Vital!!

"Is the world a better place to live because I do what I do for a living?" I think this is a very important question every single person needs to ask himself or herself,and see if we like the answer we get. If we all took time to really find answer to this simple question, I believe with all my heart that this world will be a better place to live in.

I think many of us spend more time planning for 'urlawk zan' (christmas eve) or 'kumhlui thlah zan' party than we do planning our lives. I've come to realize that I took the LIVE FOR THE MOMENT theme much too seriously than I should. A very good excuse to do what I want to do,moments when I deceive my senses,tell them - 'its ok',this moment may not come again. In the process,I wasted a lot of precious time doing things which should not have been given priority over another. I dont mean to say we should be ultra-careful about each and every thing we do,or alway delay doing things because a better timing may be later. What I want to say is that ( I wish I had known this earlier) - it is a good idea to sit down once in a while and really wrack our brains and strategically plot out what we really want to do in life. This is where the above statement should come in. Do we want to help people? Or be super-rich... zillionaire perhaps ? GOD has blessed us the ability to think,we are definitely capable of finding out where we want to go and how to get there.

When we dont know what we want, its likely that we'll end up in a place where we feel we dont belong. If we know,what is our basic aim in life, even if we're not there at once, we will always find ways to get there,one way or the other.

There is a term, I recently read in a book called the Big Picture by Dr. Ben Carson MD ( I am big fan, I have all his books).. called DELAYED GRATIFICATION... There is this illustration about the cool guys in high school and the nerds... the cool guys in school are the ones with the latest fashion,the girls, the conversation, the jokes and they are basically the right crowd to hang out with. They know all about the latest blockbuster movies and the latest songs and bands. While the nerds are the ones hauling around 20 kgs of books, wear thick glasses and the popular girls wouldnt be caught dead talking to them. Fast forward 10 years, the cool guy's working in a local shop because he never got past high school. While the nerd got into college,got a high paying job with a good company,got contact lenses and the money to pay for designer clothes. He's got a car. So what happens is - all the girls want to know the nerd better. Nobody remembers the cool guy anymore. Role reversal. Delayed gratification.

The average life span in the world would be around around 70 - 75 years. In India, I think about 65-70 years. If we are wise, we would have settled in for what we planned for by the time we are 25 years, we have the next 45-50 years to reap the fruit of our hard work. But if we are not, then we have that much time to suffer the consequences of our doing.

Far too many of us spend our time aimlessly. The hippie slogan of Going where the wind blows' may look very stress-free and cool for our present generation. But the opening statement confers otherwise. We need to plan our lives, even if it means we do go once in a while,opposite to where the wind is blowing, to make this world a better place for others to live in.