Being Aware

Though freely moving around the world, we are caged by the burdens of every day life that we fail to see the beauty around us. Most of us are so engrossed in ourselves that we don’t even have time to see rather become aware of the things around us. We don’t have to go to exotic places to find nature’s beauty, just need to aware of the simple things around us like feeling the gentle breeze, enjoying drizzle from the window, watching the men at work etc . These things are not something new, these were the same things that we used to be interested and enjoy when we were kids. And we don’t need to become a philosopher or poet to enjoy these things, just need to bring out the ‘child’ in us. As a quote goes -“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."

Our daily routine runs on a time table we had set for ourselves. Unfortunately, even the breaks are strictly defined. This routine is so ingrained in our sub-conscious mind, that we do it even without actually being aware of it. In the process of automating the manual task at our work to make our life easier, we have automated our ‘personal’ routine, that we made our life so life-less!! It just keeps running until we interfere. Take a break and just be aware of things around us and enjoy them. These small breaks provide the ‘oiling’ to run the system better.

Sometime when things don’t work out and when life seems be too monotonous or dry, these are few things that we can fall back on for a break instead of breaking ourselves!! Let’s not bury the child-like spirit in us.