Friday, February 03, 2006

LIFE - it's all about simple things

Life.... as confusing as it may get.... can anyone describe it for me... and then I got my DEFINITION..

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." - Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning, p.172

Life, as I have known, it has very simple definition "LIVE EVERY MOMENT", n moment by moment as it comes.. Lets see what does LIVING EVERY MOMENT means... ENJOY every bit of MOMENT and NEVER HURT anyone while enjoying these moments.... ENJOY... it can be described as things that give you PLEASURE, SATISFACTION make you feel HAPPY... PLEASURE ?? SATISFACTION ?? HAPPY ?? try describing these now... and go on till the last part of this chain....

URGE for FEELING HAPPY, PLEASURE, SATISFACTION... until some years back got fulfilled with playing, skipping schools, eating choclates, doing mischiefs then after a few years it was handsome pocket money, breaking college rules, freaking out with friends, having a good looking partner.. and the LIFE was all settled then for a PERFECT living.... then 1 FINE DAY all these started looking just day to day activity.. but then LUCKILY... a great pay-package, cool gadgets, sexy dates... aah again I was on a roll.. until sometime back, when again one fine day I required even better pay-check, a four-wheeled beauty with a two legged beauty in the front-seat, a bit of FAME to define my LIFE - LIVE EVERY MOMENT..

with these new words to complete the simple definition of LIFE, I was ENJOYING watching a movie and heard the dialogue: "one day not long from now, my looks will go, they will discover I can't act and I will become some sad middle-aged woman who looks a bit like someone who was famous for a while" - Notting Hill.

I thought so what who cares for FUTURE, I am living my PRESENT.. after all "LIVE EVERY MOMENT"

Today, its 60 years since I first used words to describe LIFE.. ENJOY, PLEASURE, HAPPY... derived the meaning of these words but today as I running short of MOMENTS, I don't remember clearly the WHEELS I have burnt on the ROAD, the gadgets which are in RAGE or the sexy figures I have enjoyed my nights with... was I wrong in my definition then ?? is LIFE's definition not that simple ???

And on the contrary, what I can clearly visualize is the SMILING STREET child whom I offered my OLD NURSERY RHYMES book, the GRIN that appeared on the face of the OLD newspaper seller when I used to talk to him in the night while waiting for my friends, the SURPRISED face of my MONTESARY teacher - when after 20 years I went back to school and invited her for my WEDDING.

But isn't the later things just normal... too simple... I mean we do them.. just like that... what so cool about it.. but TODAY it feels as if these things PERFECTLY describe the words PLEASURE, HAPPY, SATISFACTION better... yes these SIMPLE things of life...

and probably thats why they say "LIFE has a simple definition - LIVE EVERY MOMENT - LIVE EVERY SIMPLE MOMENT !!"

..... abhi sung these chords @ 5:10 PM
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