A new journey is going to begin from today. This article is a part of that. For years, I have been carrying the desire to write, sometimes poetry, sometimes drama and sometimes movie scripts. But everything remained on the hard drive.

Then my heart thought, what is the use of writing that never gets published, whether someone reads it or not, you should write, if writing gives peace to your mind, then this is enough.

Anyway, life is strange too. In childhood, we wanted to grow up, and now we want to become a child again. Millennials are a little sensitive by nature.

Because in childhood we got beaten by our parents and in school, teachers also used to beat us. Today, when we see our parents or go to schools, children are treated like kings.

Anyway, perhaps because of all the beating we received, we studied, got educated and somehow managed to get a good job, but who knew that life itself was going to give us a hard time.

We are the generation that bows our heads and keeps pleasing the manager, and our juniors speak to us directly on our faces, but still we go outside smiling and, while taking sips of tea, sometimes talk about cricket, sometimes Bollywood, sometimes politics and sometimes about our personal lives.

In the streets of the city, on the mobile screen and on the keyboard of the laptop, life has become so tangled that the child inside is crying and nobody is able to hear him. This same child, who is a part of nature, wants to merge into nature. He wants a peaceful place, far away from the noise of the city.

Anyway, today I have everything that I wanted, a good job, family, my own house, and still there is a kind of emptiness that keeps troubling my heart. And I don’t know what that emptiness is, but I feel like going to a place where there is nobody, only me, my book, my pen and nature everywhere.

I want to capture this nature through the camera, in words and in books in such a way that these memories never become separated from my heart. Whenever I see it, read it or listen to it, it should refresh the heart just like first love.

Often, we hear that people have become angry and impatient, but perhaps only a few people can recognize the footsteps of that child inside who is troubling us, and as a result, all these states of mind come in front of us.

That child needs to talk to himself, stand in front of the mirror and look at himself, style his hair, look at himself, smile and have a conversation with himself. But under the weight of responsibilities or through trends, that child is being ignored.

Here is a question for you, if you desperately want to talk to someone, want to meet them, and that same person ignores you, won’t you get angry?

Life is meant to be lived, not to be passed. Work is for life, life is not for work, if we can just understand this difference, perhaps we can walk on the roads of happiness.

Someone rightly said, “The biggest disease is, what will people say?”

Today, in this very race, we are so busy impressing people and showing fake friends things on social media that the name of life itself is not even coming on our lips. Oh, I am walking, what will people think, does he not have a car?

Oh, this car is an old model, people will laugh if I don’t buy an expensive car. Oh, I am not wearing branded clothes, then people won’t invite me. And in this race and in the statuses of social media, we keep getting more and more tangled.

“Oh, people won’t invite me,” but in that thought, you are not inviting yourself, brother. Just think about this once.

Care about people, but don’t become a victim of their narrow thinking.

I will walk, my health will remain good. I took my foot out from under the car and started walking to the gym, what kind of logic is this?

Yes, my car model may be old, but its only purpose is to help me travel. I will buy an expensive car and still keep it parked in the garage.

The more private life remains, the better it is. Go travelling, see nature and capture nature in your camera, capture yourself too, take selfies and make a big album, and looking at it with your family and being happy is what life is.

And by family, I mean the people who live in your house, not those distant relatives whom you keep trying to impress by putting status after status and raining photos in WhatsApp groups.

There is only one mantra to stay happy in life, love yourself first. Because if you don’t love yourself, then how will you love your family?

There is this one thing, if you don’t eat yourself and remain hungry, how will you go to work? And if you don’t go to work, then money won’t come, so will your WhatsApp friends come and fill your stomach?

No.

That’s why eat first, so that you stay healthy, and with a little hard work, feed your family and love them.

And whenever you feel that you are burning out, stress is coming, first of all put a brake on the vehicle of your daily life, sit in your car or catch a bus or train and go to a place where there is only you and nobody else, no noise of the city, no horns, no last task, no suggestion, no order, no status, no mobile, only you, nature, and your favourite activity.

In my case, it can be getting lost on a beach or in a jungle, reading a book and writing it into words, perhaps in your case it can be trekking, photography or something else.

So, this was my first article, my journey, my beginning.

And if you liked my words, then please support me.

Life should be such that there is no place for judgment, no worry about anyone’s likes, dislikes or comments.

Namastey.

The Child We Left Behind