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Travelling Light in Life

Life is very short, and there's no time

For fussing and fighting, my friend.

The Beatles


Nirvana Nomads Ramanagara Trip Pic
Sometimes when you meet a person you're head can't stop shaking! Well, you're not going through a fit but the words are just making too much sense to you. Something similar happened with me when I met someone on a trip to Ramanagara (designed by a Bangalore based bunch of travelers called Nirvana Nomads).

More about the trip later, this chain of words is inspired from a small conversation. It was therapeutically helpful for me to discuss about some problems and find out that it is more or less the same with others too! 

The gist was life is uncertain and there are too many screwed-up things. Nonetheless, in between this horse-crap flying around there are few candies flying around too. So catch those, you may get hit with some shit. Clean yourself and move on.

Eww, maybe that's your reaction to my last line - candies and crap flying around! Well, you can find a newer definition of life (because there isn't just one). Anyways, the gist of the conversation can be jotted down in few simple (and well know too) facts:

1. Life is short - we all know that; from the holy books to poets to rock bands to simplest of men are aware of it. The "bad" day you're having today may go into the next few days but even the worst of the things can't last forever - including you.

2. Talk to yourself - some of the worst days in life are spent alone. Chuck Noland found a football to talk to when his plane crashed on a deserted island with no hope of rescue. The inanimate ball represented his own inner voice. So don't drown your voice, listen to it more often.

3. Travel Light - All of us are smart enough to concentrate on a handful of aims. But some of us (including yours truly) lack the ability to shoot down the unnecessary burdens added with an aim. I'm talking about imaginary outcomes we associate to the karma which is still in progress! Get rid of it, it ain't worth it.

So that was all we talked. It was so simple that I remember most of it, almost twenty-four hours later. Yet it was so helpful that I want to write about it again. Gracias!
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  1. Bhakti PradeepNovember 30, 2012 at 4:15 AM

    After the death, at the time of the judgment, the past karma may stand before the dead doer's subtle body to ridicule the person who willingly indulged in them knowingly that the result would be adverse, so is with good past karma. As such discretion is required before every karma.

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