What am I doing with my Life! –PART 1

There are so many times in life when you get that Feeling –low sensation for no specific reason. You will wake up one morning and think what are you doing with your life. You browse through the newspapers see that Obama is making a second Asian trip , Nandan Nilekani is the Head of UID project, People are vouching for Rahul Gandhi to be the next prime minister etc etc. You feel worse ,your emptiness deepens. You think Why am I not there? Am I going in the right track ? Will I ever be remembered? But most importantly -Will I figure out what I want to do in life? …..and countless other questions. You go haywire, make telephone calls to people whom you call friends , loved ones. When they ask you “what has happened ?” .You say “I Dunno” . You talk to your dog (If you have one) in that sad tone and tell him how less taxing his life is and he doesn’t have to worry about anything in life. You sulk over the dosa your mum prepared .In simple words you get Irritated for Nothing . I am sure most of you have gone through these symptoms at some point in our lives .And have no clue how this feeling possesses us .
There is no name given to this disease surprisingly .
So what do I call it?
Just for now let’s name it FLM (Feeling Low Moment).

How do you overcome it?
Hmm there is no specific cure as such as it works different for different people.
I am a regular victim of this disease , I experience it every other day.
Initially I would go berserk and make the people around go berserk too.But slowly I am beginning to understand the good effects of it .It forces you to think about yourself which I feel most of us don’t do. We get so caught in the monotony of life that we get carried away with it like flowing water. We are comfortable doing that one thing which probably has been followed for generations and refuse to set apart from the crowd.
We are scared of failures and the humiliation which we may face in case things don’t work. But what we fail to understand is that the ultimate joy is doing what you like .
And I realized that if you follow what your heart truly feels you will have lesser bouts of FLM.
It will reduces substantially.

But what if you still have it……
You can probably help me write part 2. ;)
We can figure it out together.

Regards
Neetha Acharya