I was just not up to the mark. My mind was racing at the possibilities, but my body wasn’t. I could sense that the body I had ordered around to do things is not obliging anymore. Tried everything from exercises to energy drinks, vitamins to what not’s, but the spark was not there. I thought I was getting older faster than I thought originally. But then, I discovered something else.
Life of Lags.
I was able to then relate my body being active, but the mind slacking when I was much younger. I was restless with many things that I can accomplish, but the knowledge that I had to acquire was taking more time than I thought. I thought I will be very old before I could do something useful. But then, I discovered Life of Lags.
We talk about a lot on IT aligning with business, business responding to the changing needs of customers, we then talk about customers themselves as not being well aware of things happening around them and talk about education and training to align them to the rest of the world. But then we have missed out of knowing one thing – Life of Lags.
Lags in life are a naturally occurring phenomenon that we should start enjoying the challenges it brings; messiness that it creates; discoveries that it helps to make; overall, it makes the world around us buzz. Just think for a moment if everything gets aligned with everything else around you. Momentarily you may think that you have some stability, some happiness, some peace, but very soon you will find that as boring and will embark on something else that will unsettle all of that. You will learn the boredom lags behind active life and active life lags behind boredom. You will now start realizing the beauty of Life of Lags.
Embrace it the way that you must. Flow with it the way you must. Look forward to it the way you must. You would then discover the true meaning of life and its existence. It does not matter whether you are on top of the world one day, but looking up the next day; it does not matter whether you think you have missed the boat, but thought you are in it to win it the next day; it does not matter whether you think your body is lagging behind your mind or your mind is lagging behind your body – enjoy the true meaning of Life of Lags.