Living or Rushing?

Hey Friends, I had a quick thought when I read one big mail among many of the forwarded mails, which I received today... I usually ignore such BIG mails, once i find it boring or useless after reading the first 3-4 lines of it... But this mail though being a big mail, made me sit and read completely today - during my 4th day break time of my ITIL training session. I feel really happy about reading this mail during the break time itself. It gave me a chance to rethink on my life style and I hope may be some of you, like me would also find it helpful.

Author talks about the need of quality living over fast living... He uses some simple examples which might make us stop reading for a while and put us in a thinking mode... For example, He says about the FAST FOOD era here, which in real life shows how fast we people are trying to live… The real enjoyment in eating comes when we enjoy our food... i.e. when we take our time to taste the food that we eat… So what are we expecting from something called fast food??? Instead in this era people are rushing and rushing... And while rushing, I feel that we people usually forget to live our CURRENT LIFE... Why are we rushing?? Why we always want to finish everything in a hurry?? There is no answer… Why do we expect an immediate result in everything we do? Confused?? To help us to get an answer, the author talks about the point of slow living...

He talks about the life style of people in Sweden. Globalized processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to possess a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.

According to the author, this no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It means reestablishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the "now", present and concrete, versus the "global", undefined and anonymous. It means taking humans' essential values, the simplicity of living. According to him, this stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do. It's time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence of spirit.

I totally agree with the author on this point. What is the use of working 8 hours a day with a frustrated or tensed mind?? Neither the work will be done nor the person going to have a peace of mind. I would rather go with working 2-3 hours, with a happy and a dedicated mind. In fact the productivity will be better in this case than the former scenario. It is the same case in everything that we do in life. I strongly feel that we should first live our life than getting anxious about the future living. Because the anxiety never ends as long as there is future and once the future is o more, there ends our so called life. He has quoted a film dialogue which goes like this “The life is lived in an instant”, which in fact is true, because no one is guaranteed on his future.

We all have time to live in this world, but what really matters in the end is how long we LIVED than preparing for the future living. So friends, one question to you people… Are you LIVING your life or still rushing? Give it a thought… Time for me to rejoin the ITIL class, Thanks to that anonymous author for giving such a beautiful thought for me… I would be happier, if this small piece of thought could make some of you to do a rethinking on making their life a LIVING than RUSHING.
Cya…