A DEEPER VISION into SMALL THINGS of LIFE
By: Shatakshi Goyal
Tags: Thinking, Acceptance, Breathing, Sleeping, Beyourself

There are so many things that I daily do. I take so many things for granted. I have never really given a thought to any of them until now and here’s what I found :

THE ACTIVITIES WHICH I TOOK FOR GRANTED :

1) THOUGHTS

Thinking is the one thing which all living humans do more than anything. On an average a person thinks 60k thoughts per day. When I was small I believed that breathing was the most frequent thing a person did but I was proven wrong. The answer is thinking and not breathing. On an average every second a person has 0.694… thoughts. On gaining this information I felt the urge to improve my thoughts or do something, change something. I just couldn’t tolerate that I, for so long had been working on myself but did not even realise that I was not noticing the one thing which I do the most. It was so foolish of me.

This is how I improved upon it :

Think — Plan the day and the action. Don’t wait for the last moment for things to happen but be prepared. Think because it is the start to everything be it a relationship, aim, task or anything.

2. My thoughts are my thoughts — I can think whatever I want to with no one imposing a censorship on it. The key to finding my true self is to let myself think what I really want to think and it shouldn’t be governed with people’s views or any filters.

3.Don’t hide it under a shell — What is the point of thinking great ideas if I do not have the courage of implementing them? I learned not to just think freely but implement my actions. Because no work can be done more better than one which comes from my own mind.

4. Don’t stop — Repeat the cycle. Apply this to all the thoughts and not just one.

2)BREATHING

Breathing keeps us alive and an average human takes 20k breathes per day. This is obviously not a new fact but when I thought over it I realised that maybe I could bring out a deeper meaning of it.

There are many things in life which I, like many have got and I have overlooked. I spent my entire life complaining about what I don’ t have and what others do. But I never really opened my eyes to look at the things which I have got just like others have.

For a long time I wondered how to attain satisfaction from what I have got and these things made me discover the answers. There are many things which A person doesn’t have, many things which B person doesn’t have. Yet there are many things which I have just like the others. When I take breaks from whatever work I am currently doing, I feel it. I feel my breathes and I feel joyed and satisfied. I feel that I may not have everything but I can still enjoy what I have got.

3) SLEEPING

I sleep for 8 hrs a day and it irritates me. Sleeping for so long, wasting one third of a day just in sleeping. So I decided to remove ‘sleeping’ from my daily schedule and here’s what I went through and gained from it :

I spent a day without sleeping :

I lived on coffee the entire day which has caffeine in it which increases our heart rate and blood pressure . I spent my extra time on watching movies and Netflix. I couldn’t concentrate on any task I was doing as I was sleepy all day.

What I concluded : There are some inevitable things which every person has to do, which every person faces and I can not avoid it. Same is the thing with problems. I can not avoid them, I have to face them. I may defeat one but the cycle will repeat. And all I can do is face and manage them.

It will keep occurring every time but If I overlook and avoid it, it will be my own loss. Be it sleep or problems face it.