It is nice to have a dream, and live it day in and day out. This becomes even more interesting when the dream is not about a specific destination; but about a journey.
When it comes to journey, there are primarily two aspects of it that qualifies it – direction and being in action. The moment any of these aspects cease to exist, the journey does not remain a journey. It transmutes to stagnation.
Another very interesting aspect about a journey is its sensuous seduction. Being in a journey, the traveler is absolutely seduced by what she is going to explore, see, experiment and learn. She doesn’t even have a passing reference to what she has left behind, when she started the journey. It becomes a unidirectional cruise towards present and future – towards the unseen, unexplored. Life transforms to a solo journey solely in the pursuit of learning, experience, and exploration.
I see myself as a solo traveler in a dream cruise. I am in a journey in the pursuit of learning - in all its forms - what life has to offer - in terms of books, life situations, people, institutions, relationships, etc, etc. Yes, I am an eternal student. Life is my classroom. And all around me are my teachers. In process of learning, sometimes I brush on others something they too might in-case learn from me. Life becomes pretty exciting when it takes the shape of such a pursuit.
To be specific this pursuit is consciously directed to understand life, nature, humans, and civilizations. It is also directed towards learning and contemplating on what great souls of yester years had to say. It makes me feel very grateful when I find this vast plethora of wisdom left behind by thousands of great men and women since last thousands of years. Certainly life appears to have such a short duration to be able to read, contemplate and synthesize holistically all this universe of knowledge. To be able to do justice to this pursuit of knowledge, hence it is imperative for the traveler to narrow down to one specific domain. That makes things manageable.
For me I have chosen the domain of the cognitive world of Human Beings. It is about the way humans think, behave and create. It is about what and how humans have thoughts, behaved and created since inception of human race, till the current era. Certainly this domain asks me to do deep study into psychology, brain science, anthropology, evolutionary sciences, history, evolution of various major religions, and other related humanitarian disciplines. Along with these I have chosen to also delve into the mind of the poets, writers and other literary behemoths. It gives me a great insight into various lateral thoughts and new ideas what the great poets and writers had to say. This certainly gives a deeper insight into how human beings think. Ofcourse I am just a pygmy infront of this vast possibility!
The best part of my journey I have chosen for myself is that it gives me an opportunity to know myself, and people around me better. The outcome of that is I get an opportunity to know life in a more profound way. I strongly feel it is a life being fully lived – about utilizing the grand opportunity conferred on me – by the accidents of nature – inform of my existence!
Another very important dimension to this journey is the overarching meaning attached to this journey. This is the most important aspect, which decides the value of the journey. The degree of sensuousness of the journey depends on how magnanimous the meaning of the journey is. For me I have chosen the purpose and the sole meaning of the journey of my life to achieve a victory for mankind. A victory dedicated to humanity itself. A victory that enables mankind to do something what it is not able to do at present. Achieving this victory makes my life relevant. I feel giving my best in order to achieve such a victory would make me feel on my death bed – “WOW what a life I have lived!!”. At the same time I will feel that I did justice to countless such synchronicities the universe endowed on me in my life, giving me that invaluable vantage point to go to the next level!
Yes, I have miles to go before I sleep. I have already spent 33 years of my life. Almost half of the life is over. In the remaining part left, I have to scale mountains high, swim across oceans vast, allow deeper scars in my soul, explore uncharted lands, and also have to create a legacy – a meaningful legacy – for generations to come!
I have a dream. The dream is this journey I am in…
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When it comes to journey, there are primarily two aspects of it that qualifies it – direction and being in action. The moment any of these aspects cease to exist, the journey does not remain a journey. It transmutes to stagnation.
Another very interesting aspect about a journey is its sensuous seduction. Being in a journey, the traveler is absolutely seduced by what she is going to explore, see, experiment and learn. She doesn’t even have a passing reference to what she has left behind, when she started the journey. It becomes a unidirectional cruise towards present and future – towards the unseen, unexplored. Life transforms to a solo journey solely in the pursuit of learning, experience, and exploration.
I see myself as a solo traveler in a dream cruise. I am in a journey in the pursuit of learning - in all its forms - what life has to offer - in terms of books, life situations, people, institutions, relationships, etc, etc. Yes, I am an eternal student. Life is my classroom. And all around me are my teachers. In process of learning, sometimes I brush on others something they too might in-case learn from me. Life becomes pretty exciting when it takes the shape of such a pursuit.
To be specific this pursuit is consciously directed to understand life, nature, humans, and civilizations. It is also directed towards learning and contemplating on what great souls of yester years had to say. It makes me feel very grateful when I find this vast plethora of wisdom left behind by thousands of great men and women since last thousands of years. Certainly life appears to have such a short duration to be able to read, contemplate and synthesize holistically all this universe of knowledge. To be able to do justice to this pursuit of knowledge, hence it is imperative for the traveler to narrow down to one specific domain. That makes things manageable.
For me I have chosen the domain of the cognitive world of Human Beings. It is about the way humans think, behave and create. It is about what and how humans have thoughts, behaved and created since inception of human race, till the current era. Certainly this domain asks me to do deep study into psychology, brain science, anthropology, evolutionary sciences, history, evolution of various major religions, and other related humanitarian disciplines. Along with these I have chosen to also delve into the mind of the poets, writers and other literary behemoths. It gives me a great insight into various lateral thoughts and new ideas what the great poets and writers had to say. This certainly gives a deeper insight into how human beings think. Ofcourse I am just a pygmy infront of this vast possibility!
The best part of my journey I have chosen for myself is that it gives me an opportunity to know myself, and people around me better. The outcome of that is I get an opportunity to know life in a more profound way. I strongly feel it is a life being fully lived – about utilizing the grand opportunity conferred on me – by the accidents of nature – inform of my existence!
Another very important dimension to this journey is the overarching meaning attached to this journey. This is the most important aspect, which decides the value of the journey. The degree of sensuousness of the journey depends on how magnanimous the meaning of the journey is. For me I have chosen the purpose and the sole meaning of the journey of my life to achieve a victory for mankind. A victory dedicated to humanity itself. A victory that enables mankind to do something what it is not able to do at present. Achieving this victory makes my life relevant. I feel giving my best in order to achieve such a victory would make me feel on my death bed – “WOW what a life I have lived!!”. At the same time I will feel that I did justice to countless such synchronicities the universe endowed on me in my life, giving me that invaluable vantage point to go to the next level!
Yes, I have miles to go before I sleep. I have already spent 33 years of my life. Almost half of the life is over. In the remaining part left, I have to scale mountains high, swim across oceans vast, allow deeper scars in my soul, explore uncharted lands, and also have to create a legacy – a meaningful legacy – for generations to come!
I have a dream. The dream is this journey I am in…
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Nice Samrat, you have always been saying these thing. Nice to have a glimpse of this again.
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