Have The Courage To Live

Have you ever wondered when was the last time you had some quality time, read a book, watched the sunrise or sunset, prayed feeling every single word you say, went to a garden and laid down on the grass, chilled out and relaxed. I bet it has been a very long time since you did any of these things!

We are too busy nowadays to realize that we are wasting the best years of our lives, we are too busy to notice that time is slipping from our hands, we wake up early, get ready and leave for work, we get stuck in traffic, we feel angry and then arrive to work in a bad mood, we are drown into meetings, mails, sheets and papers, then we leave and get stuck again in traffic just to feel more angry when we get back home late, feeling physically and mentally exhausted, we change our cloth, maybe take a shower and eat and suddenly we look to the clock hanging on the wall to realize it’s time to sleep to wake up again early to go to work, and even on weekends and holidays, we’re either working from home or office since modern technology now allows us to work from anywhere, they invented laptops, cell phones & blackberries so that we are available seven days a week! And even if we are not working then we are busy according to our gender whether we are shopping for the house or fixing the car or fixing something in the house or cooking and cleaning or following up on our personal business -if we have any- and in a blink of an eye the vacation is over and we are back to the same endless loop.

With this enormous advance in technology we find ourselves always busy, between the phone and the cell phone, the PC and the laptop, the iphone and the blackberry, the e-mail and the voice mail, the facebook and twitter, the messenger and the yahoo!

All these amazing inventions made us more busy and have no time left for ourselves and disconnected from the important people around us, we make ourselves busy with the things that doesn’t matter instead of the things that does matter! Twenty years from now you will forget who’s the genius who invented the facebook or the messenger, in fact right now you probably don’t know and don’t care who invented the facebook and messenger but you will never forget a friend who helped you one day when you were in need, neither will you ever forget an amazing trip you had with your friends or family to the sea where you had some quality time. Twenty years from now you will never remember the meetings, the mails and the deadlines, but you will never forget that these meetings, mails and deadlines took you from your family and friends; they even took you from yourself!

When you read this article you have three choices; the first one is to disagree with it and keep on living this lie we all live in, the second one is agree with it and do nothing to change this sad truth and that’s what the majority will do, the third one is to agree with it and do some real effort to change this sad truth and that’s what probably the minority will do and maybe even none!

The fact is; one day will come and we’ll regret wasting all this time on the less important things in life or maybe we won’t even live till the day we regret such things!

So, take a stand now and change your way of life, have some quality time, forget the facebook and messenger, forget the mails and deadlines and go watch the sunset, spend few days by the sea, lay down on the grass or read a decent book, play with infants, laugh from the heart, put your worries in an ice box, enjoy life, disconnect yourself from what’s less important to connect to what’s more important.

Have the courage to live!

1/1/2011