Where's your remote?

Life is beautiful ( and short too!)….I was surrounded by a number of situations highlighting the same. Apparently, all in one day.

I am sure some of you would have read my last blog “Serendipity” which was around how uncertain things are at times and we don’t always end up getting what we want. What is more important is what we make out of what we get.

Earlier in the morning, I picked up this book by the same name and read this quote.

“For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned to me that these obstacles were my life.” ~ Bette Howland.

Later in the day, I got this beautiful message from my colleague Santosh

2^nd Week of June

It is the time when few years back the most exciting thing used to happen...
The school used to re-open...the excitement of new bag, new books,

smell from the pages of new books, new subjects, new sitting positions in the class...
welcome our best friends in d class..
and the best moment is to c ur crush ur sweetheart back in front of ur eyes and the pouring rains outside,

everything around us freshened up, lush green, cold and pleasant...
all dis is lost somewhere...just close ur eyes and revive it for d moment.. Soo miss it!
Miss my school days ...

Then in the evening, I got a message from my colleague and uber cool Ankur Kapoor to share a blog around this. I was driving on my way back and I try to put these things together in this blog.

Just when I got home, I was informed by my wife that a close relative of her friend expired at the age of 30 today. She was suffering from cancer which got undetected till last month. I pray for her soul to rest in peace.

Moving on, I remembered watching this movie “Click” in which the protagonist Adam Sandler stumbles upon a remote control by which he can fast forward , rewind his life at the click of a button. What had started off as a fun movie, by the end of it, there was a very deep message to it. I seriously recommend everyone to watch it once. Also, it wouldn’t change life much but surely would make you think once about where you are in your life today. We need to enjoy every moment of life with our near and dear ones because who everyone knows there’s a tomorrow but you might not be in it! We do sometimes need to sit back and take a fresh look at life. Do the small things you always wanted to do, share it with the ones you love. Fact is that we get only one life. You can’t wait for tomorrow to start living.

I leave you all with this thought –

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is - Whether you are alive before death. ~ Osho

P.S – What you draw from this blog is entirely upto your own imagination. Life would continue to exist as it was before reading this blog or any other thing…don’t forget the remote of your life is in your hands.  Take the right decision NOW!. And as a matter of fact, so is the keyboard of the blackberry or the laptop on which you are reading this. Do share your comments on this! (else I would never know how or what you felt reading this)