The Void

At some point in life, we feel so dismantled and out of place that it's almost like we have entered into some void. It is as if someone has let loose of the noose that they had earlier held so tightly. We don't know which path to tread? We don't know whether this path would lead us where we want? We don't even know where do we exactly want to reach? We get up, eat, go to work or search for one, come back, eat, sleep and repeat. These years of 'struggle' can either make us or break us. Some of us may pull through while others may get shattered along the way. However we may be either brawny or  scrawny, with our loved ones or without them, either searching for work or working towards it, either happy or sad, we are NEVER content with where we are. If we are searching for work people don't just let us 'be', if we are working we might ourselves want to end up in a sabbatical. What's with us? What do we want?
This introspection needs to come now or sooner. It kills me while I read youngster's taking grave steps just because their circumstances were overpowering them and not conducive. Just because they had no one to speak with, just because they were having a really bad day, just because they broke up. Agreed, that we are born with a need to achieve, exert power and affiliate. But if any of these are amiss, we loose our equilibrium immediately. Situations then get the better of us. And the only thing that is so striking is how there has been this sudden shift in our priorities based on these needs. From how earlier, people had a stringent 'need to affiliate' while now there is this immense inclination towards 'power and achievement'. Being goal oriented is great but then ambitiousness is altogether different. I am not sure if we are aware of the thin line between the two. Even if we are the boundaries are becoming too hazy day by day. I am afraid they might just disappear. And it's not that there is a problem with why people are shifting priorities? I am no moral police in here! But it is definitely alarming how inhumane people are turning with this shift. They have no time to connect 'socially' although 'virtually', yes. Social media has become so overpowering that we hardly know what mood our fellow family member is in while we do know what status our colleague just posted. Money minting has become so jarring that we have almost forgotten we have a life outside it too. There are people we need to look after. People who have given us there valuable time. We migrate, we shift our bases altogether, we work like crazy, earn billions and what not. But what for? Those imaginary years that we are waiting for to spend it with the one's we care for may never even come. It is only NOW that we are in. Tomorrow holds no guarantee. Live in your 'NOW' and live it to the fullest, being sure of no regrets. The recent stats of lunacy have whooshed up like crazy. And it should ring a bell or it will be too late. Do not wait until it strikes you and then you end up doing something about it. Be receptive,be mindful and be aware of how people around you are, of whether they need to be listened to or talked about or if they are having a hard time or something to celebrate about. These are simple things in life that are not at all difficult nor time consuming, so just make sure you live every 'moment' that is happening NOW. And remember that the best things in life are never 'things'!