Imagine!

Imagination should never be controlled. It should have no limits.

When imagination breaks loose, new worlds are created. These new worlds have the power to heal, inspire and create joy. For this, you first have to imagine and then desire to make that imagined world real. Do not worry about the  form your ideas might take. It can be a book, poem, object, product, or something completely offbeat. It doesn’t matter what it is, it just matters that you bring it to this world. This will heal you and others around you.

Is there a net?

You must’ve heard this numerous times – “Take the leap of faith. A net will appear!”

Sometimes, we are plagued by uncertainties in our lives. Questions like – will I get this opportunity, will my project succeed, will I find the right person, will I succeed, will I find happiness…always keep cropping up at several crossroads in our lives. These questions are manifestations of our own fears and insecurities. Every person has some prominent inner need – success, approval of society, fame, money,…  The uncertainties we face and the questions we ask ourselves are manifestations of this inner need.

The problem here is that there is no answer to any of these questions. If you have seen the Harry Potter movies or read the novels, you might be familiar with a character called Boggart. The Boggarts are shape shifters; they take the shape of the object that causes a person most fear. The only way to counter a boggart is to dismiss that fear by a spell that invokes laughter. Similarly, there is absolutely no answer to these uncertainties we find in our lives. The only thing we can do is dismiss them.

In Harry Potter, they had a spell. Unfortunately, the spell for our real life boggart  is much more subtle – Faith. Just know that what you want will happen. Just do what you got to do and take a leap of faith, the net will surely appear.

 

Do I need to?

It has been over 3 months since my last post. I have not been lazy to write – As a matter of fact, I am hardly lazy when it comes to writing. I love writing. But, then, there was a thought – Why write what I write? I don’t write to preach; I am hardly qualified in that department. I write because I love. I don’t write when my mind is full. I write when my mind is empty.

These three months, I have been emptying my mind of the thought that it was getting full. I was letting go of my philosophical ego that was starting to take me over. I was emptying my mind of all the things that I thought I could do and I could not do. I was emptying my compulsive desires to conquer, communicate, establish, achieve, dream, …

It took me three months to understand the difference between compulsive and complimentary. Compulsive goals or desires are what we create because our world becomes blank without them – recognition, money, status and so forth. The problem with compulsive goals are that they neither do any justice to us nor lets us do any justice to them. When I chase a dream that was born out a compulsive desire for recognition, when it eludes me, I am unhappy and when I achieve it, it is unhappy and transforms into something else.

Then there are complimentary goals – the goals that compliment our existence. They are actually not goals that one sets. They evolve out of us ceremoniously dancing to beat of our own heart. There is never a need to prove one’s self. There is never a need to achieve. Achievements and results are byproducts of the spiritual union between what needs to be done and what one is born to do. There are no metrics to judge.

I am back to writing. When I write, my heart pumps and I go in a trance. This needs to be done and maybe this is what I was born to do.

Doing things

Do things only because if you don’t, you will lose your sleep. That’s all. No other reason.

Once you have decided to do it, ignore the world for good. Don’t fear or mind what the rest of the world is going to say about this. You are doing it for yourself. You are doing this because it feels like it is what you must be doing. It is a call from your higher self. Nobody else is going to feel the same way as you do. Hence, why are you listening to them?

Remember, the first line is VERY important.

The last three months of our lives

After I saw Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture, I went to B&N and bought the book. It is such a terrific book that squeezes your heart and brings out the deepest fears.  After I read the book, one question lingered my mind – If I had only 3 months to live, will I still be doing what I am doing now? I started writing down what all things I wanted to do in life from my childhood days and found out that I have not accomplished a single one so far. I have done other things that qualify as good, but a childhood dream is special because it is imagination at its best. As a child, we never think of problems and only think of possiblities. As adults, those possibilities and dreams get linked to problems and reasons what we cannot accomplish that.

I am an entrepreneur at heart. If I have found ways to implement some tough challenges against several odds in various phases of my life, I am pretty sure I will find ways to achieve what all I dreamed when I was a child. It is just time to adjust the sails and pace myself towards those golden dreams.