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The Busiest Person On The Planet

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Nizar Ali Virani
ENGL 1101
Section 14
Everyone
A New Perspective You are the busiest person on the planet. It’s a fact. I could show you the schedule of who the world would assume to be the busiest person, but the assumption would be false. You have things to do, people to meet, plans to complete. I could tell you that my entire day is full from the crack of dawn to the smallest hours on the morning, but in reality, you would still be the busiest person in the world. The human brain never stops working. Non-stop: 25 hours a day, 8 days, 366 days in a year. That’s right; you brain works so much that I had to create more time to ease the pressure. There isn’t a single moment of the day when there isn’t something running through your head. …show more content…

More than a thousand years ago, a man by the name of Siddhartha Gautama walked out of his massive palace and took abode under a tree. For years, he searched for an answer, and it turns out it was within him the entire time. He let go of everything that was holding him down, attaching him to the world, and realized the bigger meaning of life. Obviously, living in the 21st century, we can’t just leave our work, family, and obligations to try and find Enlightenment. So the question arises, how can we become the modern Buddha? Is it even worth the effort? I believe that even a little mindfulness can change a person for the better and create a better world for everyone to live in. Mindfulness is seen as something that the monks in Tibet or the pundits in India do. Even with the growing trend of meditation in the Western culture, it’s not something that is openly accepted by many people as a tool to bettering themselves. What exactly is mindfulness? The University of California, Berkeley describes it as such: “Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment” (Berkeley.edu). They state that being mindful increases connectivity, not only to outside settings, but to sensations within one’s own body. They further state that being mindful increases

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