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Welcome, welcome back to success with Srini. Happy Wednesday morning to you on the podcast today. I have a question kind of an interaction that I just had with a friend of mine yesterday, a very dear friend of my childhood friend, and kind of became philosophical as we were talking. And he’s going through his own challenges and setbacks and all. And he was picking my brain. He said you know, how do you deal with this? How do you deal with that? And he was a listener of my radio show, but ever since I started pushing this podcast, he started listening to it. And his point was here heard your podcast, and you said that every moment is our first moment. It’s the last moment what do you mean by that? And all that. So it was kind of a very broad discussion. And at one point, I said, to cut him off, I said, Listen, you know, you can’t think about your past as much the time you’re spending, thinking about the past, I think you’re losing your ability to create the future.
Clearly, if you think about your past, you’re losing, and that much amount of time, then clearly, you’re not thinking about the future. So you’re compromising the future. The future is still a dream. So your job is not to dream about the future. If the future is the dream, and the past is already gone, all you have is this moment, this is the truth. And this moment is what defines who you are, how happy you will be or how sad you will be. So given this is the only moment you have, why not inversion happiness? So that was one point. And then I said, if you really understand if a cut off everything, like everything, you just go to the basics, the basics are this, you came along, you’re going to go along, nobody came with us, nobody is going to go with us. So to begin with, it was a lonely game. And we’re going to end this as lonely as possible. If you have a long life, it’s going to be a hell of a lonely game, clearly. And in between, you is also a lonely game, it’s a long game.
So what we have done, or what we are supposed to do, is we are going to create some love and some friendship. And with love and friendship, will create this illusion that at this moment, we are not alone. That’s all this friendship is all about. That’s all we are doing right now, as I’m sitting and talking to you. I’m just creating an illusion that you and I are not alone. Truth is, you’re alone, I’m alone. So given that this is a lonely game, and given that every moment is what we need to focus on, not to be carried away by what future promise future is promising us or not get really bogged down by what the past has done to us, then the discussion becomes is what are we supposed to do, so that this illusion that we’re creating is as real as possible. In this illusion, also, we mess it up, we say things to people that we are not supposed to say, we show we exhibit some kind of behavior we are not supposed to exhibit. So we are messing up this moment also.
So we are unhappy in the past we are going to be we don’t know what the future is going to be. And at the moment, this is the only moment we have and we’re also messing it up. He was very intelligent. It was very, he’s a very smart guy. And he’s like, okay, so what can what do you think I should do now? Well, there is a five-step formula that I shared with him I want to share with you, which is not mine. By the way, this is not me. This is something that I read many, many years ago, the first formula, the first step in the formula is to Be kind. Be kind because this is the only moment you have. You can get angry, you can get frustrated, be kind, because the person whom you’re getting angry at, they’re also temporary here. You’re also temporary, I’m also temporary. There’s no point to get angry. That’s step one, so be kind. So how do we become kind we become kind by showing some compassion, showing some emotion, some care, some love all that. So just be kind, whatever you think it says to do this, mostly, kindness is through words. Mostly kindness is through intent. So be kind, then be aware.
Be careful what you say and how you say it. Be aware of your personal situation. Be aware of the immediate surroundings that you are in. Be aware of everything that’s happening around the world, which is an invisible world, like something happening in some other country. Just be aware. Just be aware and thanks to the times that we are in right now. We have so much information coming our way. We could be incredibly aware. And we choose not to, by the way, that’s a whole different story. But it’s coming to us. Then be interested, interested in everything that’s around you. Be interested in philosophy be interested in, spirituality, be interested in engineering, be interested in politics, finance, law, relationships, everything, engineering, medicine, everything. Why shouldn’t you be? By the way, you have no idea you are much smarter than what you tell others what you exhibit to others is what you claim to have. In your qualification, you’re much smarter, all of us are much smarter. So it’s natural. It’s the process, natural curiosity. That’s the natural process of living. So be interested, be awake, be awake, awakeness. Most of the time people are sleeping, the sleep, the sleep a lot, the sleeping on activity, the sleeping on decisions, that sleeping on everything. So be awake. Just bring your best brain to anything that you’re supposed to do, or you’re about to do. And then last one, overall, always, in every moment, be thankful.
Thankful for something that is going wrong, thankful, thankful for everything that has gone right? thankful that you tomorrow morning, you’re going to wake up and see the sun, thankful that you saw the sun yesterday. Be thankful, in general everywhere, wherever you can. You don’t need to show this outside, but in your mind as a part of your own self-dialog. If you be thankful, that’s enough, you don’t need to talk to anybody else. So this is the formula on how to create love and friendship, and keep creating and magnifying this illusion. At this moment, you’re not alone. When you do these things or any of these things, and doesn’t matter, one or two, from this list of five, doesn’t matter. You don’t just have one, right? You have some elevation in the illusion, you do all the five, right, you’re like totally, you know, totally consumed by it. You are an absolute illusion. You know, it’s amazing how I have personally met and spoken to people. Every individual has their own definition of what life is on how life is. And it all depends on their own experience. And I made them say in if somebody’s painting life is very low, then the first thing I do is share this formula with them. Like here’s the formula. So that’s exactly what I did with this friend and here’s the formula, man go create this illusion. So this podcast is an illusion to everything is an illusion. We are here in this illusion.
So anyway, so hopefully you got this point. Hopefully, this is helpful. Hopefully, they submit to today’s discussion. That’s all wherever you are, be safe and be focused. Make sure that you are capturing this moment and maximizing this moment. Okay. As I was recording this podcast as I am recording this podcast, my idea is that you maximize this moment as you’re listening to this. That’s all for now. And I will be talking to you as early as tomorrow. Take care bye now.