New Folder

I had opened my pendrive to clear unwanted data and stumbled across the folder “New Folder”. Before opening the folder, I paused and wondered if this is the New Folder virus that contains no data but creates another such folder on double clicking it. I however went ahead and opened it. And voila! What do I find? It’s not any virus but just an empty folder. Apparently I had created a folder with the intention to store some data but had forgotten to do so even before I could name it. That’s the only reason it was still named “New Folder”. This is not a rare phenomenon in our lives. 

Most of us have had a dream. An unaccomplished and long lost dream. The New Folder represents our unfulfilled dream. These are the dreams that we once had but lay forgotten amidst the crowd of our daily chores and busy schedules. They may be as simple as cooking a new recipe, visiting a place of interest, reading a book, planning a get together with friends etc.  For eg. I have created a blog with the intention to keep up my hobby of writing. But I have hardly posted anything on it off late. My blog is the New folder of my life. I am sure everyone of us has a new folder of its own kind.

Existence of such New Folders shows that we are bad at setting our priorities. We have the knack of accommodating myriads of things as our priorities. Like - Waking up early, Cooking a healthy meal for our family, Meeting stringent deadlines at office, Late night calls and meetings. In fact we tend to accommodate everything that could add to our stressful lifestyle on our priority list but not our dream. We sacrifice lot of time and effort on everything but ourselves. Don’t you think we deserve some attention for ourselves? Don’t you think before being kind  and compassionate towards others, we should be kind to ourselves? Don’t you think before expecting respect from others, we should respect ourselves?

Life is a gift given to us by God. Dare to dream and don’t hesitate to fulfill it. You are the best you have. If you don’t have time for yourself, no one else will.  If you don’t respect your own interests no one else will. Let us all recheck our priority list. Let us all name our New Folders and fill it will good memories of our dreams. Let us all give ourselves this lavish treat of satisfaction, for we deserve it.