"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. ………………."
I read these lines today and wanted to share them with you. These are limes from a speech made my Chetan Bhagat.
The thing that made me read these lines once again was the fact that the idea he was discussing is quite the opposite to the attitude of the times that we are studying and working in. The emphasis is on being the very best. Academically excellent and stategically brilliant at our careers. We all enter this rat race knowing what we what in the end and what we have to give us to acheive that.
And here is a person , one of the many, who once again reminds us the exhorbitant prices we pay for our 'success' in terms of personal and physical ends. It is ironic that we have more people today who have to remind us that we need to work at our relationships than our books. More people who will recomment stress relieving workshops than those who will advise for academic programmes.
I am caught in this trap, are you?
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Very true! I think most, if not all of us, are caught in this trap- partially or entirely...
ReplyDeleteyou know when we were young there was a saying in bengali which roughly translates as "those who study hard will go on to have BADI(house) and GADI(car)" and then leaves it some what unclear about the destiny of those who WONT STUDY HARD!...presumably the fate was too distressing to be spelled out!
ReplyDeleteno body talked about LIFE SKILLS then or even EQ...health was taken for granted ( anyway medical sciences are getting better and better!) and relationships even more so( where will family members/friends go anyway??!!)
so ,we, a generation before you, can only run after success...we are not yet talking about the price....just are too busy making sure that we don't FAIL!!
this is another way of looking at what you said sehba!!