Despite a complete clarity of what we have to be in life, what is our passion that drives us towards the success of life, what we like and dislike, what is right or wrong, for that matter, each and every minute aspect of our life… but, did we ever try to answer the root because that is the ‘Life’ itself? Whenever we try to atleast answer the same, we end up in endless thoughts, completely in lost state of mind. We tend to get all that philosophy, psychology and diplomatic thoughts in our thought process and in many cases, give a conclusion that ‘let us take the life as it comes’…

Yes, life is full of surprises and unforeseen incidents. You never know or cannot anticipate the next moment in many situations of your life. So, you would strive to achieve your aims and meet the ambitions set by you in this uncertain life itself. Good to you. In addition to this let us read a story that talks much about ‘life’ as such;

‘Father was a hardworking man who delivered bread as a living to support his wife and three children. He spent all his evenings after work attending classes, hoping to improve himself so that he could one day find a better paying job. Except for Sundays, Father hardly ate a meal together with his family. He worked and studied very hard because he wanted to provide his family with the best money could buy.

Whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. But he often yearned to spend more time with his family.

The day came when the examination results were announced. To his joy, Father passed, and with distinctions too! Soon after, he was offered a good job as a senior supervisor which paid handsomely.

Like a dream come true, Father could now afford to provide his family with life’s little luxuries like nice clothing, fine food and vacation abroad.

However, the family still did not get to see father for most of the week. He continued to work very hard, hoping to be promoted to the position of manager. In fact, to make himself a worthily candidate for the promotion, he enrolled for another course in the open university.

Again, whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. But he often yearned to spend more time with his family.

Father’s hard work paid off and he was promoted. Jubilantly, he decided to hire a maid to relieve his wife from her domestic tasks. He also felt that their three-room flat was no longer big enough, it would be nice for his family to be able to enjoy the facilities and comfort of a condominium. Having experienced the rewards of his hard work many times before, Father resolved to further his studies and work at being promoted again. The family still did not get to see much of him. In fact, sometimes Father had to work on Sundays entertaining clients. Again, whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. But he often yearned to spend more time with his family.

As expected, Father’s hard work paid off again and he bought a beautiful condominium overlooking the coast of Singapore. On the first Sunday evening at their new home, Father declared to his family that he decided not to take anymore courses or pursue any more promotions. From then on he was going to devote more time to his family.

Father did not wake up the next day’.

There are many stories or for that matter the day to day experiences we see and face that insist us to stop and think where we are running, for what are we striving, and where all these would take us. Also we think where our real happiness does is… well, in many cases it is when we not just manage but handle both our personal and professional life, be responsible and be happy, fast enough to grab the opportunities that make your career and life grow at the same time calm and composed to peacefully spend quality time with your loved ones, tough enough to get the work done and patient enough to sort out things.

And all these balance of life is not is not so easy to attain… work and work till you succeed. After all, you are inventing the most adventurous path, ‘LIFE’!

SunayanaVinay Kumar