There are only two ways to dwell – hate and be hated or love and be loved.
You think life is long? Think carefully. Life is just four days long. Four heavenly days. One heavenly day equals to 20 years.
You spend first day in your early education, second day tying nuptial knots and making family, third day enjoying established career and forgetting family, and fourth day smoldering in remorse and being lonely waiting for the departure of soul.
Life is that short.
It is a flash of thirty seconds before your eyes when your body is in transition from life-d to lifeless. That period of thirty seconds is the shortest filmed biography beyond edit. And trust me in no time you will be its sole viewer too.
This beautiful life is a gift from God. A gift to cherish and adore not complain. Because of life, you have people who love you, who acknowledge you.
Unfortunately, you spend your day without thinking what watermark you have embossed by your actions. You laugh, you love but you hate and resent too. You kick old friendships off on the basis of divergence and worship new faces in search of perfection. You vent your frustration of work on your children and loved ones. You push people to hate you without realizing by being selfish. You make enemies. You don’t forget and forgive but expect forgiveness on your mistakes from others.
How many of you are in touch with your school friends? What about college friends? What about colleagues from a decade ago? Don’t you think if you had stayed in good relations with all these till now, you would have more comfort in sharing your opinions or talking without description and explanation? Don’t you think you would have more freedom of speech?
How often do you meet your parents, your siblings? How many times have you declined their invitations saying your schedule is tight? These are the only people who will accept you with all your impurities. These are the only people bearing truth. And you think staying away from them to make money is justified? Life is short. Be with them before you become a weightless soul watching them but can’t touch them; talking to them but can’t make them hear you.
You live in memories. You live in people’s minds. This living is forever. Body perishes but not your words. Say something good to others which encourage them to be good to others too. Toadying someone about his looks and clothes or about his ostentation of wealth is meaningless. Meaningful is what is inside that person, which is even sometimes invisible to him. Spend quality time with people who love you. Time without distraction of mobile phone ringing to snatch you away from a chance of living forever.
When eating out, order to parcel a burger every time and hand it with a smile to the first destitute you see when you are outside and live in his mind forever. Keep one serving of meal in a disposable container for a hungry homeless every time you eat at home. This simple act of kindness is priceless. Say thank you to the waiter every time he brings you a menu card, a plate, food or bill. Say thank you to the man who cleans your windshield at the traffic light or gas station, to the man who fills your grocery bags at the cash counter, and to the man who opens door for you. Say thank you to your servant every day for being there to help you. Thank your peon, secretary, staff every day for all the work they are doing for you. Thank your child’s school bus driver every day when he picks and drops your child. Don’t take time to decide whom you should say hello to. Say hello to everyone you interact for a second. Say hello to the doorman, to the guard, to the cashier, to the bell boy.
Set an example for your children. When they become you, you live forever in their behavior. Call someone today you haven’t contacted for a long time and ask him how he is doing. Don’t hesitate to help people financially when they look up to you because of your financial strength and stability. Don’t refuse people in need thinking your money will decrease in bank. The more you help, the more your wealth accumulates. Don’t ask people to return your money which they borrowed. When they will have it, they will give it back. If they don’t have it and you pressurize them then they will only be forced to borrow from someone else to pay you ultimately deleting your act of kindness. God will send someone to help you when you are down with finances for you. What goes around comes around. Read about Warren Buffet and learn his simple living and generosity.
Tell your parents, children and friends that you love them every time you speak to them. Hug them. Acknowledge them, they will acknowledge you. Buy them something which they love very much or need very much.
Give the things to charity from your home, which you haven’t used in twelve months. If you haven’t used them this long then trust me you won’t need them at all. Someone else might be in need for this.
Don’t take time to forgive people no matter what they did to you. Give preference to people over work.
Soon you will see that your 30 second biography is millions of smiles not regrets.
This is what I do every day, and every day the joy makes me feel like I have lived for a thousand years.
Decent opinions to remind people to be humane, it's easy to forget those things. Write more, it's interesting.
That was beautiful.