when i get older i will be stronger
June 8th, 2010 § 6 Comments
the first time i heard this line, the idea struck me, enlightened me with the faith that with the advancement of the age, i will be a stronger person, will have learned from my mistakes and will be ready to avoid or tackle them.
i am going to be 21 in a few months and when i look back at my 15 year old self i realize how naive i was and the innocent mistakes i did wont be repeated as i have learned the lessons. But my thoughts changed when i look at my self now and think about the times i was sad all day for nothing was going right and also the times when everything in the world crashed on me and i was still able to smile and feel happy to just alive. there is no connection of my responses to my problems with my age. surely the problems of teenage wont look as big enough now but there are and will be new problems which will look equally important at that point of time. but my responses will be more or less the same. definitely the way of tackling them will change but the sorrow and distress they provide will be same.
i am sure when i am 70 or 80, i’ll have days like these when nothing will go right and there will be days when i will smile in spite of the world crashing down on me.
we humans have a thirst of knowledge. since our birth we have been asking questions,searching for the answers. well the truth is there is nothing to know. cos there is not a possibility that you can ever know everything no matter how long you live, no matter how intense your search is going to be. we know this but we still keep looking for the answers, reasons, knowledge every second of our lives.
when you are 80 you will know as much about this world as you knew when you were 10 or may be just when you were born. so why dont we stop pursuing answers? cos as we advanced we came to know a little part of our brain which likes to keep itself active by hunting for things not known previously. this keeps us alive, thinking that we can do something in this world, change something, do something our way and know the possibilities.
or may be humans can stop asking questions and looking for reasons in everything that happens, leave this endless search and let the things just be, feel them, touch them and rejoice in their being.
but then the world will be a happy place which is not intended by its creator. and thats why we are mere humans.
maybe someday i’ll try doing this, stop my reasoning and feel the beingness and if i am able to do this and still think of writing about it here then believe me it will again be an act of letting you ‘know’
the day we stop questioning, we will turn into recorders for our 5 senses.. mere recorders
enjoy everything as much, but u’ll eventually have to ask … wat now?? or why? or why not??
thats human
well my friend, that is the problem i am trying to talk about.. we humans believe that finding answers is the reason why we should live.. we think knowledge is essential for our survival..
the day we stop doing this, we might have a better life and not just recording sensations but actually feeling them with no obligation to act upon on them..
ok coming to the roots
wat does living mean???
and yes knowledge is essential for survival
knowledge tells me not to jump from a tower if i want to live
nice thoughts…in addition as I always say
“Life is a curse..but quite beautiful”
In my opinion…
The less common sense, less intelligence, less knowledge you have….more happy you will be. sometime or other we often get irritated with slow going stuff…like internet or time…but its all relative,,,,make yourself slow and everything around you will go fast…n you’ll love it…believe me. But the knowledge, the intelligence , the uncontrollable question mark in your mind makes you go fast ..n so u suffer.
morover…people say that old age is similar to childhood…the reason behind that according to me is …in both of these stages you are absolutely uninterested in gaining knowledge, money, status etc…but what interests me is the reason behind… it is totally different ..actually opposite…In childhood you are unaware of the knowledge that is floating around and so u dont get desparate for it,,,on the other hand in old age, you have already realised that there is no point in gaining more knowledge as you are going to die soon…regardless of the age,,,if you dont feel lyk that ..you are still young and fool…
no offence…but everything you learn does not end up giving you knowledge…u learn to walk…but you dont say that i have the knowledge to walk…this is not knowledge..
afterall…PT supports me \m/ wish I was old and a little…..sentimental \m/
Nice thoughts but you know even better when u actually see it through and just do it or let it happen
Yes.. Life is a complex puzzle.. and when we finally see some pieces together making some sense we realize the importance of individual pieces of past that make our present.. and of present which will make our future..