I might not be a fan of it but I understand it is good. Its good when we are working and its good when we are living. I have been thinking of the scenarios I have been thrown at so far and I feel it is necessary.
Take our job for example, if we are not in rush, if we don't have a date when we have to finish it we will be taking more time. Now I won't say unrealistic deadlines are a key but yes the ones that challenge us and the ones that make us push our boundaries are sweet! Now when we are given a deadline, at the moment we feel angry about it, we feel that the need to fix up a timeline for everything is not necessary but when we solemnly think about it we understand the need. We might think at that time that we would have been able to learn more if not given an end date but we might have not completed the task with that pace either. That adrenaline rush we get when we decide to complete the given task in a day or may be in an hour, that is a good feeling. The feeling when we challenge ourselves and we get out of it victorious is unimaginable. Why just job, take studies too. When given a date of exam, only then we think we really need to study and finish that course before that. Imagine a world without any exam at all. Seems nice at first, but leaves us with no real experience or growth.
Having goals is important but attaching a date with it is equally necessary. Somethings might take up more time than others but at the end, they need to be completed within that time. This is what pushes us and makes us work a little harder than before. This is what drives us.
When we have the feeling that this time is not forever, this phase of life in which we are in will pass too, its then we feel we want to make the most out of it. When we go to some place for vacations, we know we are there for a couple of days only and we have this list of things we want to see or do there. This is what drives us. Now imagine if you stay in that place forever at the time being, you know you always have the option do to that thing tomorrow, or day after that. You know you are not time bound, and this right there goes on. Which is why we barely visit places where we live.
You know why? Because we take it for granted. We know today or tomorrow it will be there. We do the exact thing with the people we love. We do this to our own life!
When in the back of our mind, we have this thought that this might not be the same tomorrow, we create an urgency. But otherwise, we just get too comfortable that it end up being dull. Remember the school/college time when we always wanted to be a part of everything and to enjoy the time to the fullest, we knew this privilege is not forever. We were not sure if we were gonna see people around us after a few years, we were not sure if we will be in the same city as them, we were not sure if today's loved ones will even be in our tomorrow. We were so unsure yet so happy. And today we have this illusion that we know where life will take us in next 5 years, who will be around us then, what will we be doing with our lives. We think that we know everything and we are so sure. But what we don't realize is that we might be stable, in terms of location, job, or people around us, the life is still not certain, and it will also change. After all that we have been through, now when its most important, we have got too safe and stupid to think that this will stay the same. We think this is how life is going to stay and thus we have been doing things the exact same way we were doing like a year ago. We have stopped stopping and looking back and thinking and looking forward and dreaming. We have stopped putting that effort we used to make, to make a day meaningful and have fallen in the trap of mundanes. And why? Because we have not set up a deadline.
When we knew our high school is going to last for a few years, you wanted to spend it with your friends and make new memories, have fun with them because we knew its a limited time. When we knew college is going to last for 4 years, we were determined to experience everything and to learn and love and live. And the time when we were in our first job, and we wanted to make the most out of our money and time and so we worked for it, we worked for us, without a break because we were not taking it for granted because the rush of it was limited. But now, what we see is indefinite period of work and no set deadlines. We have turned our blind eye towards our own lives and happiness and we just keep on going on. Day after day, week after week, we just spend our days, thinking about all the things we wanted to know, all the things we need to cross off our check list but because we gave ourselves infinite time to achieve that it is taking forever to actually do that. We don't remember that the clock is still ticking even if we choose to ignore it. Time is passing even if we are not ready for it.Because we keep saying to ourselves from tomorrow and everyone knows tomorrow never comes.
This post is meant to mark an end to my 'from tomorrow'. I hope it will do it for you too :)
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