Do you love your life?
Thoughts for the Day
It is half past four in the morning, I wake up. The beginning daylight floods into the room, the birds sing their morning song. In the distance I can hear the 24/7 traffic of one of the biggest cities in Europe. I am in Berlin.
I left Berlin 11 years ago. Once in a while I come back to visit, this time it is my family and a few friends I´m spending time with. It´s been a week now and I´ve met quite a lot of people, gone through the shopping malls,
used the underground. And there is this one feeling that begs for attention over and over again: something here is missing. Everybody is busy with all kinds of activities, very busy indeed. But people don´t seem to be happy.
No twinkle in the eye, no smile in their faces. Suffering all around. Life is a huge curse. This might not apply to everyone but according to my observation it keeps growing. Many people are so much engaged in outer activities that they completely forget themselves and what they are here for. They try to achieve power and prestige, a large sum in their bank account and one day they will leave their body and die and everything will be gone.
What is it you are here for? What is life? Why do you suffer instead of rejoycing like the birds every morning when they see the sun rising?
These are the questions I´m asking myself again and again and especially when I´m caught up in some stream of negativity or when things don´t turn out like I want them to. Sometimes in the middle of the marketplace I just want to cry out: STOP!!
Stop this insane hyperactivity, come back to your human self and start all over again every single day. In the morning when you wake up it is up to you, it is your choice to decide what this peticular day in your life will bring you. Start the day with the words and feelings of: I LOVE MY LIFE!
….have a beautiful day 
Nirupama
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:30 am
Hi Nirupama,
Great thought to end on!
I lived in Berlin for about nine months in 1991-2. Freezing in the winter!
I’d love to go back and see how much things have developed since those days.
Best wishes,
David Hurley
http://grasp-the-nettle.com