Stop and smell the roses!

In this ultra – competitive world, we run a marathon race after name, fame, wealth, fortune and status ignoring the little things which make our life beautiful. Of course, who doesn’t want the above. Even I do. But it is necessary to call it a halt sometimes.

You may have finished running the track. But remember life track runs straight and you cannot revisit parts of your life again. Do make a run but remember to take halts then and then and smell the roses that adorn the sides of the track. Count your blessings. Celebrate life.

Life is not just about work, money and worry. You may have attained your desired throne. Yet some vacuum may be thronging and nagging deep within you. You will then realize that you missed the real sweet small things that truly make up your life…your family, friends, loved ones and the world around you. They make your life complete. Stop and smell the roses before there are no roses at all.

Life goes at a frenetic pace that we don’t sit, idle, relax and observe/ appreciate the beauty and bounty around us. Many a times even I find it hard to just sit and relax. The following excerpts from Wayne Muller’s book Sabbath really opened my eyes…

‘We say this to one another as if our exhaustion were a trophy, our ability to withstand stress a mark of character. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, to be unable to find time for the sunset (or even to know the sun has set), to whiz through our obligations without time for a single mindful breath -- this has become the model of a successful life.

Yet the more our life speeds up, the more we feel weary, overwhelmed, lost. Our life and work rarely feel light, pleasant or healing. Instead, as it all piles endlessly upon itself, the whole experience of being alive begins to melt into one enormous obligation.

Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the compass points that show us where to go, the nourishment that gives us succor, the quiet that gives us wisdom.’

REST IS NOT JUST A PSYCHOLOGICAL CONVENIENCE, BUT A SPIRITUAL AND BIOLOGICAL NECESSITY.

So its time to reshuffle our priorities?!

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