There Are No Ordinary Moments - Every Moment Matters

As Dan Millman says in his book 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior', there are no ordinary moments. Why do we run away from the present imagining there's something better out there? There isn't. The only moment we have is right now. Cherish the present. Be in the here and now.
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Hello everyone!

I hope that you're doing amazing wherever you are in the world.

My name is Boomshakha and I welcome you to my channel.

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And in this one I wanted to speak to you about something that I've been thinking about.

Maybe this is going to be a topic that's going to be a little bit controversial or maybe a lot of you are not going to resonate with it.

It's totally fine because it's not like I'm looking for all of you to agree with me.

But I'd love to hear your thoughts on it obviously.

And the topic is something to do with how I find celebrating New Year's extremely futile and a waste of time.

And it's funny I mean like I'll play the game and I do play the game and I have played the game and I always do play the game because it's just the way to fit in and to avoid all of the drama.

Because if I don't wish Happy New Year to certain people they're gonna come back at me and say oh my god you didn't wish me Happy New Year and how could you and you don't love me anymore or what's going on I thought that we were friends or I thought that you know the least you could do is wish me blah blah blah.

And so of course I just kind of play the game and I'll wish Happy New Year to all those people who wish me or I'll be like same to you you know all that stuff or I'll actually you know put it out on a social media post or I'll put it out into the channels that I'm in just because it's the the thing to do you have to do it in order to fit into the world.

But you know even while I'm doing it even if I'm writing Happy New Year I always think to myself oh my god why are we celebrating this day like it doesn't make any sense to me that this one day is kind of put on like this pedestal and everyone kind of like dances around this day as if it's like the most important day in the world just like a birthday I really don't get the main the big thing about or the big deal with birthdays either like it does not make any sense to me but that's another topic but really like it's just one day switching to the next day one year switching to the next year and it's a it's artificial concept that has been created by mankind yes the Sun does revolve around the earth Sun revolves around the earth the earth revolved around the Sun and it does take a year yeah it takes 365 days but why is it such a big deal like why are we going berserk up over it why are we putting out thousands of fireworks all over the world why are we celebrating in such a manner then there's other things that should be celebrated but are not celebrated or other things that we should be crying about but we're not crying about but we celebrate this weird one day and then we think that we're doing a great thing by putting all these resolutions around it or a lot of people will you know do a big contemplation at the end of the year or they'll start all of these new habits at the end of the year or in the beginning of a new year or they'll be like all right I'm gonna forgive everyone in my life at a certain date usually January 1st and I just think to myself all right you know this is not a special day nothing big is gonna happen if you start something on this particular day in fact you have many chances to start anything and everything every single day every single day you get up after the sleep that you have that's a new beginning that's like a new year that's like a new birthday like you've been reborn it's a new day it's a brand new spanking day that you're still alive you still have all these beautiful moments to take advantage of you don't need to wait for that particular thing that particular day that January 1st in order to do all these beautiful amazing things to change yourself now of course I'm kind of being a little bit extreme perhaps because you know if if that works for them let them do it why not but then what happens is that you know it's like you know Valentine's Day people will be really lovey-dovey on that particular day and then the rest of the year or the rest of the month it's like all right I don't care about you I'm on my phone I'm busy with work who are you kind of thing right and so it's like really hypocritical because it's like well if you really love the person shouldn't you pretend like every day is Valentine's Day shouldn't you be kind and loving and generous and all that stuff every single day like why on that particular day right it's just a weird concept that's been created by us it's not real it means nothing and the same thing with New Year's it means nothing it's just a day it's a weird random day it means nothing if you don't have to start putting all these labels onto it and start changing everything up just because it's a day do it every single day if you're going to be like alright I'm gonna change my life on January 1st well why wait until January 1st do it right now what day is it just do it now like get up in the morning think that it's your new life begin today begin right now right and you don't want to have to wait for the morning start now whatever you want to do do it now kind of thing right and so I'm sure a lot of people are gonna be like well but it's a special day and you know it's it has meaning behind it and a different kind of energy and all that stuff yeah but I also think a lot of its placebo effect you know you just kind of believe that it's a special day so it has specialness to it if you believe every single day was special it would have specialness to it then as well right so why don't we believe that because I don't know why because I think we we like to make everything mundane and random and ordinary and then we only want to have a specific few days that are special because if every day was special and every day was unordinary then we'd have to live that way and we don't want to live that way we want to live as if every day is mundane and boring and then we have a few smatterings of nice special days that we celebrate or do cool things in and I think the reason I kind of bought this up is also because I read the book by Dan Millman recently that the way of the peaceful warrior and there's a quote from there that's pretty famous I think a lot of people know about it I'm sure you've heard it as well and said something like there are no ordinary moments there are no ordinary moments and just you know as soon as I hear that every single time it gives me gives me goosebumps because literally that's how I want to live my life there are no ordinary moments even here right now that I'm standing here it's an extraordinary moment it's a special moment it's a special day and the same thing could translate to there are no ordinary days there are no ordinary days there are no ordinary moments there are no ordinary days so January 1st is not a special day but it's not an ordinary day either every day is special in its own way every day has its uniqueness every day should be celebrated as if it's a special day every day should be celebrated as if it is January 1st and you're like oh wow if every day with January 1st you do all these amazing things you'd fix all your relationships you'd send out all those letters you would be nice to everyone you'd you'd be loving towards everyone you'd eat delicious food and live life as if it was your last day you know you do all these amazing things well why not every single day right why wait for this one particular day why does that have to be the case why can't we do it right now why not today why not this moment and so if there are no ordinary moments then every moment counts every day counts every moment counts every moment is special even if you're just sitting there staring off into space sitting next to someone that you love bored maybe a little bit but it's still a special moment and you're only bored because you've labeled the moment to be ordinary you've said well you always do this we always sit in front of Netflix and watch TV it's boring we've been doing it for years now for decades now well if you think it's boring it's going to be boring if you label it as ordinary it's going to be ordinary but there are no ordinary moments every moment holds in it the key to the future and every moment it holds the key to greatness to enlightenment to beauty to fabulousness to amazingness you know it holds the key as long as you know how to look at it properly but most of us and I'm including myself in it the kind of we get bored so easily or we pretend like we're bored so easily and then we look at certain moments are like oh yeah this is boring I'm just gonna pretend like I am I'm gonna distract myself from it I'm going to watch Netflix so I'm going to read my manga and I'm gonna pretend like this moment is is I'm gonna make this moment more interesting by doing something else right and I do this a lot when I'm people around people that I love because I don't want to have those conversations with them or I am bored with them or whatever it might be and instead of actually spending time with them in that ordinary moment an ordinary moment I'll pretend like I'm doing something else or I'll distract myself I'll read a manga I'll do something else in order to make the moment interesting but I don't need to do that every moment is special because we have very few of them right I mean a lot of times I try to think and I'm really trying to think of it this way that what if this was the last moment that I have with that person wouldn't it be the most special moment in the world wouldn't it be the most extraordinary moment in the world wouldn't I just be so present what if that was my last moment on earth right what if I was gonna die in that next moment that last moment I would live it like it was the most important moment in the world right and I think that's what Buddhism and a lot of religious tenants try to teach us that yeah you don't know maybe that is you're gonna be your last moment you have no idea when you're gonna die and so treat every moment as if it's special because it is it should be because it's precious it's life you've been given this gift but we don't even use it properly because we're always waiting for that next special moment these are all special moments every moment is special there are no ordinary moments I hope this makes sense to you I just love this topic so much because it's constantly me trying to tell myself there are no ordinary moments there are no ordinary moments it's like I'm trying to create a mantra out of it so that I don't forget even for a second I don't lapse into boringness or into unconsciousness if you have questions about this let me know and I shall do a follow-up video if you have something to share with me I'd love to hear from you I would love to learn from you and again I'm so grateful that you're watching subscribing all of that stuff I'm really really grateful and I shall see you in the next one bye for now

Reviews

Yes. Life happens in The Moments.
I do love New Year's Day. Actually I love the whole month of January!. The Holidays are over and there is time to take a breath and reflect. The days begin to lengthen and that brings hope of Spring. And where I lived most of my life there is usually a January Thaw that is wonderful.... crisp, sunny days!
Some Januaries work out better than others. But for me they begin always with hope and joy!
Thank you Boom. I enjoy your messages.