We are taught to live from the time we’re born. Just live.

We can’t remember our own childhood, but look at any infant and observe the way an infant’s life is being moulded each moment.

The fundamental of our learning is to JUST live.
Just walk. Just eat and poop. Just sleep and so on.

And once the infant starts to use cognitive abilities, the fundamentals are buried almost immediately.

A baby literally lives by the moment. We fail to understand that.
It’s called lack of span of attention. There’s an analysis to every situation.
We can’t not think of anything without categorizing any given situation or behaviour.
If a category does not exist, we create. But categorize, we must.

We cloud ourselves with our intelligence. We look at the world from behind this stained glass.
Other’s intelligence or ignorance is viewed through our intelligence.

Imagine in a situation like this, we are also now breeding impatience.
Waiting for anything is almost short of being considered a crime.
If it’s not instant, it’s insane.

Curiosity, anxiety and related feelings are attached to ‘clinical depression’.
Then there are debates and discussions around these topics.
Farsightedness is almost non-existent. Every decision (if taken) is short-sighted.
There are endless discussions and a false sense of hurry to respond almost instantaneously. Giving it a thought, some time to digest is all alien.

I just wonder how we slipped so effortlessly into a situation like this in just a matter of a decade and a half.

My childhood and teenage memories are filled with times with friends and family where we just spent time lying on the grass, on the beach or in someone’s house day-dreaming – mostly doing nothing.
Those memories are cherished and bring a smile on my face. But it’s been a while having done any of that.

We really need to learn to breathe. Pause, breathe again. Keep breathing and stop running-amok.

Just LIVE!