Day 43-Whats your mantra?

If you have had the good fortune of being surrounded by elderly people, you must have heard a lot of life lessons from them. Profound ideas, simple ideas, dos and donts in life, regret and guilt..so so many things  ..all in the intention of making sure you do not commit the same mistakes that they did.
Over a period of time, life teaches us many many lessons but a few seem to repeat themselves as if like a compass trying to point in some direction that you ought to be focussing upon. If someone were to ask you what is your mantra in life...you probably will be able to recall some life lessons that have stayed with you through REPETITIVE experiences.
One such glorious moment of my life was when I realised mine.
I remember when I was in school, I couldn't wait to grow up and go to a city. It was my greatest dream to move and live in Chennai. Having lived in a small town for a very long time, it was nearly a utopian dream for me...to be able to enjoy the hustle and bustle of a city. And this dream did infact come true. Later I had the dream of travelling abroad. Now, city life had lost its charm. It was travelling to a far away land that I was enamoured about. That dream too came true. But when that happened and I started the take in the sights, sounds and experiences of the new foreign land, I couldn't wait to go away to another place..some place different from the one I lived in.
When I was in college, owning a mobile phone was a big deal. I managed to get my first-a second hand phone when I started working. My joy knew no bounds then, but the charm was short lived. I wanted a new phone...I then wanted a different brand -something not many people owned!Then I wanted a smart phone...then an apple phone...
This WANT kept onnnn changing
While I did get what I wanted to a great extent, the charm was also short lived.
I longed for a vacation..and dreamt all about it....only to realise that all of that was over in a jiffy and reality caught up with me.
I cried and cried and cried over some issues that I thought engulfed my life...only to turn back and laugh at how trivial those problems actually were.
And the greatest realisation of my life came to me ...."This too shall pass"
This also shall pass and I probably will adopt some other new mantra later..but as of now..life has taught me this lesson..this same lesson in ways more than one!
What is your mantra?

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