Someone just sent me an email which is an excerpt from the speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis. What struck me most about this speech was the fact that in 50 years we have just about 2500 weekends and we get so worked up during our life that we forget to make most of these weekends. So I started calculating how many weekends I have lost… How many have YOU lost?
The excerpt is as follows…
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 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.
One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.
"Don't be serious, be sincere."
Start Enjoying from moment................
In Mumbai (maybe everywhere) a new car will always be sold with thin plastic sheets on the seats and till the time it actually tears on its own, no one removes them. Inspite of spending about INR 5000/- for the special seat covers…they still actually sit on plastic sheet!!! Why?????
Ever notice while waiting for an elevator…how impatient people press both the buttons for the elevator to go up as well as go down…I sometimes wonder whether they are actually ignorant or simply foolish to do such a thing. As if pressing the ‘down’ button will make the elevator come down to this floor and take them ‘up’. In any case that is not going to happen so why simply delay the process and get worked up further. Another thing I have noticed is that they keep pressing the call button numerous times…as if the elevator which is on another floor will kick out the people and come down specially for them!! Crazy…God give them patience…but please hurry!!
