Whenever i see the erstwhile Me,
some things i wish i had known way-back somewhere in starting out of my life. I am now almost 25 years old and i can't change the past; Can i change things now, I'm not sure... Though i'm not a big believer of regrets, i am posting this so that i could hover in the past to know the things which i should have known them when i was graduating from my college and starting out an adult life...
1. Prodigal spending of money: I guess, I Tried my level best to squander all the money i had.... Many a times, I used to buy stuff which i never wanted, may be just to show off... Often spend lavishly to buy something which apparently is not at all worth the money... Taking out my car unnecessarily so that it could help me impress a girl / stranger...
I need to think over my spending's, whether its worth the money i spent.. Spending money for impressing an stranger rather than yourself will obviously put me at zenith of stupidity.
2. Eating a lot of Junk food: Frankly speaking, i was a Glutton & devoured a hell lot of scrap which you see near the roadsides. Often Partying without any occasions or events became a routine. Those days i never thought of health and physical appearance but later i understood that i was constantly adding up my weight and my attire need an extra size to keep-up. Ahh, guess that if someone showed me my after-picture before, would have helped me not gain this additional pounds.
But Now i realized that i spend a hell lot of money on food, a pure junk. Started cooking food and its the best thing i can do as its interesting and most of all its the best healthy diet to have. Now on my myth is "Mortify the Outside food".
3. Investments for the future: Hmm, I used to spend money frivolously. Though i used to plan savings for my near future but never ever made a diligence effort for it. Always lack bucks when i had to buy something worthy. Feels lament when i get this query of how much I could have invested for all these years? From now -on i need to plan properly about the INVESTMENTS.
4. Forget the Drama. Focus on being Happy: There were things that have happened to me which seems like the end of the world. These things were bad, which actually fills up in head and blow up so that they become a major drama. It caused me depressed from time to time. Drama made my life harder. It just complicates things: making little things more complex and used to neglect the bigger things which matters. What a waste of time. It just aids tension, depression, stress, fear, anger, pessimism, failure from within.
I wish that i could have realized that there's no need to get overly emotional and a little breathe and serenity could have made the situations a lot better. Could have skipped all the moping by being happy, pursuing things from fresh and look it as a way to reinvent myself... Just Annihilate Drama by staying HAPPY.
5. Always Nodding Head & saying 'YES': I won't go into details but its suffice to say that i had bad experiences. Always nodding and accepting things makes the situation a little prosperous for that moment, but ultimately i had to suffer to keep-up those things. After-all I can't Fix Everything by Nodding...
I need to be Smart enough in making decisions and should stop wiggling in making decisions else it will affect one's personality.
6. Make up time for Avocations: I love photography, read novels and do blogging. With college life and laziness i soon realized that there weren't enough hours in a day. I need to make those hours and show some respect towards my hobbies. I need to keep aside a block of work and cut away the stuff which eats away my life and don't let anything interfere with that work. I can absolutely guarantee that Hobbies make u feel good to live a LIFE lively.
7. Friends and Family: The foremost essential thing that matters in Life is Friends and Family. But there were many hostile situations with my closed ones in the past which could have been completely avoided with some proper humor and common-sense via a little intellect and understanding.
I wish i could have spend more time and could have added more value to all my friends and my family. After-all, No one in this world is too Bad to deserve hatred. It requires thinking from their perspective, emphasizing their views and ofcourse need to cut out Ego and practice forgiveness... May be all that's not an skill that you may get from book reading.
Friends and Family makes Life Invigorating and add Charm in it. Never Ever lose them and become a JERK.
8. TV and FB: All that time you spend watching TV is a huge, huge waste of time. I don't know how much TV i have watched over the years, its just a crap-load. Hours, days and weeks I'll never have back.
These days even addicted to Facebook, though its good to be social and share information but it just eats away all the time you have. Wasted hours in Facebook/Orkut/Twitter, which is apparently not worthy of spending all that time. Time is something you'll never get back.
It's better that I carry a timer while networking and Watch TV and just find out the time i spend in these crap. The result gonna DAZZLE me for sure.
9. Time Management: I have a disease called "Lack of Time Management". There doesn't exist a Word called 'In-Time' in my dictionary. I have been always Late to almost all the activities I do. I love to procrastinate the things. Its just so inherent and almost unavoidable. Guess i need to face a series of regretful experiences before i sort out a solution for it.
10. Being Smart is not Smart enough: The act of being smart just brings out dumbness in life. It all started in my high school and graduation days where I started "One day batting". In the act of being smart i mostly enjoyed bunking all the classes, never used to open the books, don't even bother about what the syllabus is, actually don't even know the subjects I had in that semester, until a day comes and what not, its just before the day of exam. Though it had some satisfactory results in the initial stages which lead me to start criticizing that one doesn't need to study all the time for his academics instead 'A Night-out stand' is more than enough to get good grades. But this just carried away. Later i had to compromise with the grades, felt inferior to others, was frivolous with all the opportunities i had.
I should have learn the act of perceiving the consequences at that time. Have to Agree that "Hard Work Really Pays Off".
Atleast Realized that something needs to be modified in me. Now i can yell-out that i have gained some handsome experience in Life ....
P.S. No Regrets with the past. I'm doing great & Very much Happy for whatever I am now..
