"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone"
Heard this line so many times that i keep wondering when will life actually begin. Frankly, i don't even know what is my comfort zone? Is it a stable job? Or is it the precision which which we run our day? Or is it the quirky obsessive behaviour which we all showcase some time?
Regular day , regular life , regular family and friends. Some where in between the streak of madness hits us to create a bucket list. Thinks which we aspire to do but our regular life does not permit due to lack of time and motivation. Hell, we are motivated enough to make a list, but to execute it needs the tenaciousness which at times we lack.
One day i sat down to make my bucket list. I kept looking at the paper, and it stared blankly back at me. After 15 mins of this stare game, i thought times are changing, i need to have a digital bucket list. So opened my laptop and once again the blank screen was staring back at me.
What was it, that i wanted to do in my life? A question which came across, send shivers down my spine and all of a sudden i realised i was so confused with what i wanted to do. Suddenly i realised i had spend a lifetime working and what i conjured up as fun was just regular partying and going on vacation. But i had never ventured out from my "Comfort Zone".
This realisation made me silent inside, i was very upset and i wanted to have this bucket list up and running and i was out of ideas. First i thought about all the places i wanted to visit. Then i thought about the musicals and plays i wanted to see, the actors i wanted to meet, then came adventure sports and first one on list was bungee jumping following with scuba diving and rock climbing. Hence my list started getting done. But there was no excitement in making this list. Everyone makes such a list and its great to tick mark all the things one wants to do. But then another question popped up; Does this make me happy? Well the logical brain was calculating the money to be spent on this, which meant i work harder to get this list up and going. While the heart was not convinced with this list. It was just another my need list.
These are the moments when a meditative mind helps. I sat quietly and asked myself what it is really i want from this list. What came back as answer was not what i expected but somehow my heart felt satisfied with it. "i am a tourist."
Well to travel around the world, meet new people, see new cultures and interacting with different people i guess is everyone's dream. So i have religiously followed my bucket list and with an eye of a tourist i look at everything and everyone. Strangely once you realise , what you want, life becomes easy and fun.
My motto in life has always been "Work hard, Party harder"
Maybe in another decade i will once again sit down to make a new bucket list, but for now "I am a tourist".
Heard this line so many times that i keep wondering when will life actually begin. Frankly, i don't even know what is my comfort zone? Is it a stable job? Or is it the precision which which we run our day? Or is it the quirky obsessive behaviour which we all showcase some time?
Regular day , regular life , regular family and friends. Some where in between the streak of madness hits us to create a bucket list. Thinks which we aspire to do but our regular life does not permit due to lack of time and motivation. Hell, we are motivated enough to make a list, but to execute it needs the tenaciousness which at times we lack.
One day i sat down to make my bucket list. I kept looking at the paper, and it stared blankly back at me. After 15 mins of this stare game, i thought times are changing, i need to have a digital bucket list. So opened my laptop and once again the blank screen was staring back at me.
What was it, that i wanted to do in my life? A question which came across, send shivers down my spine and all of a sudden i realised i was so confused with what i wanted to do. Suddenly i realised i had spend a lifetime working and what i conjured up as fun was just regular partying and going on vacation. But i had never ventured out from my "Comfort Zone".
This realisation made me silent inside, i was very upset and i wanted to have this bucket list up and running and i was out of ideas. First i thought about all the places i wanted to visit. Then i thought about the musicals and plays i wanted to see, the actors i wanted to meet, then came adventure sports and first one on list was bungee jumping following with scuba diving and rock climbing. Hence my list started getting done. But there was no excitement in making this list. Everyone makes such a list and its great to tick mark all the things one wants to do. But then another question popped up; Does this make me happy? Well the logical brain was calculating the money to be spent on this, which meant i work harder to get this list up and going. While the heart was not convinced with this list. It was just another my need list.
These are the moments when a meditative mind helps. I sat quietly and asked myself what it is really i want from this list. What came back as answer was not what i expected but somehow my heart felt satisfied with it. "i am a tourist."
Well to travel around the world, meet new people, see new cultures and interacting with different people i guess is everyone's dream. So i have religiously followed my bucket list and with an eye of a tourist i look at everything and everyone. Strangely once you realise , what you want, life becomes easy and fun.
My motto in life has always been "Work hard, Party harder"
Maybe in another decade i will once again sit down to make a new bucket list, but for now "I am a tourist".
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