My Life, A Cocktail

Every waking moment, you have a choice. Of minimizing regret. We hardly think of the present in such a way, as a way of impacting our future, our children's future. We have somehow successfully disillusioned ourselves and have come to believe that the key decisions we make in life are thoroughly vetted, talked through and rationalized at important phases of our lives. By compartmentalizing thus, we fail to realize that it is these very passing moments that accumulate to become our life. What we do here and now is something we will either be proud of down the line, or something we will regret. It's like that game where your only choice is to play as the timer ticks on, without a pause button. So how will YOU spend this moment?

All day, I sensed this feeling inside me, like I had a news, a news that I wanted to share with my boss. Only, I didn’t know what the news was. Something inside me kept urging me to scrape my brain to try and remember that piece of news. I tried and tried, but nothing came to mind. Eventually, I concluded that it probably was in a dream where I had heard some news that I thought I would go and share with my boss. That happened many days before. Sometimes, even today, I want to remember that news. Dreams can feel more real than you can imagine. I remember back in school when I had this dream, where I meet this friend of mine in a bookstore, dressed in a navy blue fur coat. I had touched the coat in my dream, and till today, can sense its softness. And when you dream such dreams, you start to question. Your concept of reality, your concept of illusions. And somewhere down the line, you come to the conclusion that all that is, is perception. Nothing’s real, nothing’s an illusion. The powe...