An Unwanted Gift

With the Mayan calendar dooming us by the end of this week, many of us have been debating as to how we would want to spend our last moments on this planet. Alive, and not being a potato, I believe. Which is where the beautiful and often stretched session of Q & A begins. It enables everyone to reveal what they really want to do and how they would like things to fall into place... The FAQ's that follow would maybe go something like this:

Who would you like to be with when it all ends?
What is it you wish you could do before the Apocalypse?
Where would you want to be?
Is there something you would want everyone to know?
Would you want to survive the Armageddon?

Such is the nature of these questions, one can't help but delve deep into the sea of "What could have been(s)". it gives everyone the opportunity to sit back and go into a sweet trance. We all, generally begin with re-writing our past, enforcing those changes we so wanted to happen, using those thus happened revolutions in our hence changed life and then imagining the much transformed future.
Obviously, however fast our brains might go into the "Perfect World" mode, this task is sure to consume a lot of time. Which, according to our historian sources, is something we are running out of as we correspond. But then, the magnetic pull of our deepest wishes thrusts us down, grounding us into our comfort zones and hoping we never have to leave. And as is our most widespread bad habit, we fail to see the time swiftly passing by, taking with it the various opportunities to actually make one of those fantasies come true. Not the best way to spend your last precious few days, I think.

Agreed, that there might not be a Universal Ideal way to run through one's remaining time, but there certainly are loads of things one Shouldn't be wasting time on. And I can be very sure when I say this, no one needs telling what they waste time on. They, of all people, know themselves best when they are doing it.
'Coz when we get into the groove of doing something just for the simple reason that we're "bored" and "have nothing to do"; for about 90% of all of us, it automatically puts the next thing we do under the bracket of "time-wasting" or "time-pass".
And so, if there's no ideal way to go around the apparent last week, why did you just spend the last few minutes of your precious time on this woefully no-point correspondence? Because, as usual, I have a suggestion.

We all want different things from life. Both big dreams in the long run & the small, tiny and short term goals in the near future. But how many times do we really take into consideration all those things we are supposed to be doing for those said dreams and wishes? How many times do we go back and check our check-lists and see that "Okay, now I should get started with this so that I reach there with time remaining for that". Or if not dreams, what about all those things that came up into your mind when you saw something you didn't like; or that promise you made yourself to finally break your laziness and for once get up early and do the chores?
If everytime we get the feeling of being bored and idle, we go back in our heads and seriously remind ourselves of all the big commitments we made to make wholesale changes and achieve our goals, we will see how much is left to be done.There will be such a huge host of things with an unchecked box infront of them, it will baffle us to our very cores.
This, however, does not mean that we start to think of all the things we cannot achieve due to lack of time. Its only a pointer to us that if indeed these are the last few days of our life, do we have more regrets than satisfactions? Do we get a huge jolt thinking about all those undone tasks that could've happened had we not being lying around, with laziness and lack of courage getting the better of us?

And if we do, I believe there's still plenty of time to make things right. For this sudden urgency we implement in our lives must be used very accurately. Priorities, I think, are of the essence. And the most basic flowchart in any priority based situation would go like this:

1. Sort out your Priorities. NOW.

2.Always start with something small. Not necessarily in terms of importance, but something you believe is doable and has just been postponed for too long. As you complete these small tasks, it will give you immense confidence to complete the "Big deals" on this list.

3.There's Always a First Time. Make it your motto when you set out to complete this list.

4.Forget about the Consequences.
Just do it. Its sounds way easier than doing it, I know. Believe me, I've experienced it. You will be scared out of your wits moments before you complete the task. And that should be your cue to understand that you've completed the hard part, and all that remains is the last push. You will experience a heavenly lightness after it, I guarantee.

5. You're done.
Once you've undergone the feeling of the lightness mentioned above, you'll want it with every situation that bothers you. There's no need to re-read the flowchart, as by now you've made it a part of how you roll. After all, (and overlooking the biological part of this) when you breathed the first time-and you liked it-It became an instant habit. Something without which you cannot survive.

And with that, I believe, & I'm sure you'll agree: The supposed end of the world may just serve to be one of the best things that's ever about to happen.