The feeling of emptiness and its cure
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Sushil Baboo | Mar 27, 2009
Why do you feel so hopeless that your life seems empty? I am bored and don’t like what I am doing. It’s the same again, my job, my relationship all seem so lifeless. I wish to die. What is this life about? These are all statements of helplessness, devoid of natural passion.
The following tips may be useful to make your life more interesting and thereby remove the emptiness that you feel.
1. Acquire a child like curiosity about life.
2. Pursue a hobby and try and learn as much as possible about it.
3. Spend your free time in community development without any expectations.
4. Take interest in other people and their happiness, howsoever small.
5. Smile and see how infectious it really is and how many people will open their hearts to you.
6. be charitable in your speech and actions.
7. Engage yourself in bettering your knowledge in fine arts or other related fields.
8. Play a game for the sake of the game and not for winning.
9. When wrong, apologize honestly.
10. Look at the sky and see its limitless expanse and potential.
11. See the dawn and the dusk and appreciate how naturally the world around us wakens and goes to sleep.
12. Appreciate nature.
13. Go to sleep wondering what you could do if you do wake up again.
14. Believe in the Almighty.
15. Say a prayer with your heart in it.
And finally and most importantly, you live life once, live it to its brim.
It is by no means difficult nor by any standard easy to change your thought process that has been long set. However, you can attain all the above points plus more, that you too can develop, thereby enriching your living.
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Very nice article, something I feel we all need to be reminded of from time to time.
Good post.
In 22 years of IT, I find most don’t enjoy their job, they’re doing it solely to make a living. While everyone need to earn a living, if you don’t act from the core heart of what inspires you, you will experience the negative symptoms you mention above.
IMHO, you could condense the list, many are the same thing at the core:
1. Live from your passions, not needs.
2. Live frugal. It’s more important to be free, without debt, than a higher standard-of-living that won’t fulfill #1.
3. Know thyself. If you’re not cut out for whatever industry/work, change.
4. Work where you’re in service, not out for self. Per your needs, work for a living, don’t live for a work. Live for a work that’s service-oriented toward others. And, this can be multiple, coordinated efforts, e.g. like a 9-5 job so you can do the after-work service of some kind.
5. Stay in touch with nature, it has a way of keeping you grounded about immutable principal’s in life that professional life doesn’t.
Good post.