At End of The Year 2019 The Books I Read That Helped Me Make Sense Of Life!

FIVE KEY POINTS THAT I EXPERIENCE WITH LIFE !

We all know that life is a journey towards the uncertainty. Just for an example, somewhere the life is running through the idea of Capitalism, race for establishment & the thoughts of Realism, just a political science student is putting his immature thought in the very beginning, nothing more than this ! 

Now, why we need dreams to live ?

I think some of you have read one of the best-selling books in history titled, "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. The book itself a powerful combo of life lessons & inspirations. Among these aspects, the book clearly puts a very meaningful message to the readers to make the decisions to focus on our own journey. There’s nothing wrong with taking advice & learning from others, but make sure it aligns with our desires & passions. Simply can say that people all over the world to live their dreams. Thankfully, those authors never gave up !

It's okay.... you need not to comply with it at all. Although, it's up to you! Just sharing what I go through the whole year in 2019!

Have You Lost Something ?

It does often feel like that somewhere we have just lost something! Memory slips; what we have lost somewhere??  Something that could be amazing for us ! But no.. we lost it !! Now, it seems that most all of us are pre planning for the new year with new hopes & aspirations; similarly we are memorizing the past events! What we have or what we have gained in this passing year!! Too many times in life, we are so focused on the past & future that we do not quite think about the moment, the present that we are living & a part of us. It’s normal, not to pay attention to things which are surrounding with us! Hence, you need to ask a question to yourself; have you really lost something? 

I don’t know what's going on your mind right now & whether you are getting or not about the point that I want to make. Try to conclude here, with the life lessons from Robin Sharma's book, "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari", "The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do & then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life & all your desires are filled with ease & grace."

Meanwhile, the book teaches us that we can only change when we make space for change in our lives.

Let’s Talk about Change !

Here comes to the end days of the year 2019. It was full of ups & downs & along with all these some sort of memorable in some ways; likewise the life of a normal human being. 2019, also a year which has changed me much; emotionally & mentally. Nowards, the calendar will also change; but for me the target remains the same!   But, this is not the point; the point is ‘the change’ - which is not easy especially for others to accept it !

Now , I take the references of an Assamese book, “ Probal Ichha Shakti aaru Aatmotkarxar Sadhana”,(in English- Strong will power & self-refinement practice) written by Dr Nirmala Devi. The book mainly for the young readers, where the author encourages us to look beyond traditional careers by seeking to  develop the creative thinking.

The writer advocates that each & every individual have some approachable power; mostly for the time being, we fail to make it a part of our life. This is the irony.

Quite true that we live with self; but we fail to find out the basic tenets of self!  Simply put, we do not know about self, which is the biggest obstacle to grow up in our life. For which we need to refinement self & absorbs some changes in life in our way of living !

At the end,  the point is that when you have absorbed the change to attain some targets of your own life then there will be some people who stay far from you, even in your family members or close ones! Trust me, I am not encouraging you to take any revolutions against your own people. Sharing just a fact that if you think that some changes may be required for your life to keep moving or growing then don’t stop especially for others! Please don’t stop, do it ! Just keep going & keep growing !!

What is Life's Truest Desire?

As we are human beings, we all have some desires in life ! Know that some of us already have received what we desired in earlier & some desires are still far from us ! our desires stick to lifelong, one after another, which is a never ending process! Along with the new year resolutions we silently also aspire some desires to come true in the coming year!

Believe me or not, but nobody gets to make me happy or sad ! Life & how I experience it is simply my choice. By my definition, I have always been a winner because I ever improve. Nothing can be taken from me that is truly mine. I always command my wish.  When life slaps you in the face, smile & go on with that which makes you truly happy. You can choose happiness regardless of what anyone says or does. This should be your truest desires in life.

In-spite of this, Napoleon Hill wrote in his book, “Think & Grow Rich” that  desires are the starting point of all the achievements. Later he also added “ There is a difference between wishing for a thing & being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish ...”

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life; it needs truest desire to grab the opportunity.

The Story of Life -

What is life in its way of living ? Definitely answers are not the same individual to individual.  Although, we all have some sort of ideas about life. But, knowing about the life is also not so simple.

Here, I am not going to share ideas of self about life because immaturity is still with me  to talk or share on this regard. Therefore, I take a reference of the most popular novels of this decade written in Hindi, “Dark Horse, Ek Ankahi Dastan” by Nilotpal Mrinal.

The book is the story based on life's struggles by trying to immense vivid portrayal of life. Dark Horse is a journey through the negativity to positivity. No matter where we are in our career, our ability to focus to grab the opportunity is only the key of success. This mindset can guide us to a life of purpose, authenticity, and achievement. This is the belief of a civil service aspirant Santosh, who is the lead character of Dark Horse.

To be honest, the meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain & obvious and so simple. Life is indenting the future & living the moment. One small act of endeavour to achieve the goal can create the road to our own destiny. Life, to me, is an amazing opportunity!

To conclude, my sincere apologies for sharing my personal experiences if I have put any mistakes or said anything the vast untrue!  But I feel it's necessary to share something for this important subject & I have tried my level best to inculcate the things that I have learnt so far.

Thanks for your happy reading !

 

MIND OF MINE

by    SUMIT ACHARYA

( An Author as Guest Appearance )

                                   
Somehow I feel like, everything is supposed to be fine now. I won't take you long back into my life that will be boring right. Because I am not that famous at all or simply I have no any great story to share with you! Hope one fine day I will be, and this will all make sense and it will be more interesting. Then I will write from the very beginning. But for today, let me take you all ahead of time, and begin where I am in my life.

So, Where to start or what to write? Here, I have faced a bit confusing or lost myself by thinking out loud to hypothesize that what should be on my writing!

One day, Basanta dada approached me to write something, while I had stated that I also wish to write but never tried before. I was very excited as well as flabbergasted at the moment, excited because he encouraged me to write & stated that I can also write. Flabbergasted because of my fear & anxiety to start writing & still thinking that how can dada  saying all this I can also write? Because, likely to everyone I also know about myself!!

Moving on, Basanta dada is well-known to me. Those who know him won’t disagree with me that he often writes on socio-political, gender and other issues on various digital media outlets besides his blogs. For me, have you watched that LOREAL advertisement on T.V.? Which says, five problems one solution. In the same way, I use to chant. “Any problem? One solution; BASANTA DA!” I think, you can guess that what the importance of dada in my life! If not, will tell on one fine day!

Meanwhile, back to the point! When dada approached me to write, I was lost. No, no. Not a Mela, Bazar or the Street likewise the story lines of old Hindi movies! I was lost in my mind. Sounds funny right! How could it be? He is exaggerating, many will say that, but trust me that’s the truth. Also, I am a student of Psychology, so it is not acceptable for me to get lost in myself, right? But even doctors fell ill. So, I guess what happened then was a very human thing. Although, I was surrounded with a lot of people, everybody around me used to assume, that I was a get along person, but I wasn’t. I was always fond of loving myself more. I prioritized higher and I liked it. I love being alone. But being alone didn’t mean I was a sociopath. I used to watch a lot of series (web series), movies, read books, play games, sleep... God! I feel like a Panda sometimes. So, I was a happy little teen busy in his own little world.

But this easiness was about to end !!

Knock, knock... Who’s there? Humans !! Humans who? Open the door and you will know.

And my happy little world shattered into pieces. I started getting along with HUMANS. At the beginning it was fun and thrilling. What an experience, it was! I loved it. I was so enjoying it, that I forgot who I am and what my identity. I was the happiest person alive at that moment. Because I was away from home and I was roaming making new friends, having new stuff and liked it.

But, somewhere deep below the Mind of Mine wasn’t liking it. Maybe it also tried to stop me. Not maybe, I am sure it did try. And I didn’t choose to listen. And the conflict thus began. The mind says something, I do the opposite. At first, no such problems occurred, but gradually the conflict became so strong that I had a breakdown. The body after so many rejections ultimately gave up and I was trapped in my mind. I was lost…

There is a very famous proverb, “Even the darkest cloud, have a Silver Lining”. For me there were two rays of hope. The 1st remains confidential for now, and the second was none other than my problem solver Basanta da. He somehow came to know about my situation, which I haven’t shared with any Humans then, because the reason why I went through that breakdown were also humans, so I stopped trusting a soul other than that confidential one, but dada came to know about it and came to the rescue.

Since then life has changed dramatically. I wasn’t serious in life; I was self obsessed (I am still).I was directionless. But now I think I know who I am. And also, I think I know the potential that I have within me. And hope so, I am in a right path now…

At the end, what did I learn from my journey? To answer this I have a dialogue, “Kabhi Kabhi, Kuch pane k liye, kuch khona bhi padta hai”. What did I lose? My personal space, my sophisticated little world. And what did I gain? Insight and spiritualisation. If you ask me what spiritualisation is? The answer is going to be when you become aware of your potential and strive towards attaining it, happily without any fear and regrets, you become spiritualized. So, sometimes it’s good to go with the flow and when you realize it’s time to halt. Put on your breaks and stop right there and then. So, sometimes it’s good to go with the flow and when you realize it’s time to halt. Put on your breaks and stop right there and then. In my case I was lucky enough to have two paddlers to help me applying those breaks.

This is all for today. Thanks for your happy reading !
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

SUMIT ACHARYA, A 20 year graduates student having a degree in Psychology, a devotee of Lord Shiva; who dreams a lot and wants to bring a change. Not to the society or the generation but to himself, first.

 

 

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“ Be Cool, I will also respect your choice! After all, everyone has the right to choose the Colours of Life!!”

 

The #10YearsChallenge!

Dear Readers, hope you have been doing well !!

In recent times, everybody is taking the #10YearsChallenge on social networking sites like facebook & instagram,  as the name suggests, requires people to share their 10-year-old picture alongside a recent picture to show their transformation. Probably, this brings fun, curiosity & fantasy to see how the way 10 years of life has passed !  Now, I’m trying to do something different  ! Let’s find out the transformation in different way   than what you looked like 10 years ago !

As we know that Life is a journey & journey is more important than its destination ! The #10YearsChallenge realizes us that how the time has changed ! Transformations are not just physical, they go deeper than this 10 years. Most importantly our life has changed a lot with time & everyone realizes the same!

 

Now, you should be proud of it that you have successfully lived at least your 10 years of life, whether there are lots of obstacles, disappointments or unhappiness, but you have countered & lived your life in your way. Therefore, you should stop thinking or should not have the fear about the future, because you will also capable to joy in your further life likewise the last 10 years !

This 10 years of life gives us lots of lessons; like lesson of maturity, still we are immature but maturity level is increased than the last ten years. Now,   we are more confident than the confidence level of 10 year ago! ! Now, we all can smile more perfectly than the 10 years ago, because we all have experienced to hide the tears in the tough time too! More or less we all have experienced the life’s all the crucial times in this 10 years. Always remember, you have lived this 10 years & countered all the difficulties throughout on your own way ! Therefore, never be disappointed on your achievement; you have almost won the 10 years of life!!

Lastly, repeating once again that life is journey & today we have reached to this point by slugging all the problems ! Life goes on this way & we just keep to remember that never be tired while walking on the path of life!

Please feel free to write on any point that concerns you & get in touch with me for any queries that you may have. Hope to hear from you!  Thanks!!

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