Everyone wants to live longer and plenty are the books and other such materials that interpret on the ways to live longer. In Dan Buettner’s book, The Blue Zones: Lesson for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, he mentioned 9 common traits amongst people from across the world, who lead a lengthy happy life.                                                                                                               A life full of love and purpose can be deemed a happy life. The most important thing is to manage our emotions along with emotions of people we are concerned about. To manage our parent’s/spouse’s emotions, may be our pet dog’s. A good formula of maintaining a life in this way, as Dan refers in his book, is harmony. Maintaining harmony between our personal and professional life can be a big task when there is a race out there to win or to survive. Stop! Listen up! Is any one calling? May be it’s you who subconsciously wants to relax while rushing to your work. May be you want to talk your heart out to your lover/spouse, may be you want to take your loved ones out to their favorite restaurant. Don’t do it in the next free time because you may have few, try and ensure your time out for such things.  A life full of love and purpose can be deemed a good life.                                                                                             Imagine, if we are alone and we go to our school 50 years after passing out of it and no one recognizes us. It would be quite strange feeling, if the school has been part of our happy memories. We may lead a long life but, if there is no recognition then it may not be counted  Do we want to run the green mile all alone?                                                                       A purposeful life makes us feel fulfilled within ourselves. A life dedicated to our profession, society and in later years, to our kids makes it all enjoyable and worthwhile.Just imagine George Washington or Marlon Brando coming back to life. I bet, they would be overwhelmed to know that they manage to sail across the physical barrier of time through living a purposeful life.  If we give ourselves some time, we all will manage to put things together in our own way. Life is all about managing emotions and about priorities and giving time to each as they demand.                                                                                                                   

 Jeanne Calment,

                                               world's longest living woman