It is so easy to be original

When I first started blogging, honestly I was not very sure how I will manage to fill page after page with content. It is indeed difficult to keep up with blogging.

Thoughts don't just keep coming to your mind in a sequence nor do good thoughts (which are worth capturing on the blog) happen when I am around a computer!!!

And so I started blogging slowly and a bit nervously. My own estimate was that may be within a couple of months I will run out of content and my blog will fade away...................like we all love starting so many new initiatives and activities but hardly carry them through till the end.

However I was determined. For a long time I had cherished this dream of writing a book. Would keep telling my husband that one that I will publish my own book! So when he introduced me to blogging it felt like a first step towards my dream of writing a book.

My initial posts are quite amateurish! But natural. No one is a born writer. For that matter no on is born anything. We all dream, aspire, learn and succeed at various things.....

The initial response was sort of okkk....nothing earth shattering. but it gave me immense satisfaction. A feeling of having created something....even if what I did was far from perfect or world class.....there was one sense of deep happiness.....I was original.....what I was writing was my own................my blog, its layout and its content everything was original.....

Gradually as comments started flowing in, I was more and more determined to keep writing. My blog which has started as a hobby is now a passion. The content flows out naturally....

And so came in this realization.....it is very easy to be original! All it requires is honesty, determination and passion. All great musicians were original. Beethoven, Mozart, our own Indian music maestro late Naushad. All great painters were original......be it Picasso, Van Gogh or our own M.F. Hussain. All great film maters were/are original....our own example is Shri Satyajit Ray.

It is so easy to be original....it is also effortless to be original.

Why are we so unhappy?

Like me, we all wonder. What has happened to man-kind to be so unhappy? Why is there so much unhappiness all around us? How come our ancestors were a happier lot? They had lesser of everything and yet far more of peace of mind and happiness.

There could be many many reasons for our unhappiness. But one which strikes me the most is lack of self control.

Every religion has prescribed a "way of life" which when practiced helps control our mind, i.e. thoughts and actions.

Prayer, meditation, charity, social service, healthy living by way of yoga, and so much more.....over thousands of years man-kind had devised and evolved tools and techniques which when practiced help live a fulfilling, complete and satisfied existence.

Practicing all this requires discipline. And discipline is what our fore-fathers and ancestors followed. Getting up early at the break of dawn requires sleeping early. which means having an early dinner which means cooking the evening meals early!

Well how's that possible in today's life?

Most people work/commute till late. So they reach home late. When we reach home late, we have a late dinner. When we have a late dinner, it means sleeping late. And when we sleep late, it is but obvious we wake up late........

And this is just one tiny example of how undisciplined lives we are living today.

From morning to night, we are reacting to life. Going with the flow of events. Like a tiny little straw floating in the river. Completely directionless, out of control.

Keep your thoughts disciplined, eat healthy food and maintain a balance in life. Be it in terms of our actions or our desires.

Please think how you can bring about some discipline back into your life.