MOVING OUT! MOVING IN!!

MOVING OUT, MOVING IN

Settled finally into a new city, I’m back to normal routine & have actually found time to sit & think of the kind of dynamism my life has seen in last few days!

Before I go further, I want to share one of the related incidents that I'm reminded of today.

So, once I was a part of a 3 day course from AOL. The day would start at 5:30 in the morning till 9 in the evening. We would have a lot of activities going throughout the day. People who have attended such courses must know of it.

One day gone, the second day arrived, I sat on the place I had the day before, & everybody unconsciously or consciously did the same as a matter of fact.

Observing this symmetry, the Guruji asked, (& I vividly remember his words); “Why is everybody sitting at the same place as yesterday? A sense of owning it already! Even after knowing that post 3 days the particular place you are seated at won't matter anymore & probably be taken by someone else?”

He continued, “Don’t you think we do exactly the same everywhere in our lives? Each one who has taken birth is destined to leave this place someday. And what do we do in between? We live at a place today & announce it ours, even after clearly knowing that somebody else will own that spot after we are gone. So why such obsession? Why such fights over a piece of land?”

I learnt a lesson that day! A lesson of “detachment from the material things”.

It’ll be wrong if I declared today that I completely am detached from my home at the city I had been living for the past 3 years. I’d like to be honest that I haven’t reached such heights of “detachment with contentment” yet. After all, the obsession doesn’t go easy! And to me it is not just of the land but of the love I received from the people I came close to, of the culture I got introduced to, of the projects I executed living here during these 3 years.

And at the end of the day, what is land anyway? Just a set of coordinates in the space! Right? And I don’t let some numbers interfere with my purpose in life.

After all, the lesson I learnt has stayed with me, & that my “Why” is still bigger than my “How”.

Embracing nature’s law-CHANGE, as it comes my way!