How often do we postpone an activity in our personal life.
Be it vacation, purchase of a car,
purchase of a house, pursuing a hobby, going to a gym, stop drinking etc. We
normally tend to postpone it to the future. Instead what do we do, continue to
slog like a donkey, chase money and stock them or grow them (if you are wise
& lucky), burn yourself out and miss out of all the pleasures in life. You
also end up neglecting your family, not being with your children when they need
most, burn up and neglect your health and end up a vegetable.
Suddenly you wake up one day and say to your self “What am I
doing, where am I going !!!”. Its too late and when you are ready to enjoy the
fruits of labor, you realize you cant really enjoy. You don't have the energy,
you don't have the health (hypertension, diabetes, acidity, fatigue, arthritis,
anxiety, depression etc), your children have grown up and wont have time for
you, you have emotionally moved a long distance from your spouse and lost out
the ability to relax, sit back and enjoy life.
We assume that we are all going to live upto 90 years and
healthy and a happy one. We take our life for granted or in our anxiety to save
for the retired life we miss out on enjoying our productive part of life. We
rarely live for today. We generally live for tomorrow.
A colleague of mine was living a normal life and attending
to work till about a couple of months ago. Suddenly he disappeared from office
and were told that he is sick. He had developed persistent fever and later on diagnosed
with blood cancer. In a span of 8 weeks he died. The sad part of it, he was
only 37 years old. I remember he used to slog it out in office, sitting late,
working 6 days a week and hardly on leave. All of a sudden he is no more.
Recently another colleague of mine who was Heading a very noble
Function, aged around 42 years was attending a Training program and collapsed
during the program. He was rushed to the Hospital but of no use. He passed away
leaving behind a home maker and wonderful daughter.
Another friend of mine is around 40 years old and is heading
a Business Unit of a large Multinational Company in India, earning a huge
salary, globe trotting and in a enviable position (in the eyes of the society).
He used to slog day and night, Saturdays and really stretched himself far to
reach this position. When he is ready to enjoy the fruits of labor, he is
restricted because he has developed diabetes, acidity, starting to grow bald,
diminishing eyesight, showing signs of arthritis and living a life full of
restrictions. He is a typical example of
When I have the TIME, I don’t have the MONEY
When I have the MONEY, I don’t have the TIME
When I have MONEY & TIME, I don’t have HEALTH to enjoy
Its easier said than done. When do we put a full stop, when
do we pull the string, when do we say “its time” before it becomes “time up”.
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