“This is the true joy in life:
being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one;
being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
~ George Bernard Shaw on living a life that burns bright:
Oh, I’m re-learning to live a more deliberate bijay life.
I’ve decided to put off chess board that had been sucking up my private hours and minutes.
Social media detox. Digital sabbatical. Digital decluttering or minimalism. Purposeful Unplugging, whatever you name it …
I’ve done this many times before. Shamelessly, I’m picking up the gig again.
Just to be clear, I’m not running away from anything here, and perhaps the right way to look at this would be to say — Matter-of-fact, I’m doing quite the opposite. I’m on purpose running towards something.
Time will reveal why for every what!
p.s. Shoutout to my girl who despite my absense verily takes care of ‘the.life.of.bijay.s’.
In the meantime, ‘oh.randomess‘ was born this week. Amalgamation of ‘random’ plus ‘mess’ — that’s how it got the name.
This baby shall grow with time as I let go more and more random beautiful mess from my lifeline (captured mostly with my camera lenses).
I still don’t know why I like creating stuff!
p.p.s. Video contents I went back to this week, again — to exercise my wisdom muscles (which you might as well find as an absolute cracker) are:
1, Quit Socail Media by Cal Newport
2. How to achieve your most ambitious goal by Stephen Duneier
3, Inside the mind of a master procrastinator by Tim Urban
Namaste.