What are the most important days in your life???

The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

- Mark Twain

I stumbled upon this quote one sleepy morning while scrolling through one of the communities in Google + and it sure did make quite a forceful impact on my brain to get me fully awake. Many thoughts rushed into my head when I read this over and over again and like always it doesn’t take my brain long to pull out all the ‘forgotten and buried’ incidents in my life.

Ideally, the day you were born would have been your parents’ most memorable day in their lives. But that doesn’t stand true for every life being born into this world. We do not have control over our lives when we arrive into this world from the cosy womb of our mothers. Today, I am writing and you are, in turn reading this because our parents vowed to take care of us. Well, I cannot really comment about the unfortunate who have lost their lives before they could see themselves grey and old. What I have been meaning to touch upon is the children who are smothered, poisoned and killed in the most cruel ways that is hard to imagine – infanticide. So the most important day in one’s life goes unrecognised and is snatched away from the very people who are meant to safeguard the life until it is strong to be on its own.

I believe everybody is born with a purpose and it is our duty to identify our purpose, but can we make it our sole purpose in life to keep seeking the purpose or just go with the flow and expect to realise our purpose during the course of our life? Our purpose in life need not be something that would alter the world for good – our life does not have to affect the world at a large scale. ‘Five people you meet in heaven’ by Mitch Albom beautifully depicts the purpose of life and explains how we affect and in turn get affected by others in life. What goes around, comes around is so very true! The force of karma definitely revolves around the cosmic realm and touches every life on this earth. This is the reason we are taught at an early stage by our parents and teachers to always do good to people around us, help the needy, respect elders and all the other moral sciences. The cycle of life is exactly the same for everyone and the case of Benjamin Button is curious as ever.  

So how do we find the purpose of our birth? Rewind your memory to the most possible extent and recollect all the incidents that stand out. There would be some which you wouldn’t have considered important enough to be remembered but there is a plausibility of it being to the person it had an impact on. Or you might not have to go that far. Think about who you are with now and consider how you have influenced him or her for the better. I have matured tremendously in life and for me, now life is all about enjoying what I have in hand now, living in the present and trying to spread the joy to as many people I can around me. I am not aiming to change the world – but I would be happy if I can bring a smile to at least one person, when I am being remembered.