Sydney Moondra

Nazar mein khwabon ki bijliyan leke chal rahe ho, toh zinda ho tum ZNMD
If you carry your dreams in your eyes, then you are alive.
Im not satisfied if when my head slams the pillow in the evening, sleep does not feel like bliss that has
felt earned. Im fully convinced that sleep is purely for rest and rejuvenation, and the time we spend awake is
the time we must dream actively. For the past several years of my life, the state of boredom seems like a foreign
concept, a disease that has plagued so many of my friends while I remain immune. People constantly try to
comprehend why in the world I would exert myself to such extremes and contribute seemingly unreasonable
amounts of energy and effort to causes that appear to have no direct profit for me. Why do?
Seva.
Service.
Servitude for others not only proves selflessness but I am serving a divine entity in its own- mankind
with all its faults, potential, and virtue. This in itself I have found to be personally gratifying as it fulfills the
instinctive desire that separates us from animals - to follow our conscience- the sole source of our ethics and
morality. Service is cyclic as it can benefit one while the same person may serve to benefit another. Witness of
this very truth nearly brought tears to my eyes, as one day, while shuffling through my plethora of Leadership
Workshop delegate information books, I found one from 2007 which was jam packed; filled with notes on
serving others and how to make simple impacts in my school as the fourth grader I was when I attended that
program seven years before. Looking down on that bound book, I stood as junior in high school in 2012,
serving as a Counselor to that very same program which had quite literally brewed the love I have for student
government today.
Zindagi na Milegi Dobara.
You cant live life twice.
So why even allow myself to relinquish every minute this life has granted me. I fail to recognize how
one is able to let so much slip through ones hands while consciously knowing that there is a ONCE in every
moment with no rewinds or fast forwarding. Without serving, life would be entirely different. As Gandhi once
so appropriately said, The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Much more
than simply discovering myself, I have managed to fabricate a way of living, a mantra in which I will live by for
the rest of my life. So yes, I do. I do for those who cant. I do for those who wont. I do to the best ability
because I, with my two functioning hands and feet, CAN do. I, with a blessed active and sound mind, am ABLE
to do. Thats a gift in itself.
Dilon mein tum apni, Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho, toh zinda ho tum. ZNMD
If you carry eagerness in your heart, then you are alive.