Athletes As A Dream of Impulse

What do we find common between a professional footballer on a payslip with 5 zeroes on it every week and an 8 year old running pointlessly in the middle of the day? Is it the spark of fulfilment in their eyes or the joy they get while doing what they love to do?

The answer to this question is also the very reason why kids idolize atheletes. Maybe its because they live out their dreams in them. Just imagine how satisfying it would be to make a living out of something you love to do! Most of us as kids must have had an awesome plan or a dream we now only wish we would have chased. So what changed?

Kids have an enviable knack for doing something with such selfless committment that it is beyond any comprehensible logic. They don't worry about the outcome nor do they need any external motivation. Whereas, we as adults are inspired only by logic, trying to do things only if there is a definite outcome we are aware of. We don't take enough chances. Children are therefore, in many weird ways braver than adults as they don't need incentives as a source of inspiration. So my advice, be impulsive, take your chances, never grow up!


Guest Written By Mohit Lakhotia

Can Curiosity & Maturity Coexist?

It is hard to put a price on what we gain from experience but for some of us there is one great quality that gets expended in this evolutionary step, curiosity. The ironic thing is that curiosity is mandatory for discovery, success & experience and we kill it in the first place as we grow up, by manifesting ego. The first point where loss of curious outlook occurs is when we start to think 'I know', whereas, to start to know something, we should avoid thinking just that.
For those of us who put ego before experience & get hurt & fatigued with every endeavor they make, what is needed to be remembered is that every event in life is a trial. We live to experiment. If we lose the agility to experiment, our life will only be a emotionless chase to nowhere except collecting a few ideas that support our ego.
A childlike curiosity is nature's primary & most precious gift. It is like water to a tree, necessary at the very root & at every step of its growth to gain height & strength that this world demands. All that is needed is to let the water of curiosity be present in the soil of life, to moisten & tender every mature flower.