Well, they asked why you want to move to smaller town as there would be no experience for you??
He replied “Gautam Buddha got his experience in jungle so I might get mine in smaller town"
They took it seriously and sent him from land of opportunities Mumbai, to land of liberation where 40 Mukta got liberated, Muktsar. From a land of 24 hour electricity supply to a land which on some days gets only 24 minutes of electricity. That led him to a realization that man is never aware of what he has been blessed with, till the time he loses that thing; till then we feel it is our right and always keep on cribbing of want we don’t have and others might have. He realized that he had never thanked god during his stay in Mumbai - for 24 hour electricity, and for many other blessings which he might be aware or unaware of, but kept on cribbing about non-understanding boss or requested god to fulfill his other material desires ASAP or before any one in his peer could achieve it and the list goes on………I am sure it would be the same for every one???
As its' difficult or impossible to predict high and low in stock market, same it is in life; the moment one feels he is happy or doing great it can be the moment of all time high which may not come again, and the moment one feels he has not made it in life, it might be just the end of low time / challenging time which one may not face again and, would be proud of surviving that difficult time throughout his life.
The beauty of life is that one needs to live it as it unfolds, second by second and things will happen when they are supposed to happen. The choice is with us - to spend time waiting for things to happen by cribbing or by preparing ourselves for the challenges of future.
Someone once said “Chance favours the prepared mind” so one should spend the not so good time preparing for the good time as one doesn’t know when the good time will start.
And the biggest evil of all is comparison with the entire world around us. We can keep the locus of our life attached to entire world and not to ourself….We always keep on comparing ourselves with people with whom we studied, worked or who were our counterparts in some walk of life without knowing it might be the best time of that person's life and that our good time is yet to come or giving thought to what all challenges that person might have faced in his life. Comparison cannot be in isolation or in one aspect; it has to be in totality as one cannot compare apples with oranges.
In my opinion we all are unique who cannot be compared to one another. Society doesn't need one kind of people only, rather it needs people from different walks of life. Though we all would like to be Ambani, Tatas…… but as a matter of fact, society does not need so many Ambanis or Tatas…… There will always be handful of them. Can we spend our entire life in comparison to Ambanis, Tata……..??? And be unhappy? Rather, we should come out of the business of comparison and attach the locus of our life to our SELF and to what makes us happy and thank god for his blessings. I am sure, it will lead to happiness from Mumbai to Muktsar and a happier society…………..
He replied “Gautam Buddha got his experience in jungle so I might get mine in smaller town"
They took it seriously and sent him from land of opportunities Mumbai, to land of liberation where 40 Mukta got liberated, Muktsar. From a land of 24 hour electricity supply to a land which on some days gets only 24 minutes of electricity. That led him to a realization that man is never aware of what he has been blessed with, till the time he loses that thing; till then we feel it is our right and always keep on cribbing of want we don’t have and others might have. He realized that he had never thanked god during his stay in Mumbai - for 24 hour electricity, and for many other blessings which he might be aware or unaware of, but kept on cribbing about non-understanding boss or requested god to fulfill his other material desires ASAP or before any one in his peer could achieve it and the list goes on………I am sure it would be the same for every one???
As its' difficult or impossible to predict high and low in stock market, same it is in life; the moment one feels he is happy or doing great it can be the moment of all time high which may not come again, and the moment one feels he has not made it in life, it might be just the end of low time / challenging time which one may not face again and, would be proud of surviving that difficult time throughout his life.
The beauty of life is that one needs to live it as it unfolds, second by second and things will happen when they are supposed to happen. The choice is with us - to spend time waiting for things to happen by cribbing or by preparing ourselves for the challenges of future.
Someone once said “Chance favours the prepared mind” so one should spend the not so good time preparing for the good time as one doesn’t know when the good time will start.
And the biggest evil of all is comparison with the entire world around us. We can keep the locus of our life attached to entire world and not to ourself….We always keep on comparing ourselves with people with whom we studied, worked or who were our counterparts in some walk of life without knowing it might be the best time of that person's life and that our good time is yet to come or giving thought to what all challenges that person might have faced in his life. Comparison cannot be in isolation or in one aspect; it has to be in totality as one cannot compare apples with oranges.
In my opinion we all are unique who cannot be compared to one another. Society doesn't need one kind of people only, rather it needs people from different walks of life. Though we all would like to be Ambani, Tatas…… but as a matter of fact, society does not need so many Ambanis or Tatas…… There will always be handful of them. Can we spend our entire life in comparison to Ambanis, Tata……..??? And be unhappy? Rather, we should come out of the business of comparison and attach the locus of our life to our SELF and to what makes us happy and thank god for his blessings. I am sure, it will lead to happiness from Mumbai to Muktsar and a happier society…………..
