20210819 : Online Quotes

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

And my personal favourite

"Live your life today like there is no tomorrow."

These are just a few samples of a million more that we constantly see. In chats, in groups, in emails, every form of social media, etc.

They are all very beautiful and very powerful. Most of all, it's all in very simple language. Not cryptic. Not things we can't understand.

Yet, life goes on, as it were mostly.

One of my friends, recently, was trying to make a similar point and quoted J Krishnamurthy as saying, 'we can only know if someone has understood something if it leads to a change in their behaviour.'

We all know and understand basic concepts in mathematics. But how many of us use it in our personal lives. In many decisions we make.

Same for all other concepts we know.

It's not that we don't understand it. But do we really really get it? Do we get beyond the intellectual mind to apply it?

Its like the barrage of online quotes. We understand all of it.

Probably a century ago, people would travel days, across the country, to hear wise folks to say such things and probably act on it as well.

It's almost like we don't see the value because it is available to us so inexpensively and so abundantly.

I think, we have an overload of these things. A fatigue of a form.

It's almost like our minds have built some sort of defence against this barrage and assault. An auto spam filter if you will. As soon as we encounter any of it, it goes hazy and numb. We revert to a predetermined action (either forward or delete). And we can carry on as we were.

Some of them are very lofty. Asks for drastic changes. Not really possible to adopt.

But others are simple. Easily doable 

So what is your personal favourite? Have you managed to do something about it?