Sunday, May 1, 2011

Retrospection....

It is just another day. With an agenda just as regular as ever...  Ever wondered why life has become so mechanical?? And it is not just with a group of people or a particular working stream but almost everybody.

I was on my way to work on a Friday, was stuck in a traffic jam waiting for signal to break. Looked around... and to my disbelief I saw everywhere around waiting as though they are waiting in an emergency ward... "Tension” is what I saw on all the faces as I looked around...

The point, Life has become so mechanical that we have forgotten the very essence of life.. We all are running after something without even knowing whether we really want it.. And 24 hours are not enough to do anything.

Now I started thinking, when I was in school. Well I was on the same planet, there were same kind of people around, I was eating same food  what I eat now  I did more things and had so much time left to play, cultivate hobbies, visit relatives and RELAX.  WHAT CHANGED??

Today with technology at its best and accessible, ATM and credit cards, different methods of conveyance, the magical internet, MOBILE phones –iPads and iPhones better with each version... Why is there a feeling that there is no time left in the day, why is there a feeling with every second person that the day is too short and there is too much do...? Why Life appears so technical and difficult?  Is advancement not better?

I began to think and started retrospection... We all have become non thinkers, we look for the comfort which is temporary, slowly but surely complacency has set in...

Looking at the mad rush at the traffic signal I realized that Speed is important but there has to be a meaning to why we are doing what we are doing?  I decided to stop and take my mind few years back...the missing factor clearly was again the thinking... Now Can I associate this phenomenon with everything and everyone??Well if not entirely but in some way or the other.. We all are running behind getting comfortable temporarily and not really thinking about small details.... Well to be really basic- things were more organized, efficient and healthier before..the need of the hour is retrospection to bring peace, sanity and blissful days back.....

1 comment:

  1. Great thought there.... Coming to think of it, can totally relate to the 'mad rush'. The other day, I had a similar thought about whether life was simpler when we were younger or have our minds gotten more complex and greedy! :)

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