Life is Beautiful ***

Life is beautiful -- Conditions Apply***
Heard this quote? If you are someone who loves quotes, I'm sure you have. I think its a superb one.

The moment you actually read it, your motor reaction would be a smile in agreement. It was the same for me. & after that was the accompanying thought.

How we grown ups add 'Conditions Apply' part to almost everything that is available to us is something which never ceases to surprise me. We have been blessed with so much as with no other living soul [& God has created so many of them]
Yet, when we get something, instead of taking a moment & being thankful for it or stopping to enjoy it, our mind immediately upgrades to the next desire we wish to achieve & we jump to get that into motion. I remember another good quote which goes;

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." ~Logan Pearsall Smith.

There are very few among us, who actually sit back & enjoy what's achieved & then get back to the chase of the next goal. Those are the truly blessed ones who know what life is all about.

As children we never had the thoughts of applying conditions to anything. Life was beautiful, how ever it was. Even if we did not have the best of things, chocolates, clothes, toys, best of friends, school boxes, fancy pencils, conditioning ourselves to term life as beautiful or not never occured to us.
As we grow up, we are supposed to get more understanding, more mature..more in tune with life. Somewhere it seems we have forgotten the basics & to attune ourselves. We seem to have rigidly stuck onto things which make us so mindful & questioning of everything. Conditions started appearing everywhere!

Then is it because we become so mature that we start questioning the existence of the beauty itself.. & that too not becoz it has vanished somewhere or has ceased to exist... but because we are too busy to notice it.

Doesn't it make one wonder was it good to remain a kid or is it better to be a grown up?
Ofcourse both has its pros & cons...yet I personally favour the time when we just wished to grow up. Wished for a whole lot of things; whether they were realistic or not.
[Me thinks, there should be a reverse button in life to change atleast one thing we really wished for! Would'nt that be great? :) ]

Its good to have goals, to look up, to grow further in life..but is it always necessary apply conditions for whatever we have NOW.. just because we do not have what we aspire for at that moment?
Aspirations will never end.. & nor should they. The thing is to remember how much to aspire & when to get content after achieving them.

This was what my Sunday brought me to think about.
Life is all about moments, what you do now is what you have in future. & I would like to look back & have a range of things that I can see in my past. Not just materialistic things.. labels... or possessions only. Life is surely more than that. Isin't it?

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