Seriously!

“Don’t be dead serious about your life – it’s just a play.” – Sadhguru

I’ve been around a lot of ‘dead serious’ people recently. Usually they carry a rather long ‘serious’ face, pay attention to only the rather ‘serious problems’ and consider themselves ‘very responsible’. Don’t ever try to tell them to loosen up! ‘If it’s not serious, it’s not important’ is their motto.

I’m not one to really judge how serious or important some aspect of ones life are, maybe it really is very important to that person. What boggles me most is the lack of perspective! It baffles me how they become so engrossed in the enormity of whatever it is that is so ‘serious’, that they are unable to take a few moments to consider how tiny their problem really is in the larger perspective of things.

What I’ve come to realize over the years, is no matter how absolutely ‘huge’ a situation feels at the moment, even in the face of death, if one can just pause a few seconds and watch ones own tiny’ness’ in the enormity of this existence, then ones self importance fades away. You feel small, tiny, insignificant, unimportant and relaxed. Suddenly, life feels like a play, where you have to go out and give your best, without any control over the outcome. Seriousness naturally gives way to ease and lightheartedness. This simple shift into ‘insignificance’, this simple change in perspective, is all it takes to move from ‘seriousness’ to ‘playfulness’. Seriously!