Life: a common misconception of life is living it to the fullest. What does that really mean??? Most people think its filling the jar of life with as much as can be crammed in and more!!
I know people who stay late to do their work, get back home, barely sleep and wake up again early to get more done: when they look back on these bygone years, it may not be these memories that seem precious. Even the pub-hoppers who stay up till three or four to get to the next pub to meet their next gang of friends and rock through the night- some can barely recall or relate to what happened through the night!
I for one have forever been chastised by my mother as lazy- because I can’t cut into my beauty sleep and my leisure reading for anything- be it work or studies. I’d much rather postpone the work than my current toast in literature (although sacrificing sleep for literature is an option I’ve exercised time and again, much to my mother’s chagrin)… Does that mean my life is being wasted: just because I prefer quiet reading to parties!!! No way!!! When I look back upon such episodes when I’ve refused to call or spend time with people due my engrossing hobby- because reading fills my soul.. It carves new tableaus and renders new heights: each new book is full of potential and rarely have I rued my choice of reading… For me, when I do something- its of more consequence if done in my own time frame rather than cramped with half a dozen other things of which I can recall none at a later time…
An hour spent on the beach just listening to the waves can be much more memorable as compared to an alternative choice in squandering my time- after all its my life; it should be for my benefit- of what purpose is a sleepless night- I ma more liable to forget what I did then: even with my friends I have the faintest recollection of our group activities but rather vivid and vibrant memories of a few of us hanging about… Such is life: the more you try to stuff in, the more gets strained out… be careful with how much you try to squeeze for you may miss the essence in the end…
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