Do something with your life!

I have a theory. Let’s call it the theory of my life. Theories of lives, by the way, are like chicken pox. You can only get it once…and you can only make one ‘theory of your life’. If someone insists to know if there is something that I strongly believe in, I’ll give them the theory of my life.

The core statement of my theory is – ‘Do something with your life’.

See, everyone goes to school, then college, gets a job, screws around for a while, gets married, settles down, has children, watches them go to school, then college and so on. It only depends on his lifeline then if he sticks around to watch his kids screw around, get married and produce tiny beings that look like them. All of this does not take any effort. This keeps happening like a cycle. Even if you decide not to move a finger, people around will push you and put you through all of this.

But at the end of life, when you can see the people digging up the pit for your coffin to go in while you lie swathed in the undertaker’s homemade perfume, wouldn’t you for even one second ponder what you did in your entire life that sets you apart from all the buggers lying in the nearby graves?
What good would you have done in your entire life? Would people remember you for anything other than vile words, actions? What difference would you have made to the world between the time you were born and the time you croak? Taking a tangent and borrowing a phrase…if you cannot clean a place, at least don’t leave it dirtier. If you did nothing to give back or pay forward all the favours that you are showered with…all you did in your life span was to leave a huge carbon footprint!

My point is, everyone goes through that cycle called life. Default. To complain that this cycle tires you out and leaves no time to do anything else is just lame. The fact remains that you just will not make an effort to do anyone any good because if you really want to make time for something that you believe needs to be done – you will.

What’s there to be done anyway? Look around you. What do you think needs to be changed? The system? Right, one person cannot do it. Talk to people, find out what they think about it. May be they’ll laugh, because people like stand-up comedy and are scared of whistleblowers. But the important part there is that you have waken up and are making an effort to wake others up as well.

What else? The forests and animal reserves need help. Various conservation groups need volunteers.
Street dogs need aid. Ragged children need assistance. Open your eyes and look and there are a million things you could do.

The Nature Baba campaign is something that I am proud of. It is something I’ll beam about when I talk about it to kids the same age as my grandchildren (Yeah, I’m going to live longer and try more to make this place more than just habitable!). I am glad I’m making efforts to talk to people around in my tiny town about the drastic change in climate lately and what we could all do to make our world more beautiful.

I’m sure I’ll cherish my photo album titled ‘My trip to Planet Earth’ published by Heaven Inc.