LIFE IS STRANGE - BUT THAT'S LIFE!!!

Life is a little strange!! The way it treats us is worth noticing...

When we are young (children), we enjoy the environment we are into. We enjoy..
Playing with our friends even when we don't know what friendship means
Getting cared by our parents and elders, though we don't realize its significance at that point in time and don't value that
Everything around us...

As we grow, we don't get all those things just because we start feeling that we are grown ups, we don't need parent's caring... we start treating them in a way that they had to stop running around us, getting involved in everything we do, etc... We start giving importance to our friends, caring less for our parents, getting slowly disconnected, loosing that childhood bond with them without even noticing that... Friends are everything for us..

As we grow up more, we get our ideal match (we believe)... Friends go a little down in priority list, though very important, but not the most important in our life... We get out of college, start working, get into making our career... Don't get enough time for friends to catch up with them as frequently as we were used to... But we don't realize that, and keep thinking that they are friends, so that's fine...

We go into marriage, struggle between giving enough time to our career and family (wife, no parents).. so we choose spending time with family whenever we get a chance... still keep meeting friends once in a while... but we know they are down in your priority list... We have kids, we start payin attention to them full time... the frequency of meeting with friends has gone down like anything...

This is the time we realize that our parents are very important for us, you start putting extra effort to do things for them... this does not mean we didn't want to do those things before... or we never felt to do those things... but we took them for granted and we did not have time.. We realize that we are not very close to our parents, not as much as we were before.... but time has gone... we can start making that bond again, but it takes time... and might not be as strong as it was before... We also realize that inspite of having everything we wanted (a good wife/family, good career, good house/car, money to go around the world and do all the things), we feel something is missing in our life... We know we must have our friends with us to share those happiness, achievements... we start trying to connect to all the old friends again.. we are in touch with them, talk to them once in a while.. but don't get a chance to meet them frequently... we try and get connected to them in a better way.. but..., you know what, he/she is also tied up in similar situation, and may be at a different stage in life, so dear friend the bond may not be the way it used to be before... when there was no need, and the bond was natural...

So when we look back at life, we see.. we try to get things we want in life at a specific point in time, but we sacrifice those precious things we already have at that time... without realizing the importance of those invaluable things... why do we do that??? Because, as usual, we fail to understand the significance of what we do have.. and run after what we don't have...

THAT IS LIFE !!!

I think we should try to be content with whatever we do have at any point in time, always keep thinking of what important things we have.. Relations are the most important thing in life!! We don't realize, but we live for people around us... and we also need people around us to live... any achievement does not make us happy if we don't have our near and dear ones to share them with..

Get connected to all the people you liked/loved in the past... they are precious... start it today... and do it selflessly... be genuine... put your efforts, it may not work out everytime with everyone, but definitely it is worth trying..