The poem I want to share with you is when I was growing up, my dad took out this poem and he translated it from Sanskrit into English. And it was a poem from the Bengali poet, Rabindranath TaGore.
And allow me to share it with you. It simply said “Spring has passed. Summer has gone. And winter is here… and the song I meant to sing remains unsung. For I’ve spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.”
And my brother and I used to look at it every morning before we’d go off to school, but I never. really understood it. And so when I got a little older, I said, “Dad, you know that poem, you had on our refrigerator door, what was that all about?” And my dad looked at me and he said, “Robin, that was a poem written by a man whose heart was filled with regret over a life, half lived.” He said, “Robin, that was a poem written by a man who postponed his life. He always wanted to do something special. He always wanted to do important work. He always wanted to be loving in the world. He always wanted to be creative. He always wanted to see the world, but he got busy being busy.”
Are you being busy, being busy? Have you lost that connection to the life you wanted to live when you were a little kid? Are you so busy stringing your instrument, that the song that your life was meant to sing has died or is dormant within you? And my challenge to you is simply this, to do whatever it takes before you sleep tonight, to reconnect with the best within you, that you may have lost. Because one of the things I’ve noticed is this, there are too many amongst us walking the planet today, who are sort of in a waking sleep. They have lost a sense of who they truly are. And your life will never work if there’s a huge space between who you truly are and the person you know you’re meant to be. Your life will never be flooded with energy, creativity, productivity, and happiness if there is a large space between your life right now and your unlived life. And my request, and encouragement, and challenge to you is truly that you make things happen so that the person you are starting tomorrow is more of who you know you truly are.