La Dolce Vita - Part I

 

“I see trees of green

Red roses, too

I see them bloom

For me and you

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world.”

The song lyrics above may not give the exact meaning of a sweet life to many but in a way, that’s a part of it. When we are able to see the beauty of the world where we are and when we can fully appreciate the love that we share with that special person in our lives, then we could be living a sweet life. Not everyone is having such a life especially those who are in trouble, those who are sick, those who have broken relationships, those who have failed careers and so much more. The list could be endless and there are so many things in this world that hinder our way to living a sweet life. But we can always find an avenue in which we can create the life that can make us happy and contended despite the many hurdles on the road that we’re passing through.

We are living in a time of our lives where ‘busy-ness’ is what becomes everybody’s business. Day and night. We never stop. We open our eyes in the morning, still half asleep, jump out of the bed, run to the shower, dress up and hit the road. In the office, we will be fully occupied with phone calls (both business and personal), meetings, receiving and replying to emails (both business and personal, again!), chatting over the messenger and updating all the social networking sites we are engaged in. After the office hours are over, we will get online with our Blackberry’s so we wouldn’t miss out anything while we’re physically detached from our laptops and meet friends in a café, spend time with them over dinner in some fancy restaurant in town, then go home late. Again, we will check on our friend’s statuses on their FBs, see new photos uploaded, chat with netfriends who are still online while watching some movies on MBC and will go to bed an hour past midnight or maybe two. On weekend nights, we will be out on discos and bars, see the movies, and do mall-hopping with friends to catch the latest trends.

We are practically consumed 24/7 by the city where we live in, by the virtual world we are engaged in, by the careers we are trying to pursue and by the money we are trying to make. We become restless. We become prisoners of what we assume as freedom from the world that we created ourselves. We know that we are satisfied with our everyday life. We will close our eyes at night knowing that we lived our day just right. But are we happy?

We are driving a good car, we are wearing designer clothes and we stay in a good place in the city but we have shallow relationships. We grace social events and we meet classy people but do we ever have real friends?

When did we last stop to smell the roses? When was the last time we sincerely hugged the person who cared so much about us? When was the last time we said ‘I love you’ and really mean it? When was the last time that we watched the sun set with a friend? When was the last time have we really been connected to our innerselves? When was the last time we thanked God for our life?

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