As usual today also I turned off my alarm assuming it as yet another week day.
And very lately I realised when I reached VT (Victoria Terminal) that am not on my bed and itz Indian Railway’s Sleeper class upper birth!! Thanks to my co-passenger who woke me up saying Dost last top aagaya.
Due to my sound sleeping habits instead of getting down at Thane I landed on VT at Sunday 5am!
And to my dismay there wasn’t any immediate local to return to Thane
So had ample amount of time to spend at VT, within my 5mins of waiting I got bored to the core.
I decided to enroot to marine lines instead of waiting for local train, it is one of my fav place in Mumbai and I never had an opportunity to be there before sunrise (thanks to my brilliant sleeping habits).
Hired a taxi and kicked off my journey, seems I was pretty much hooked with boredom, realised sitting all alone in taxi too so boring, having said that there are many interesting things can be done in taxi provided u have a good company ;)
Just to kill my boredom I asked Taxiwala to turn on the music and must say these Mumbai taxiwalas have good sense of music, Kishore da was singing aanewala pal jaane wala hai ho sake to isme zindagi bitaloo, the last two words caught my attention and I started my dissection on zindagi bitaloo.
I was wondering what actually zindagi bitaloo means. At physical level it could be merely breathing in n breathing out, so looking at mental level what does it really mean?
Was drilling through my knowledge accumulated from past 2.5 decades and finally came up with an answer for zindagi bitaloo and to my surprise the answer was giving thought or paying attention to, let me clear that its my understanding of zindagi bitaloo and it is not in synch with the lyrics here.
I think its little complex to explain. The reason why I linked attention with life is whatever object you pay attention in that particular moment that object will come to an existence only in that moment, for example if your thinking about your Ex gf/bf in that particular moment then everything associated with her will come into existence for that moment and instead if I choose to think of my boss in that given moment my boss will come to an existence with respect to that moment.
Notice that you can choose to give your attention to whatever you wish. You can choose to pay attention to your work, girl friend or your income.
Well, with this dissection I realised that attention is a precious commodity of our life, its an investment we make out of our life. So use it carefully and consciously.
M$K
