Simplifying Life

Posted on Jan 11, 2020 by Harsha Vardhan (Founder Director & Trainer)

Remember your childhood? How easily you could get awed by simple things. The eyes of wonder would scan the world with innocence. The joys were deep hearted. The gathered impressions lasted a lifetime. The means were less but the joys were greater.

In this dynamic information age the goal posts have drastically changed from the times we grew up. The advent of online life, social media, brand consciousness, depleting family values, materially upward movement, peer pressure have all contributed towards a flock of people with unfulfilled needs. The abyss of ambition has gulped down people of all ages. The globalised world, fast to communicate, is compounding the greed to every corner of the world. The society is increasingly getting consumed by materialistic lust of more.

The wants have surpassed the needs. The wants have become necessities. Those unmet necessities lead to desperation and depression. It strains the fabric of society. The Me-First attitude is making people self centric. The relations have become need based. We have long lost the art of enjoying simple pleasures.

When did you last looked at the rising or setting sun? When did you enjoy the warmth of sun on your bare skin? When did you feel the caress of a light zephyr? When did you last pay attention to a bird chirping on your window? When did you last console a person who could not do a thing for you in return? When did you laugh again on a joke that you had heard before and not saying ‘yeah yeah heard it before’? When was it that you did not hold your phone for a day or more?

Ponder. Life beckons you back in it’s fold again. It is still waiting. It awaits you to be a child again. The simplicity of life is still amusingly looking at you with two arms out stretched towards you. Retrace your steps. Refine.. redefine your sense of fun. Re calibrate your consciousness. Back to innocence!! School of Unlearning beckons you.