We come across many views which claim to be the best for everyone. There are people who emphasize that achieving greater success in career is the most important thing one can do in this life. On the other hand, another group of people give more importance to leisure and easy life. Number of those who say family is more important than everything is also no less. With different kinds of opinions floating across, what is your perspective towards life?
How do you see life? What do you want to achieve from this life? How would you like to spend the remaining years of your life? For a moment, put aside your compulsions of family responsibility and social constraints. Then think of what you would like your life to be. How you would want your life to be. That’s your own outlook towards life without coming under anyone’s opinion or influence. No need to be socially or morally correct while deciding your expectations from life. This unfiltered thought process may give you the true view towards your life which mostly remains colored by the opinions of others, and compulsions of family or society.
For one time such perspective seeking exercise should be done by everyone to know their real liking in the life. That would help to adjust the direction and speed in which one is running. This true perspective will perhaps help you to collect enough courage for modifying your journey that you have been undertaking so far. It may not completely change what you are doing or what you have been doing. There is also no need to regret what you have done so far even if it is yet 180° opposite to what you would like to do henceforth. Without such regret or judgment on your past or current life, try to see if in future you can accommodate the new vista you have gained by this exercise. See if your coming years can be more aligned with the life you want to live.
This is important because at the death bed, when you know the number of breaths left are few, you don’t want to regret, looking back at how you have lived, and feel that you never lived for yourself. This life is yours and you are here to live it as per your own wishes and desires. However, as we live in family and society, we remain affected and influenced by their views – which many times are distant from your personal perspective towards the life. This small exercise will help you to bridge this gap and reduce the distance between societal or family compulsion and your own desire out of life.