Every once in a while walk the line of lunacy.
Go do
things the world calls crazy but what you believe delivers joy unto you.
Soaking yourself in this joy frequently is what will, ironically, keep you sane
and grounded.
I met a
friend the other day, who has been an inspiration. He started his career as a
bottle washer in a five-star hotel's bar. And worked his way up to become an
expert in wines, a sommelier. He is employed in the Middle-East and earns
substantially to be able to provide for not just himself but his extended
family of siblings and relatives. On a vacation to India last week, he went to
a five-star hotel, and enrolled himself as a daily wage contract worker and
washed dishes for a full 8-hour shift. His reasoning: “It was a bit difficult
after all these years. But there was more, unadulterated, joy than the physical
pain it caused. It helped me connect back to where I came from.” Another person
I know, in his 40s, has kicked his “secure” job and is learning “tattooing”
because he wants to be a tattoo artist on the beaches in Brazil!!!.
If what
the world calls crazy is what gives you joy, just do it! When you walk the line
of lunacy, you are following your bliss. Bliss works on us in several ways –
ways that we have not even thought of. The experience is always
liberating. When you are in bliss, you are one with the Universe. In this
state, you attract health, peace and prosperity. Ultimately, aren’t we all not
working hard and burning both ends of the candle in this Life for just those
three things – health, peace and prosperity (to be sure, a.k.a wealth!)?
Interestingly,
it is that time of the year when plans and resolutions to do meaningful,
important stuff in Life, are chalked out. Yet, so many new years have come and
gone. And as every new year turns old, the resolutions too will slip away,
snowed under the pressures of everyday Life, BAU – business as usual, as they
call it in the corporate sector! You can spend a lifetime planning, but it is
in those moments of doing what you love doing, that you actually live! Rest of
the time, you merely exist! Here and now is where it all starts. So, go do what
you always wanted to do. Don’t postpone. Don’t hedge. Go on,
defy popular logic, get crazy!
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