Enjoy each moment before they are gone

To enjoy each and every moment of our life we need to have gratitude for one and all. Work out in any form. Trust me, it makes you feel great about yourself. Feel the music. Just enjoy the feeling of being in some other world staying within this. Groom up yourself for the day. Have a shower, wear comfortable clean clothes. That is to say be someone you are happy to look at in the mirror. Relish food. Don’t just eat it for the sake of it. Enjoy it while you have it. See enjoying doesn’t ask much.

Don’t compromise on basic necessities like food, shelter and clothing. You should have a feel of contentment in terms of your way of living. Spend time on getting rid of unnecessary. Clean up house, mind, thoughts, laptops. I am sure you are going to enjoy this process once you start. Stop cribbing. Either try to change what you crib about or start looking at positive side of the same. Make it a habit not to crib. Once in a while its okay though, after all we are imperfect beings..so be easy.

Spend time with loved ones. Cuddles, kisses, hugs, talks, fun whatever. Just have some family time. Do something you enjoy everyday - singing, dancing, reading, Quora etc etc. Converse with people you like talking to. That feels great right? And finally, its okay not to do anything sometimes if that makes you at peace and happy…enjoy such time till it lasts. I have realised that if we can keep four vices at bay we can live every moment happily. Anger- Its a defect. Our mind should always be like a cold storage (calm) and our tongue should always be like a sugar factory (speaking sweet).

Anger makes many enemies. It creates tension. We think that everyone else is wrong and we are correct. But once you are calm, nothing can affect you. You will become harmless. Ego- Its a big problem in today's society. We create ego even on the basis of success of our children, the girlfriend or boyfriend we possess and so on. It just the matter of time that the precious most thing to you will look fade. Don't carry the tag. Don't chasten up for the materialistic affairs. Unlike anger, ego is the sweet slow killer. It generates gradually and its latent. But it creates rift in relations.

Cheating- Once a mother was told that her son is so simple that anybody can cheat him. The mother said that she is proud of him because she knows that he will never cheat anyone. Cheating originates lies. Cheating originates mistrust. We even cheat ourselves. We don't follow what we wish for. We cheat when we don't follow our discipline. We cheat when we overdo the stuff. It all looks good but its wont give you happiness. Greed- We all are privileged in some way or the other. But we aren't satisfied. We want more and that has no end. We think of what can we have rather than being happy for what we already have. Its always good to thrive for achieving more but never good to forget everything else in that and go in depression and anxiety.

I am not fond of people and I don’t have friends. I’ve been lucky enough to experience true friendship in life but somehow, being absolutely alone has always comforted me. I have been switching off my mobile phone at 12 am on my birthday, every year since 2009. I call back a couple of people and cousins on my birthday because I know they would want to talk to me - and I want to talk to them as well! On most Saturdays, I get up at 6 am and go for a run in one of the most beautiful places in the city. Then I come back, get fresh and leave the house with my wallet, my mobile phone, earphones, car keys and a book (and of course my car). I go to the tiniest of coffee shops in the most unexplored parts of Delhi and sit and read. For hours. All alone.

Then I head out, eat something really good and take of pictures. All alone. I am not on Facebook since a couple of years now – so I don’t really post them anywhere. They are just in my laptop and a very few of them get uploaded to my Instagram. On Sundays, I skip the morning shower and stay in my room for 8-10 hours – binge-watching several TV shows and movies. On weekdays, it’s mostly the same routine – get up and leave for work at around 10 and return by midnight. I open Whatsapp twice a day – before reaching office and after returning home. If I have to text something important to someone then I do send SMS.

I barely call people I know. It just freaks me out. I have no idea why. And yet, I manage to blabber my way through a 2-hour call with the client, who sits abroad and will never meet me. I have no idea why. I go for lunch/dinner in the office all by myself and spend the entire time scrolling down social media pages. I don’t have a bucket list. I am not overly religious. I am a Hindu but I visit the Gurudwara whenever I can. I look up for good texts on the internet and recite them. I attended a Christian convent school for 15 years and I read the Bible whenever I can. I pray a lot. I don’t fear God. Not one bit. I love Him. I don’t know why but the latest fad in India states that ‘praying and believing in God is not cool anymore, bruh’.

I have been called weird, arrogant, mean, lonely, reserved,unsocial, and reclusive and probably a hundred other things. Some people say that I am missing out on life. Because I don’t drink, I don’t smoke and I don’t do drugs. Or maybe because my Saturday nights are not spent at Haus Khas Social or some other pub in Delhi. Or maybe because I don’t open up to people. It has also been said that ‘I act as if I’m happy’ but I’m really not. I don’t know if ‘they’ are right. And I don’t care. Nobody apart from me gets to decide how I live my life. Right now, I am focusing on my first solo trip to Europe next year. I am a die-hard football follower and my club is based out of London and I have been planning to visit them since school. Moral of the story: It is your life. You live it the way you want to live it. Life is too short to be unhappy. Peace. Cheers!