10 things to do to get back to the groove
Notes on #grounding, #contentedness and observing #nature
This post was triggered off a FB note which said : My parents did so much for me, worked so hard and were so contented. Look at me and the money I make and why am I not contented.
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I don't want to stereotype any generation. Every generation has what it grew up with and what it knows works. Having said that, my personal observation on the #millennials is that they are in a big hurry. A big rush. Get everything early. Get used to all the conveniences. The smallest issue is a deterrent and becomes a social platform to highlight-the-problem-that-someone-else-better-fix and how-this-is-not-done-at-all totally like awesome. I also have seen #millennials as being highly #committed to work at hand,#excellent at multi tasking with gadget interrupts phone calls music and physical conversations. My brain grew up wired as a single-processing instruction set and it still works best in that manner. So much so that I have to go to periods-of-silence if i get overwhelmed with the noise around.Relevant to this thread, what I would recommend the reader to go through the following 10-point-summary and see what makes it to their #bucketlist 1. Get to know the situation of the #elderly in the country as well as internationally2. Newton said - what goes up, comes down. 3. Newton also said - action generates a reaction.4. Read through a couple of concepts via blogs - #minimalism and#mindfulness. 5. It would have been great to know about some of these concepts 20 years ago when I was starting my career. I now have crossed 40 and essentially it becomes a middle-point after which you are dropping more cells than making. 6. Be grounded. I don't mean grounded-to-the-room but grounded as in plugged-to-the-ground. Walk on the grass, sit down in a park, stare at the sky (for some time ... ahem ... ) , travel in a bus, go to the market and buy some fruits or vegetables, stand in a street corner and notice how the thela wala runs his cart, see the children play in the park. 7. The above point is not to be judgemental. It is just to observe and make things out for yourself. It is said that "Nature does not discriminate" and that is so true.. 8. The universal message is not encrypted, not encoded, not private-key-signed so that only if you get in touch with gentleman A or institute B you can make progress. You choose your path, your groove, your rhythm and your style. All I ask is be observant. Be very observant. Not in the hawkish stare mode but in the slightly-defocused looking in the distance and slyly watching what is happening from the corner of the eye mode. You will see things and listen to stuff that will bring a natural smile to your mind.9. Do good. And when it says do good, it is about doing-good-without-expecting-anything-in-return.. No acknowledgement, no thank you, no knowing-who-was-the-beneficiary. Roughly translates to Neki Kar dariya mein Daal. The idea being that the moment you detatch from the event, then only the action-reaction stops on that event. 10. At the end of a month (or even a week), come and write a confessional here. What worked, what did not work, what did nature tell you and what did you tell nature. Whether it brought a smile to you. Whether it brought a smile to whomever you were looking at. EOM