Moment of Lift!

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I've been feeling disconnected from everything and everyone around me for the past few weeks or months. I couldn't figure out why. I even took a break and went on a trip to try and understand what was happening, but it didn't help. I was still at square one, confused.

Then, I started to analyze what I used to do that I wasn't doing any more to feel that connection. That's when I realized that I hadn't been reading or writing in the last few months. It was such a simple solution! All I had to do was go back to basics - Read and Write. That's why I'm writing this second post in a week.

As for reading, I finished "Sach Kahun Too: An Autobiography" by Neena Gupta and then resumed reading "My Gita" by Devdutta Patnaik while simultaneously starting another book "The Moment of Lift" by Melinda Gates, and now am hooked on it! I have only read less than 10% of this book, and am already loving it. Some really good lines till now: 
  • If you do not set your own agenda, someone else will. 
  • If I didn't fill my schedule with things I felt important, other people would fill my schedule with things they felt were important. 
  • What was the point of their opening their hearts and telling me about their lives if I wasn't going to help them when I had a chance? 
  • I suspect most of us, at one time or another, say "I quit". And we often find that "quitting" is just a painful step on the way to a deeper commitment. 
and the best one "What do you know now in a deeper way than you knew it before? I love this question because it honors how we learn and grow. Wisdom isn't about accumulating more facts; it's about understanding big truths in deeper way."

I loved this one so much that I stopped reading in between, and sent this excerpt to a few friends, and then eventually started writing here. 

I am sure this question is going to be with me for a long. And probably this was one of the moments of lift for me! 

In today's hustle culture, we all want to learn, but have rarely known or heard people learning things more sincerely. It feels like now whatever we learn is all superficial learning, as we hardly have any time to go deeper into the things, and understand them better. Understanding something definitely needs investing time into it! And by understanding deeply, I definitely do not refer to erudition. I am looking for that wisdom. As they say, 

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad

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