Basic Thing

“What should we do?” is a typical question which comes to us when we confront a problem. Do you know the answer to that question? Some who know say “Yes, I do” and those who do not know say “No, I don’t”. Me, yes, I know absolutely well how to deal with the problems in my daily life.. However, I don’t have the answer to other peoples’ questions. What I can do to help is to share a story with you so that you can have an idea about how to solve your problem. Here is the story:

A group of college students, who established the Writing Club, begged a well-known novelist to give them a lecture, explaining that all of them were to become writers themselves.

The novelist began with a general question, "How many of you really intend to be writers?" All hands were raised. He said to them matter-of-factly, "In that case, there is no point in my talking. My advice to you is: go home and write, write, write…"
With that, he left the room leaving his audience in stunned silence.

Do you understand the meaning of this story? It tells us to do the most basic thing. For the Writing Club, the basic thing to do is to write, write and write. That is the basic thing.

Coming back to living our lives, what is the most basic requirement of living a life. I would say “Just live life”. This is basic. Whatever arises in life, we just live it. Don’t get stuck with anything. Life has to move on. That is the whole aim of living. There may be a thousand philosophies about how to live a life, but in the end, life must move on.