Living for the moment
by Restful Spirit on 2007-09-23
It is so easy to put of things until tomorrow and concentrate on the material comforts but once you start to feel disharmony with your current surroundings should you start to concentrate on living a life and fulfilling your life desires rather than just continuing on the treadmill?
Many religions ask us to focus upon death believing if you remember your mortality you will live for the day and grasp the opportunities that the day presents! A different aspect but supporting the same concept is that many top extreme sports people get there by recognising their mortality but ignore it believing what they are doing is more important them there own lives often described as a death wish. But often these people do not feel truly alive until they put themselves in this position!
So what am I trying to say? It is easy to put off ambitions until tomorrow and let the day-to-day routines take over. Sadly it is often an expected event that shakes you to realise that life is precious and that you need to refocus on the things you want rather than the things you are doing! But what would life be like if we work specifically to what we desire and that society allowed us to do this!
For example, what would your life be like if you wanted to travel around the world, and the organisation you work for recognised this desire and supported you wholehearted to achieve it? Would your motivation and loyalty to the company change? Would your perspective on life after the sabbatical change? What benefits could you then show your present and future employers?
Instead of working and loosing the concept of why you are working (accept to cover your bills) would you start to create key moments in your life and work towards them? Where would this lead, not only for yourself but also for society as a whole? It does not matter what the events are; sabbatical, having a baby, starting a business etc, what does matter is that you start to see life as a series of moments and devote enough time to develop them! After when you look back and remember, it is the moments you remember, not the time and not the money!
Many religions ask us to focus upon death believing if you remember your mortality you will live for the day and grasp the opportunities that the day presents! A different aspect but supporting the same concept is that many top extreme sports people get there by recognising their mortality but ignore it believing what they are doing is more important them there own lives often described as a death wish. But often these people do not feel truly alive until they put themselves in this position!
So what am I trying to say? It is easy to put off ambitions until tomorrow and let the day-to-day routines take over. Sadly it is often an expected event that shakes you to realise that life is precious and that you need to refocus on the things you want rather than the things you are doing! But what would life be like if we work specifically to what we desire and that society allowed us to do this!
For example, what would your life be like if you wanted to travel around the world, and the organisation you work for recognised this desire and supported you wholehearted to achieve it? Would your motivation and loyalty to the company change? Would your perspective on life after the sabbatical change? What benefits could you then show your present and future employers?
Instead of working and loosing the concept of why you are working (accept to cover your bills) would you start to create key moments in your life and work towards them? Where would this lead, not only for yourself but also for society as a whole? It does not matter what the events are; sabbatical, having a baby, starting a business etc, what does matter is that you start to see life as a series of moments and devote enough time to develop them! After when you look back and remember, it is the moments you remember, not the time and not the money!
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