Life is too short to think about small things and too long to not have them :-)

62 years of Independence, 3 pegs of Black Dog, 4 Pegs of Glen Drummond, 1 pint of Tubourg and 5 shots of Baileys could not do it but 1 message did...
It is strange that after almost 16 months, I am back on my blog but not because of anything else except a short 1 liner from a friend asking me why I do not blog anymore!! Answer is simple: The classic lame excuse - 'I don't get time for all this...'. But today I am taking out that time and writing about something that I have always wanted to.

Although history was my favourite subject in social studies, I never understood why we should know about our history; I still do not have any idea. But the interesting part is that every time this question came back to me, I always thought of my own life's history and it has always led to introspection resulting every time into a new learning. Today the catalyst was a question for which I did not have a good answer and made me think again. This is the 2nd time in 3 days that I have been asked a question for which I did not have a concrete answer. I know all this sounds vague but so have been the answers in my mind - I guess introspection always leads to a situation like this...

So what's the learning of today's introspection? - Life is too short to think about small things and too long to not have them :-)

Often we do not notice the 'signs' that the world wants us to see and with the result, we fail to appreciate that comes to us. Even if we manage to notice these 'signs', more often than not, we do not value them. I guess the key is to look for those 'signs' and grab them because you never know what is in store for you tomorrow. My most memorable days of my life are still those moments where almost insignificant things happened to me - catching butterflies in my house, playing cricket with my brother, my first movie marathon in Qatar, my crush in school, burning my hands trying to save my popcorn, cooling the beer bottles in the water cooler of a hostel, the double rainbows, the crazy little things in office, etc. The fact is that after so many years, I find these incidents insignificant or small but at that point of time, they were huge events for me.

We keep on reciting our history in front of strangers, friends, relatives and colleagues without realizing that these were probably the 'signs' that we were suppose to grab and we did. The important questions are that were there more such 'signs' that I missed noticing and is it that my life would have been more pleasant if I would have - for sure yes... Unfortunately, I cannot go back in time but can I use my senses more effectively to grab more of them in future - for sure yes...

Life is seriously too long to not have such moments so let us go ahead and look for those 'signs' and safely store it in our memories so that when we look back, life looks more balanced and brings a smile on our face :-)

Cheers