so i think, right now i am in state4 where one dreams of another state!
ReplyDelete@ Aditi, long comment! Btw, I was referring to the same dream in all the 3 states. The dreams we all have but are scared to think of too much and IIT/IIM, LNM, Indira....etc etc are not those. :)
ReplyDelete@Babz, dreaming of anything, even another state falls into State 1. :)
hahaha...ofcourse, feel free to delete it..
ReplyDelete:D
Sometimes...not most of the the times...all they misunderstood...the aura of one or two...its just like ... a chicken hatched a day Agosto...and few more hours later... just few...hours...that small ...but big to make to difference...
ReplyDeleteMoral of the story:
ReplyDelete1) Drink
2) Drink slowly
3) Drink Royal Challenge
dude..I am lucked out..hehe..no drinking for me :) but the post hits it right on the head..just to understand what you are doing takes a lot!