A Happy Life : Hacks & Cheat Codes
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But first... What is life? And what is not life? A lot of intellectuals, spiritualists, philosophers and other great or not so great people have talked about "What the ____ is life?" They've used various adjectives, there are so many answers to this question on google that after my research I actually failed to come up with a unique answer (cries😢). But I still have the audacity to put my views here...
So, others have described life as "life is a journey" or "life is a party", a year ago I used to say "life is a vacation". But now what I've come to know is that, life is literally whatever you wish, but what it is definitely "NOT" , is something to be taken seriously (the capitalised, bold, italicised, underlined quoted "NOT" may tell you how much of my emphasis lies on this one word) Life is "NOT" something to be taken seriously. If you consider yourself mature enough for deciding to stop reading this article right at this point, please keep reading 🙏
The stress that we are given since our birth to the day we die, for competing in a rat race that shouldn't have even existed for humans in the first place, that stress is useless. If for once you experienced death, even a metaphorical death, you'll understand that life is so much more than just survival.
Tbh, almost all of us go through a metaphorical death at some point, at least once, all of us have encountered perspective shifts, but the problem is that after a month or two, we get back to being the hamster of the wheel(consumers/aspirants/employees of different capitalist organisations or simply anywhere). Because from the time we were born, to this day, "the system" has programmed us for being that hamster only, it's just that some hamsters have better wheels and bigger cheese-bait. "The system" has made us to believe that this wheel is the only destination that is made for us and we've always been trained to be that hamster of the wheel, we think that this can be our only reachable destination "the wheel". Little can we see the world beyond this wheel and until we come to see it, we find ourselves already spinning the wheel, running and running to get the cheese-bait but never reaching it.
But those of us, who actually see beyond these baits and figure out the system's deception, either never step in the wheel or simply step out of it. That's when we actually start living, that's when life becomes a party.
Basically, we spend half of our lives, learning some survival skills and half of it we spend in using those survival skills and passing them on to the next generation. In between this survival process, there come small moments of life that we actually live.
But, life is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, before we realise this, we find ourselves already laying on our death-beds...
Opportunity knocks the door only once, even if we believe in the 'soul-body-changing' concept of death, still there's no guarantee that you'll become this beautiful person that you are today. (You are very beautiful btw ;))
So now that I have tried my best to make you see the truth of life, let me take you to the hacks and some cheat codes for living a happy life.
Happy Life - Hack 1 :
"Live in the moment"
Some Influencer said-
"According to the current truth, practically, there is no past or future, our mind is always tricking us by either memory or hallucination, where past is memory and since future hasn't come into existence yet, so us imagining the future is hallucination. But this does not mean that we stop taking lessons from past or stop preparing for future, we just have to keep a check that we don't overdo it."
Be mindful in this moment, right now, wherever you are, lift your eyes up from screen and appreciate your surroundings even if it's just a wall, touch it because once you're dead you won't be able to do so (because as a ghost if you try to touch it, you'll come to the other side through it lol). Appreciate your existence and the existence of those you love and those who love you and for those who hate you, look at your hands and thank God that you still have your middle finger (no offence to those who don't tho).
Do not get stuck in your idea of how things should've been or how you imagine for things to be in the future. Do not replay your mistakes and hurt of the past over and over again in your head, because for your information, our brain is such a dumb shit, it knows no difference between memory and real experience, when we replay the same hurt over and over again in our minds, it does the same damage to us as it did during the real time experience. So save yourself from the useless hurt and do not replay scenarios in your head again, meditate and be mindful so that whenever your mind takes the wrong turn you can stop it mid way. So don't be stuck in memories and don't be obsessed with imaginations.
A cheat code for this hack is -
"Go with the flow"
Happy Life - Hack 2 :
"Be Accepting"
Your life is a castle built by moments, it depends on you that how grand of a castle can you make it (and mind you, a hamster of a wheel can never make a grand castle unless that hamster is actually into fitness and loves jogging ;)). Some amazing facts about these moments are~ Each present moment is inevitable, it's definite that as this moment passes we are bound to experience the next one, then next and next till death, and the amazing part is that even after being soooooo small, this entire existence sits in the lap of this tiny moment and it is very much of a possibility that the very next moment, everything might disappear, just like how no one imagined that the entire world could someday suddenly be home-bound because of something that can't even be seen by naked eyes but here we are today (covid). So, each moment is inevitable, instead of obsessing over 1 particular possibility in a pool of infinite possibilities, we should simply accept the current reality.
And after all, this moment, this time is ever - changing. Right now won't exist any more than right now. This time won't exist forever. It won't exist even for your particular forever.
A cheat code for this hack is -
"This too shall pass"
Not just these moments but also be accepting of firstly, yourself. How can you not appreciate this magnificent beauty that you are? How can you not see it?
I'll again go back to 'the system', it has made us learn sheep-walk and made us forget the uniqueness of each one of us. It is wonderful how all of us are just the same human beings but we're all still so unique in so many different ways, be it physically or mentally. But since we've never got to know ourselves completely, we are not able to embrace our uniqueness and end up judging ourselves for not being like others instead. But the point is, You, are not like others, because you were never meant to be that way. You are You for a reason, You are an expression of the varieties that this infinite creation presents in front of us, You are a marvellous representative of the creation itself. Please accept and love yourself ( otherwise I will UwU ). Once we learn to love and accept ourselves, we automatically open up to appreciate other magnificent representatives of creation too.
Charity begins at home, and You are Your permanent home, so make this home of yours a happy place filled with love. Be kind enough to love and appreciate yourself first and you'll eventually start treating anyone and anything the same way.
Another cheat code for this hack is -
"I am worthy of receiving everything that I'm willing to offer"
Happy Life - Hack 3 :
"Love without limits"
"Well open up your mind and see like me,
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing
We are just one big family
And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved loved."
These lines from the song "I'm yours" by Jason Mraaz says it all.
Love frees us, anything less or more than love, limits us. Starting from loving ourselves, we automatically start loving everyone and everything eventually. The basic human nature is love, a baby loves anyone and anything until the baby is taught being judgemental and hateful, not like giving a training or anything but the baby picks up whatever it sees happening around. If all of us love everything and everyone limitlessly, this planet will become our paradise, everyone's paradise.
Love comes with responsibility, we become responsible first for ourselves and then for others too. "We are responsible for everything and everyone". This mindset is not a limitation, this mindset is a freedom instead. Having this mindset doesn't let us to stay ignorant to situations where our intervention is needed but we take those situations passively because of "its not my responsibility" mindset. If we truly love ourselves then eventually everything and everyone else, all of us can be free, because as I said earlier "Love sets us free".
Love anything and anyone, everything and everyone. Be responsible first for yourself, then for everyone and everything else.
Being responsible doesn't just mean to feed and provide someone, but being responsible also means taking care of someone, having the back of someone, not letting them be lost in the societal norms and judgement criteria, saving them from situations that hurt them.
Beginning with yourself, ask yourself more often, "How are you? How do you feel? Do you need rest? Are you too tired of this rat race? Are you weighed down by the fear of the thought that you're simply running and running without having any idea about where are u reaching?"
Be your own best friend and slowly, the entire world will become your lover and you'll fall in love with life. Because life is meant to be loved. Love.
A cheat code for this hack is-
"I love you"
And a fun fact about this cheat code is that it can be used anytime anywhere without a second thought ;-) .
Happy Life - Hack 4 :
"Differences are illusions"
The differences of caste, race, religion, ethnicity etc. are mere illusions, created by power seekers to control the mass. The only reality is that we're all one human race. There is just one creator that all of us love and worship, it doesn't matter if we see that one creator in it's original form or in various other forms, it doesn't matter if we are categorised under a certain label or not.
We are in love with the creator, every single one of us, it's just that we have different point of views, and we adapt to whichever definition of that one creator, suits our perspective.
I'll cover this topic in a separate article.
A cheat code for this hack is -
"We are one. Earth is our home and love is our religion."
Happy Life - Hack 5 :
"Do whatever the shit makes you happy"
You are sufficient for yourself. You are not incomplete without a lover or if you're not a billionaire or anything. It's okay all of this is very very very secondary.
Take time to discover yourself, no matter how long it takes. Be your own true love, be your own saviour, your hero. Cherish yourself Take a break just to get to know yourself better because you are worth it then go in the direction of what your heart actually truly loves.
Don't be a people-pleaser, don't do something just because someone told you that your dream is not quite reachable or something like that. Don't do something just for the sake of earning money and surviving through life somehow, don't be that hamster of the wheel.
Go with the flow, take chances to get what you wish for. Go for what really makes you happy. Once you become actually happy from the bottom of your heart, everyone around you will become happy too.
A cheat code for this hack is -
"If you want it, go and get it."
- A Bonus Cheat Code :
"If it's meant to be it'll be."
Now this cheat code is wholesome. You don't have to worry about anything in life. Existence is so so so precise that everything here works out in balance. All you have to do is do your work. Do your part. Work up to your limits, but do not stress about something that is beyond your limits.
We do not have control on everything here in life, all that we can really control is ourselves, and we know our limits very well, we can just work up to those limits, not beyond that.
If you want something, make an effort in that direction but do not stress over whether you'll actually get it or not because that is something that is actually not in your control.
In every life situation we can only exercise control over our part, which is putting in our best possible efforts according to the time, situation and our own condition, but after having done our possible part, we have no control over how things are gonna turn out.
As Krishna said to Arjuna,
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भुर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥
You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty. - Bhagavad Gita, Chapter II, Verse 47.
Even if you think you did not put in your best efforts somewhere, you can still be kind enough to understand your reasons, what made you unable to do your best, you can understand that, because if you won't, let me tell you, no one else would either. And even if you feel like you were careless and if you blame yourself for it, still be kind enough to forgive yourself. Life is a lesson. You are simply learning, take the lesson and give yourself a chance to do better instead of beating yourself over and over again.
Everything works in perfect balance, things really do happen for a reason, and we realise those reasons long after the situations have passed. Have faith that better times will definitely come. And in fact wherever you are in your life right now, take a moment to appreciate everything that has made you this amazing person that you are today. From the farthest memory to this day reminisce every moment you remember, the good, the bad, the best, the worst. If you feel like crying, cry. Love yourself enough to truly express how you're feeling without caring about what will people say. Take charge of your life, your truth, your happiness.
Now coming to the end of such a long article (don't cuss me please UwU) if you remember I called these hacks some 'not-so-short-shortcuts'... that's because all these sayings from some great people, are of actually no help, they don't make us magically skip the situations in life like how it happens in video-games... They just fool our minds like what Phunsuk Wangdu did in 3 idiots. And to be honest our mind is the biggest biggest fool that exists, we need to control it, otherwise it creates too much mess. And these sayings simply keep this biggest fool under control. These sayings are literally the "cheat" codes for our mind. So I hope you use these as and when you need to. Just stay happy wherever, and however it is possible for you. Don't forget to say I love you to yourself and everyone around you🙏🙏.
Thank you for reading.
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Charvi🌸
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