Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Living is an Art
-By Priyanka Gupta
Did anybody ever tell you, “Living is an Art”? Did you wonder what s/he actually means? Lets try to find out the art of living, if at all there is one.
First of all lets understand the etymology of the terms ‘Living’ and ‘Art’?? … ‘Living’ is a defining trait of aliveness in human beings; ‘art’ is a skill. Ergo living is natural to us. Then how did something as natural as ‘living’ needs ‘skills’?
Animals do not need any art for living but we--human beings, rational animals-- do need it. The sole reason for this is, we can distinguish good from bad and bad from good. We love our own selves more than any other creatures on this planet do.
God has gifted us life but the same Almighty has given joy and sorrow for our lives. Human life desires only pleasure till their existence. Whenever the contentment, happiness and delight for life is missed, we get aggravated and wish to change every other thing present on this earth.
We often wonder why happy time never lasts long. Rarely we feel elevated, satisfied from our lives.
These are the times when we ask ourselves--Is this a kind of life God has made me for?
There begins the search for happiness and good living within us. The very next question that arises within the human soul is - Where shall I look for the possible solution? Who is going to salt away my troubles?
This might work as a feasible uphold. Focus and remember the last time when you were sad and frustrated out of your life. You were totally pissed off then. Try reaching the world then. It was tough!
Nevertheless you lived afresh. You learnt that art but for very short period, letting the problem come again and bother you in life.
To kill sorrows, fears, insecurities in life one needs to develop friendship with ones own self. Acquitting oneself from the prison of predefined dogmas and exploring the actual desire for one’s real ‘self’ is the only way to attain the highest goal of human life--“ happiness for you and happiness for all”
Cheer. The art of living is within us, we just need to realize it and see it closely.:))
Did anybody ever tell you, “Living is an Art”? Did you wonder what s/he actually means? Lets try to find out the art of living, if at all there is one.
First of all lets understand the etymology of the terms ‘Living’ and ‘Art’?? … ‘Living’ is a defining trait of aliveness in human beings; ‘art’ is a skill. Ergo living is natural to us. Then how did something as natural as ‘living’ needs ‘skills’?
Animals do not need any art for living but we--human beings, rational animals-- do need it. The sole reason for this is, we can distinguish good from bad and bad from good. We love our own selves more than any other creatures on this planet do.
God has gifted us life but the same Almighty has given joy and sorrow for our lives. Human life desires only pleasure till their existence. Whenever the contentment, happiness and delight for life is missed, we get aggravated and wish to change every other thing present on this earth.
We often wonder why happy time never lasts long. Rarely we feel elevated, satisfied from our lives.
These are the times when we ask ourselves--Is this a kind of life God has made me for?
There begins the search for happiness and good living within us. The very next question that arises within the human soul is - Where shall I look for the possible solution? Who is going to salt away my troubles?
This might work as a feasible uphold. Focus and remember the last time when you were sad and frustrated out of your life. You were totally pissed off then. Try reaching the world then. It was tough!
Nevertheless you lived afresh. You learnt that art but for very short period, letting the problem come again and bother you in life.
To kill sorrows, fears, insecurities in life one needs to develop friendship with ones own self. Acquitting oneself from the prison of predefined dogmas and exploring the actual desire for one’s real ‘self’ is the only way to attain the highest goal of human life--“ happiness for you and happiness for all”
Cheer. The art of living is within us, we just need to realize it and see it closely.:))
