The word ‘routine’ depicts me a cellar that limits our day to day activities and thoughts. It, in other words binds us in a confinement which at first appears to be safe & secure, but, as we get used to it and a day arises when we feel a desire to do something new, it becomes operose to find way out of this confinement and then one starts digging in the same closet.
At this moment, if we retrospect, we can find that we were just making plans in the past that- I’ll do this and that after so many years/ after I retire/ after I change my job/ after I marry etc. etc. But at that time one doesn’t realize that he/she could have done that then only. Other things were never hurdles in the path but the confinement was.
This confinement, as many may think, is not created by society or for that matter anyone else. It is the person who creates his/her own confinement. It is laid on strong stone of prejudices and so called responsibilities. ‘Responsibility’ is another word which has a different mental impact and it embarks a sense of obligation or compulsion and it is this sense that many people are averse of taking responsibility.
Coming back to confinement, another ill effect of it is that while we are in it, we slowly loose our potential and this loss starts with our hidden potential and is not realized until we start losing our actual potential, which actually only a part but we notice only that, and actually we have lost much more than what we think.
Although, this confinement is made by oneself, the prejudices which form the base of this find their roots in our society & culture. This is the major reason one finds it harder to come out of the confinement/captivity. These prejudices act like hand breaks that many of us forget to release while taking early lessons of driving. But these breaks are not that easy to release!
Simultaneous activation, I feel can and will help to be what one can really want to be and as someone has said that ‘it’s never too late to be what you could have been.’ This is an art and is imposed on us as a child, at that age it appears as compulsion by parents and subconsciously an individual becomes loath to it and sets it aside. Although many of us do simultaneous activation but that is not by choice, we do it as if or actually when we’re forced to do it.
Simultaneous activation can be compared to multitasking operating system. To illustrate my point I want to quote an example- when iPad was launched, its major drawback was lack of multitasking and is the main area identified by Apple to work upon. Many, including me, sought that as main reason for not going for the iPad in near future at least. Now coming back, if one compares it with his/her today’s life, it is just like the single tasking operating system used in the old generation computers. So actually we do things in a way we actually don’t like and this is the reason that we become exhausted at the end of the day and run after those weekends and holidays!
Simultaneous activation, as I understand is an art that enables one to conserve and though against the laws, create energy within oneself! It helps one to discover oneself, his/her hidden potential and unleash it. It is the way one can pursue dreams and breach the barriers that separate dreams and reality.
As a child we enjoy many thing s that now appear to be discouraging obligations. We just express our desires to go for a tour, taking guitar lessons, having a 6 pack or exploring places on bike or some other hobbies which we nurtured as a child. But now that’s not there! We left those with our school! Actually if one observes, whenever one tries to pursue a hobby with deep desire, one can really manage it in time without making any compromises and realize that the right time to do these things is NOW!
It’s not the time that is lacking in life that abstains us from doing what we want to but its lack of energy! This is because we don’t do things that give us back energy, indeed our actions and activities suck our energy out. Doing things we love help us to get back manifold of energy and we still find more energy and time to do something new!!
This is simultaneous activation, the art of doing it now! The art of believing in yourself and art of realization of one’s hidden potential, drams and innermost desires!
Cheers!
