My 'cheese' has been moved!

While reading a book called 'Who Moved My Cheese' by Dr.Spencer Johnson i came through a wonderful message told in a very simple yet interesting manner. I would like to share it in here:-

Change happens, they keep moving the cheese.

Anticipate change, get ready for the cheese to move.

Monitor change, smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.

Adapt to change quikely, the quicker you let go of the old cheese the sooner you can enjoy new cheese.

Change, move with the cheese.

Enjoy change, savor the adventure & enjoy the taste of new cheese.

Be ready to change quickly & enjoy it again, they keep moving the cheese.

Here cheese is metaphor for what we want to have in our lives, whether job, love, possession, health or spiritual growth. And the maze represents area where we are looking for what we want, organisation, family or community.

So the fact of the matter is that we are so much afraid of 'change' though it is such a natural phenomena. We do see it happening around us everyday yet we live in a state of denial. We have a tendency to get complacent. As soon as we get our 'cheese' we start believing that will be there forever. This craving of holding on to things forever doesn't allow us to enjoy what we have. We apply all our energy to hold on to it. And soon after when our 'cheese' is moved we are devastated. We start complaining, grumbling & get frustrated about the whole thing. So this book actually gives us an incredible way to deal with such situations when our 'cheese' is moved. Also it provides us simple methods by appling which we can prepare ourselves for further changes, in advance.

Things are difficult as long as we don't accept them as they are, once we accept them it becomes easier to move through them.

There is a saying i read in Geeta Saar -

"जो आज तेरा है वो कल किसी और का था और कल किसी और का होगा;तू इसे अपना समझ कर प्रसन्न हो रहा है; ये प्रसन्नता ही तेरे दुखो का कारन है"

EMBRACE CHANGE WHOLE HEARTEDLY & MOVE ON :-)

I am not busy

Standing on a bridge when i looked down all i could see is vehicles, rushing towards one direction or the other. It seemed as if they were running after something, trying to leave each other behind. I wonder if this is what we call 'rat race'?
Well i don't know much about it & always failed to understand, why people are so busy? Rather what are they busy in? I have tried to seek answer but hardly anyone could define purpose behind this race. Not satisfied with those answers, all i could get is that everybody wants to win this race not realising that when we are busy in this so called rat race what all we are missing.
While struggling to beat each other we forget to enjoy what we are doing. Whether it is studies or the work we do. We do most of the things just for the sake of doing, not knowing any purpose, not caring any effect. We just want to beat others to win the race. By the time we think we have won its actually we have lost so many things on our way unadvertently, parent's birthdays, child's birth, anniversary, list can go on. To all this we have same excuse 'no time, i am busy'. Frankly it sounds funny to me, what are we gaining by losing all those precious moments we could/should have been there with our loved ones. Whats the point in being so busy when we can't even do what we enjoy doing or enjoy doing what we do?
Whats the point in being so busy that we don't even have time to live our lives with our loved one's?
Time is precious no doubt but it is always there, we all are in time. We don't have to race against it instead just being with it is enough. Being more aware of what we doing right now, prioritising our needs not wants. There is a huge difference in our wants & needs. Our wants can be endless but our needs are limited.