Yesterday night, I reached my room at around 1am…totally
exhausted and too tired to even cycle the whole way to the hostel and using
music to keep myself up and about. But just as I reached my room, one of my
favourite dance numbers came on, and I ended up dancing to not one but 4 songs
back to back. BY the end of it all, lots of my joints were aching, I knew I
would definitely have a tough time getting any work done the next day….and yet
I was completely and totally blissful. For those twenty minutes I was a perfect
version of myself, I didn’t have a single negative thought in mind (getting
thoughts out of my head is almost an impossible task…..like getting Geet from
Jab we met to stop talking!!!). It was
just me and the music and in that moment it was perfect!!
I have tried for a long time now to infuse this kind of
enthusiasm for dance in the people around me. Trying desperately to get them to
see the kind of joy they were missing out on by not giving themselves to dance.
Then yesterday I realized, that I couldn’t possibly hope to succeed because
this point of view is not something that is logic bound, it is just something
that is inherent in me and so it works for me. And in the meantime, there are
probably many equivalent things out there which others may like but I just don’t
get!!
So here’s my proposition. I would like to know, what is it
that makes you happy. I’m not asking what yo or others might think you are good
at, I don’t care if you are pathetic at that activity, all I am concerned about
is how happy it makes you feel. It could be anything ranging from reading,
writing, running, staring out into space, sleeping or even doing nothing!! If
it connects with something deep inside you, makes you feel alive, makes you feel
happy, then I would like to know! You might wonder what I might gain from this.
Even though I am just asking you to talk about an activity, in essence I am
asking you to tell me about something that is very close to your heart. And
through this, I’d like to gain some insight….find a new perspective at looking
at the things around me, maybe even come to love it like you do. But most importantly
it’ll allow me to get to know you a little bit better. This blog has been that
for me, a process in learning things that matter to me the most, maybe putting
it into words might help do the same for you!
So here’s what you do, either comment on this blog post or
email to me (reply to all is also an option if you so wish) telling me up to 3
things that love doing the most and what makes you love it so much. And
secondly I would like to know what long term goal (if any) you might have
related to them…. might be learning something new about them, taking a course
or even teaching it, or just making sure you continue to keep in touch with it
as the years pass by. I know I am asking a significant amount of your time
(hence the weekend mail!!) and there is no compulsion to reply to it either.
But if you do decide to reply. You will have atleast one very interested reader
guaranteed!! :)
