Is your life so small to have only one?

Human intellectual is a born species of multiple skills. A baby infant explores around 100+ activities every year that goes from basics such as speaking, walking to singing and building etc. As we grow, some of these skills are left behind and we continue to focus on the very few specific ones.

When we grow old enough to live our adult life, we literally live with only couple of these skills. We leave behind many of our hobbies and end up living a single life.

The questions arises - Is our life so small to have only one?

Many of us, get used to our monotonic life so much that we chose to conveniently ignore to answer this question. All of us have got 24 hours a day which is pretty much of a time. The reason we end up living a single life, is because we overload so much with just one activity, and mostly it is our Job! We think our job, our professional life is making us a great person and that's the only life that we are supposed to live. We think, growing professionally, either in terms of money or designation makes us great amongst a community or society. That continues until we realise that we have wasted all of our life!

"Life has to be large and not long!"

Ideally we have got a life that can be made larger by living so many different lives. Beside working as a big shot professional in corporate, we can also live a life of a singer that always wanted to sing that forgotten melody, or live a life of a poet that could create poetries to change lives of others, or live a life of a writer to share our experiences or fantasies with people or live a life of a social worker who can help people in need, or live a life of an explorer or a globe trotter who can take the experiences of lives from nature and places, or live a life of a nemophilist to wander around woods taking spiritual experiences.

All this is possible with a single life, it's upto us to make the only life we have got to live as a different person - A son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, a father or a mother, a friend, a close companion, a social helper, writer, poet, explorer and all that we like to do.

After all we will be remembered as a person who we are and how we lived our life and not just a single identity of a big shot in a multi-national company!

Live large and live many!

Written by

Santosh Ambekar,

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not reflect in any way those of the organisations or institutions of which he is a member.