Live to the point .

Robin Sharma has put forth a philosophy in his latest book “live like this pencil and you’ll have a fine life” which has been lying in the storehouse called my brain. So finally today I decided I need to address this dormant thought and what better way than blogging so that my friends can help me to further decipher the true meaning of the philosophy.

Let us analyze this quote. What does a pencil signify? The first thought that comes to my mind is the power of words. A pencil however small can write words that can move the hearts of millions be it Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” or Jawaharlal Nehru’s “tryst with destiny”. So I wonder how an inanimate object like a pencil can be part of such greatness and I find the answer floating before my eyes. The pencil knows only one job-writing. It has been made for it and it continues to do so till it perishes. 

The above answer further stimulates my grey cells and I realise we have been made by God for some purpose too but the question to be asked is-are we actually living for that purpose. The answer that I get from my heart and mind is a doubtless NO. We think about so many things at the same time that we lose our focus from those goals which are the very reason of our existence. And I now start to understand the meaning of the philosophy. We have to be like a pencil with sharpened focus and live to achieve our dreams/goals, to achieve what has been destined for us else we will forever keep procrastinating and end up with a duck on our life’s scorecard. 

We need to live to the point like a pencil and be focused on our goals and in the process fulfill the reason of our existence. We need to live life in the present because who knows how many tomorrows have been destined for us by God. So let us live to the point and live our dreams today…