Life sets up a certain momentum. This is often innocuous and unseen. You finish your education, you meet a girl or boy, get married (or not), get deeper into your career, get closer to your passion, begin to earn money and wealth, start increasing your circle of power, perhaps have children, get involved with their education, upbringing etc. and you are up and away.
And then suddenly (not immediately) its not you who are guiding your life, but the process of life itself that has taken over. Activities, thoughts, counter activities, social pressures, personal pressure etc. start ruling the day. Its akin to putting a plane into auto pilot mode. You have become the “doer”, simply doing things one after the other – incessantly – from personal, to career, to official, to community, to global. You are busily conducting your earthly affairs one after the other or even simultaneously; and suddenly, without any conscious knowledge, this “doer ship” begins to consume you. It consumes you to the extent, where you cannot “relax”, where you cannot take a moment to enjoy the birds that sing, the sun that shines or even the air you breath. Simple things that keep us happy and alive, are missed under the garb of “doer ship”. Our activities begin clouding, the real reason we were born – to be awake to each present moment of our life.
In fact, modern day busyness makes you feel guilty, if you take a break or take a breath or even take a nap. One feels guilty to just… “relax”. In fact feeling guilty when one relaxes, is a sure sign that doer ship may have started consuming you. Things, activities and social pressures may have become your master, and the supremacy of your heart may be receding.
The only way out of this trap is to understand that there is a deeper and higher system of organisation that functions in the universe – in spite of you. That the universe takes as much responsibility for things, as you do (or not). That this deeper framework, works together with you, your thoughts, perceptions and feelings (and often reflects those back to you). When you align with this higher universe, you can relax, without any guilt. The universe did not intend for all of humanity to be busy 24 hours a day, in things that would not even matter truly. It intended for us to celebrate our own aliveness, through understanding our birth and the universe.
So over the next few days, try simply relaxing and if a guilt pang comes in, just remember, relaxing is part of the plan for you. Enjoy, chill and have a break.
Dennis Taraporewala 
Reading this at the end of a day off… that I gifted myself and my team…watching the bamboos sway at my window and the rain finally arrive.. my beautiful dog keeping me company. Returning to the heart that has been waiting for my attention. Your blog post reconfirms all of this. Thank you Dennis.
LikeLike
Very true. We have forgotten to relax, which we were doing earlier in our lives. e.g. sleeping for 2-3 hours on Sunday noon. It had started giving a guilt about wasting of this time.
Now, will try same old relaxing things to re-gain our five senses. Thanks Dennis !!!
LikeLike
What a beautiful wall post! How true what you have said that in our everyday rigors of life, we have forgotten to appreciate the simple pleasures of life like setting of the sun or watch a bud turn into a flower. To do that we need to find our quiet minds.
LikeLike