Dolphins Analogy
By: Rakshit Desai

"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."
-Jeremy Schwartz

As usual I would like to start with my evergreen statement that 'Life is precious. Here every day counts because no one knows when this sweet journey will end. So live every day as though it was your last day'.

I don’t know how many of you will agree with me, but I wish after reading this article at least few of you will give a thought over it. Well, one fine day I got a thought of comparing human life with that of a dolphin and what continues is the analogy, which I got. A dolphin, which is, one of the sweetest and most intelligent animals, has become quite popular in human culture due to its friendly appearance and seemingly playful attitude. If you observe carefully you can easily see the charm, energy and enthusiasm with which it jumps out of the surface of water to breathe. I would like all humans to have the same charm, spirit, and zeal till they are on this ocean called earth. To me all these things would mean, a positive spirit to live life. Helping, loving, caring people around you might increase this positive spirit to a very great extent. But imagine if the dolphin is tied to bottom of the ocean with shackles and is not allowed to come to the surface, obviously it shall not live. In the same way if we tie ourselves with shackles like worries, tensions, attachments, jealousy, hatred, inferiority etc and make ourselves depressed then we will not able to live at our best. It is only by sheer knowledge and awareness that an individual can identify these shackles. Repeated efforts shall wisely make him break these shackles whenever he gets tied to them, so that always he lives life at his best.

Improvisation and contentment are the two keys to a happy and successful life. Just keep on mending your mistakes and learn from them. I would like to quote here some beautiful words by Mahatma Gandhi.
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

So, learn from your mistakes and try never to repeat them in future. Once you accomplish it and make it a habit of improvising yourself, self-contentment will automatically come to you. I know it’s difficult to satiate oneself in this world of materialistic pleasures. But its only, when you learn to be satisfied with what you have, you will not be bothered of materialistic things like money and power. As far as my knowledge goes individuals who know that life has to end one day, would more easily understand these concepts. Money, relationships, competition etc all these are things which add some interest in our lives not to ruin it.

Hope that at least few have got the things explained above. If at least one reader will be influenced by my thoughts and will accept this truth of life, then I will feel my purpose of writing this article was solved. We came empty handed with no relations. When it ends even then the same applies, so just make the life between that duration a memorable one. We are very fortunate to be born as humans. Don’t let this experience go in vain.

“The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
-Joan Borysenko