Feb 16th: What is LIFE?

Life can be a process of GROWING or AGING.
Adding years to life is aging and adding life to years is growing. Most of us are aging and only a few are growing.

Please reflect on this anecdote:

A mother coaxes her son, "Please get up, you have to go to school". The son replies, "I don't want to go to school".  The loving mother says, "You have to go to school to come up in life".  The son says, "No one likes me...not even teachers".  "But son, you're 50 years old and you're the principal of the school; you have to go to  school". Reminds the mother.

Very few people grow up. Most of us grow old. Hence one way of empowering our lives is to GROW UP, which means, ADDING LIFE TO YEARS rather than adding years to life.

So, how to, "ADD LIFE TO YEARS"?
It is by making every moment of your life lively. Being lively to every moment is nothing but being aware of every moment.

We're most of the time dwelling in the past, thinking about future and very rarely in present. Instead, try to stay in the present and go to Past and Future, only as needed.

One way to practice this is to enhance your AWARENESS on the things/activities around you. Such as walking, taking shower, washing hands, working, spending time with your family and etc. This will slowly and steadily transforms your aging life into a lively life (growing). At some point this growth becomes the growth of WISDOM.