We all have some idea of our purpose and where we want to be in our life, even if it’s only short term goals, rather than some grand life plan and it is important to understand how they affect and influence our priorities during different stages of our life. Making our life more interesting and worth living depends a lot on how we prioritize things. Most of us feel a sense of emptiness when we sit back and think on how we have walked past different stages of life with the attitude of mere survival and not really prioritizing our priorities. Our only goal in our life wud be to gain good education, acquire a good job which in turn gives a financial security and stability and get into a long term committed relationship with a person whom we term as life partner. Is that all what life has to be? Well, there is much beyond all these.
Many lives will touch our hearts in the journey of our life. There are people who make an impact on us in numerous ways that help us learn a lot. Most of the times we carry the learnings forward but leave the people behind who helped us learn those. It starts with people having a great importance and transforms to only experiences with them turning to be important and not the people themselves. That’s what we say priorities change with time. Right from kindergarten until we get old, our priorities keep changing. If we take a deeper look into what actually governs the change in priorities, we wud see a pattern.
There are a lot of things than can change your priorities. In fact, usually the BIG things that come along make everything else seem so insignificant or significant that it's often hard to believe we ever allowed those little things to be on our priority list in the first place. Two BIG things that actually rearrange ur priorities are joy and grief. When life gives u ultimate happiness, the things that were important only hours before may now seem completely ridiculous. Sometimes those things even get completely erased from ur memory. People who once played an important part of ur life no longer hold the same position. The wave of changes sweeps u off to a shore of happiness with a new set of people that u really don’t see whats happening with the other people now, with whom u have shared pleasant times in the past. When u are overcome with grief and sorrow is when u think back to see how ur priorities had changed in the past. Things that u dint consider it worth spending ur time in the past now seem to be the most important ones. Things that matter to u most now were never thought about in the past. The big things that brought happiness to you now seem too far. The basics are suddenly on top of the priority list. And the only thought that lies in ur mind is how to get through the pain. This is the time when u have to remember that there will be light at the end of the path that is dark now with a light that will carry you through this rough time. Don't worry if the tears won't stop falling. Even tears have a reason. There surely will be a time when you will be so involved in living again that you will one day realize that the tears have stopped and life has been marching right along without you even realizing it.
As we move through life and get acquainted with different people around us, we are aware that many of us feel something is lacking in our lives, and yet we are uncertain what that is. Our lives have become full of tasks to do, responsibilities to shoulder, promises to keep. And a cacophony of information is thrown at us. It's hard to get clear on our own priorities. It's harder still to hear our own inner voice amidst the turmoil. But still its our life, one precious life. We cud still make it interesting and valuable by setting our priorities right at the right time.
Many lives will touch our hearts in the journey of our life. There are people who make an impact on us in numerous ways that help us learn a lot. Most of the times we carry the learnings forward but leave the people behind who helped us learn those. It starts with people having a great importance and transforms to only experiences with them turning to be important and not the people themselves. That’s what we say priorities change with time. Right from kindergarten until we get old, our priorities keep changing. If we take a deeper look into what actually governs the change in priorities, we wud see a pattern.
There are a lot of things than can change your priorities. In fact, usually the BIG things that come along make everything else seem so insignificant or significant that it's often hard to believe we ever allowed those little things to be on our priority list in the first place. Two BIG things that actually rearrange ur priorities are joy and grief. When life gives u ultimate happiness, the things that were important only hours before may now seem completely ridiculous. Sometimes those things even get completely erased from ur memory. People who once played an important part of ur life no longer hold the same position. The wave of changes sweeps u off to a shore of happiness with a new set of people that u really don’t see whats happening with the other people now, with whom u have shared pleasant times in the past. When u are overcome with grief and sorrow is when u think back to see how ur priorities had changed in the past. Things that u dint consider it worth spending ur time in the past now seem to be the most important ones. Things that matter to u most now were never thought about in the past. The big things that brought happiness to you now seem too far. The basics are suddenly on top of the priority list. And the only thought that lies in ur mind is how to get through the pain. This is the time when u have to remember that there will be light at the end of the path that is dark now with a light that will carry you through this rough time. Don't worry if the tears won't stop falling. Even tears have a reason. There surely will be a time when you will be so involved in living again that you will one day realize that the tears have stopped and life has been marching right along without you even realizing it.
As we move through life and get acquainted with different people around us, we are aware that many of us feel something is lacking in our lives, and yet we are uncertain what that is. Our lives have become full of tasks to do, responsibilities to shoulder, promises to keep. And a cacophony of information is thrown at us. It's hard to get clear on our own priorities. It's harder still to hear our own inner voice amidst the turmoil. But still its our life, one precious life. We cud still make it interesting and valuable by setting our priorities right at the right time.
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