One of My Best Day Ever

Though it’s been couple of weeks since I first did this experiment but I thought to reserve the article for the first day of New Year. It was one of the finest experience of last year and something which taught me a lot. The experience relates to living the day as if it is the last day of my life. Yes, I never meant to talk about such things especially on a New Year eve but I hope readers would see the good part of my experiment than the choice of my concept.

It all started when I first thought to talk about deathbed mentality and the importance of living the last day of our lives. However I wanted to experiment it for real rather than writing about it without little or no experience. The purpose was to highlight the importance of time and how each day holds a value in it. Everything in our life holds a meaning and the sooner we realize it the better it is for us to appreciate the beauty of it. We tend to ignore simple pleasures of life by worrying for things that give little meaning to our life. So one fine night I decided to make it happen for me. I decided the next day would be my last day and I need to live it to my best.

I am a late riser but on that particular day I woke up early. I planned to go for walk with my brother and father and enjoy the morning sunrise and weather. The folks were pretty surprised because it as not real me. They had questions but somehow I managed to ward their thoughts off. Yes, the early morning aura along with fragrance in air is just amazing. The sunrise was too beautiful and it was really breathtaking. Somehow things, which I always wanted to experience, were happening in front of me. Then I thought to go to office early so that I can come back home soon. So I went back home to get ready for office. My wife was little surprised when she saw me coming from outside rather than from my bed. She had questions but then she too was getting late for her own office. I know she loves the nature stuff but this was my day somehow.

I got ready for office. One thing I noticed was that I was extra polite with my family members. There was urge within me to talk more because inside me I wanted to show how much I love them. While driving to office I started to enjoy the driving too. This was after so many months that I didn’t honked much and was not upset by traffic jams and other traffic nuisances. I enjoyed every bit of drive and was patient enough for things to mend on its own. There was eternal piece inside me and it seemed I was enjoying every bit of my drive.

I reached office pretty early and no one from my team was present at that moment. Slowly people started to come and almost everyone was surprised to find me early in the office. I was clearing my work pretty quickly and was making sure to document my inputs for meeting that was scheduled for other days. Since I had planned it to be my last day, I wanted to give my inputs to concerned person or document it so that my knowledge does not go away with me. It was not easy to give handover in one day but I did whatever I could. Next step was to meet my team leads and divide work in a manner that things can somehow move without me. Soon I could felt that there was suspicion in the air and during that time I thought to slow down a bit. I realized that my experiment was more related to joy I could share with people, things I could mend, or bonding I could strengthen rather than worry about work. So from immediate next moment I started to meet people whom I appreciate a lot. I called up some of my other friends and even went outside to meet two of them.

When I reached back home I took out my family for dinner. It was little odd for my parents because it was in the middle of the week. I ordered something I loved and talked about the things in past that were sweet memories. That same night I didn’t fought with my wife for tv remote and I loved how she enjoyed some boring operas. After that it was my time to watch tv and things that I really enjoy. Late night my experiment was over but before going to sleep I thought to document what I leaned the whole day

My Biggest learning

As expected, my biggest learning was to value time. Sitting at this moment, as I write, time is passing away so swiftly and I am helpless to control it. I want to achieve many things in life and postponing it to tomorrow just keep me away from my target for another day. The power of working on things Now is immense because you are prepared to take up next challenges immediately.

On other end it is important to value human relationships. No one is bad ever in life but the situations are. If you are nice with people there is no reason that they would not be nice with you. No one is as close to you as your family and no one can love you as much. I doubted if I could ever be myself without the presence of my family in my life.

Interestingly, that vary day I didn’t wanted to buy myself a new car or even thought about the money I had in my account. None of those thoughts crossed my mind. I got swayed a bit by my work but then quickly I realized it was not the best way to spend my time. So I enjoyed every bit of my time with my friends, family, and things I enjoyed most like food, tv, and going out. I also enjoyed nature to my best though I feel it was not the best of my attempt. I somehow need more time for it.

For my readers- I am not sure if I am able to put my experience in right words in this post but you need to believe me that it was really an eye opener. I was too calm the whole day and there was a sense of peace inside me.

Job, money, and every other thing still remains important for me but now there are other things too that has started to shape up my personality. Somehow I have started to value things that I had ignored earlier and my mind seems to be more in line now.

Practice this on your own and you would find the difference. It is a different feeling when you know you only have 24 hours and you need to be at your best. You would get your answer about the things you appreciate in your life. The experience would enlighten you as it has done for me.

Immediate Effect- You could see my blog being updated regularly from last December. Well, do I need to talk more about my best day ever?

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