Kudos to Mr. Robin Sharma, of using the title for his dry and repetitive jargon of how you should be the difference in the world , be a nice person , and sell a Ferrari ( from his previous notes !!) .
As always, Sunday evenings are second best spent going to Crossword Bookstore at Bandra, and see what people are purchasing. To a great extent, I beg to differ with R. Sriram's ( Crossword's boss) recommendations, although he adds Atlas Shrugged to his list (Im surprised Fountainhead didn't make an appearance). By the way, the best thing to do on a Sunday evening is to procrastinate and also bitch about the next week.
So in the rightly titled " Self - Help or Self - Improvement" section ( You really need help if you purchase any book from this category), Robin Sharma has virtually taken over the full category! He has left no stone unturned in giving zany titles to his one - hundred odd pages of crap. I blame our readers for this, Why are they so unsure about themselves. Hell, if we all were perfect and had no worries, what the fuck would be the point of living in Earth, we would all be in heaven, wouldn't we?
In my comprehensive survey ( I asked 2 -3 people) on what is their Greatest Fear, I was not surprised when "Death" ruled over the other options. ( Other options being - heights, Abhay Bhatia etc.) . I was curious, why death? The spontaneous answer - because we do not know what happens once we die. I am puzzled - Do we know whats happening while we are alive? "We'll, at least we know we are breathing, and can think , and see, and feel and touch ." I have time, so the next question comes natural to me. " But don't you also know that you CANT breathe, think, see, feel and touch when your dead?" I am greeted with a pissed off expression , sometimes even an expression of pity. "Well, you can be born the next instant from another womb, or you can become a spirit moving around Just Around The Corner(JATC) ( That's the birthplace of weird questions. Jesus was born in Jerusalem, Weird questions were born in JATC). Hmmmm. interesting . After sometime, my victim adds, " Well, you also fear for your loved ones." I ask, in what way. Response: "That they ll be all alone and sad.". I chuckle, REALLY? I get the same pissed off expression. But then I ask, Do you say such a thing, because you feel bad for them, or you feel bad for yourself ( a.k.a Self Pity)?. Thats the googly.
Yes, death is certain, but it is uncertainly certain. Yes we will not be part of conversations, victims of torture, partners in crime and many more combinations, once we are gone. So, we have reason to fear, because we are forced to believe that we make a difference in this world. That the Earth may stop revolving, once we are gone. That we wont be there for the party. These sort of feelings are amongst all of us, we are human after all.
Religions try to pacify us by promising that death is actually the greatest celebration. We shall rise from the grave. We will be in heaven where Kurt Cobain will not have guns or coke to kill himself. But, for being on the guest list of Heaven, we need to be good children. How bloody convenient. And to top it all, all these things are forced into us as little children. So half our cause of worry since we are legal enough to think is that, are we living life in the right way? Are we dead sure that God is happy with us, and our death will indeed be a celebration?
Because of this, we end up living life much less than a 100%. We worry too much, psychiatrists are minting money giving bull crap and advising people to read the latest Robin Sharma book. Its all a racket. I want to state down some few things I feel people are not told.
1. It is normal to be confused, to not know what you are doing in life.
2. Everyone dies. Everyone has it in the back of their mind that they will not be here someday.
3. You are not weird, when you fail in your career, relationship or you fail yourself.
4. No one knows answers to all questions except Wikipedia.
5. Death is not the most important thing to be concerned about in Life. Death has to be there, because the day has the night, because the book eventually has an ending, because the last song has to be sung, because some things have to be stated Post Script. (P.S), and because every case has to have an outcome. You will not be really entertained if the same process went on and on and you were witness to it.
6. DEATH IS OVERRATED. Its nothing great, its like good sleep. Once your asleep, you never worry about waking up.
Instead of worrying about death, lets start worrying about not living life. The concept of wake up - job -come home - sleep is getting extinct. We have to realise that the level of boredom in our lives is the result of the input we give it. Stop caring about how people feel about you and start worrying about how you feel about yourself. That, my friend, when done, will be a bigger celebration then Death.
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