Chaudhury Satya Das, Editor, Education & Awareness
Some of us complain that life is dull, bored and frustrated. Others say that life is a bed of roses. Hence, life, whether it is interesting or dull, depends a largely on us. If we want our life to be interesting it depends on what kind of person we are. When we are able to enjoy our own company, we are less dependent on other people. We are no longer scarred of being left on our own to amuse our selves. It also helps us to be more relaxed in our relations with people; less prone to become tired, impatient and irritable.
Our interest should be our share with other people. It may be a sports or a cultural meet. As long as these encourage us to be among people, we forget to be self conscious. It is then much easier to make friends. We should not worry about what others think about our interest. Never mind other people and what they imagine we should like. It is our life. We must decide for ourselves.
We make our life interesting when we are always learning. Some of us stop learning when leave school or college. Our learning should be an unending activity in life to enrich our mind and intellect. In order to be interesting to other people as well as find interest in life for ourselves, we have to be outward-looking. We have to be interested in other people and things outside our selves. We have to ask questions, read, look, listen and mind being shown and being told by other learned persons.
Life is more interesting when we like what we are doing, without worrying about the results. If we do not care who gets the credit, we will not be a part of the never ending rat race in life. We must be relaxed and do things with great care and cooperation. Automatically, others will be co-operative with us, show us the right way and let us to join them.
We all want to make our life interesting. See to it that we do not get into a rut. One of the best things about holidays is that they provide opportunities to break with routine or give time to try something new and different. Do not allow routine to rule us. When it is possible, have a char and do things differently. But we break our rules occasionally to change things around. Eat in different places. Try different food. Visit different places where we will meet with different people of different walks of life.
Above all, we should not be extra careful. We do this when we refuse to accept charge, refuse to contract with anything which is different from what we like. It is easy to cut our selves off from people and new developments. Life is a challenge. To make it interesting we have to face it as a whole, not just to those aspects which please us. We can make life more interesting by being interested in people and trying to be kind to them.
Hence, we should not be bored by looking around us. We should not close our eyes and heart to the needs of others. In this lies a great opportunity for us to feel wanted and needed. Those who are wanted can find life always interesting.