Road to destination... live it

 

I received this forwarded mail and found its thoughts to be one sided. So sharing it along with a try to make it complete

Here is the mail

A boat docked in a tiny Goan village. A Tourist from Mumbai, a MBA guy, complimented the Goan fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them.

"Not very long," answered the fisherman.

"But then, why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?" asked the MBA guy .

The Goan fisherman explained that his small catch was sufficient to meet his needs and those of his family.

The MBA guy asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

"I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, and take a siesta with my wife. In the evenings, I go into the village to see my friends, play guitar, sing a few songs....I have a full life."

The MBA guy interrupted, "I have an MBA from IIM-A, and I can help you!

You should start by fishing longer everyday. You can then sell the extra

fish you catch. With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat."

"And after that?" asked the Goan.

"With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second

one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers.

Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate

directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your own plant. You

can then leave this little village and move to Panjim, or even Mumbai. From

there you can direct your huge new enterprise."

"How long would that take?" asked the Goan.

"Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years," replied the MBA guy .

"And after that?"

"Afterwards? Well my Friend, That's when it gets really interesting,"

chuckled the MBA guy , "When your business gets really big, you can start

selling stocks and make millions!"

"Millions? Really? And after that?" asked the Goan.

"After that you'll be able to retire, live in a tiny village near the

coast, sleep late, play with your children, catch a few fish, take a siesta

with your wife and spend your evenings doing what you like with your

buddies."

"With all due respect sir, but that's exactly what I am doing now. So

what's the point wasting 25 years?" asked the Goan.

This is where the mail ended

But I felt what could have the MBA guy  answered

So lets hear it too                

The MBA guy said

Its not about resting in a village or spending 'free' evenings that matter at end of life. You can do it at any time although. Its the way you live your life. Its the road and not the destination that matters, because once the destination is reached there is no road to walk on. And this is the most stagnant area of life. So then you will ask should I never reach the destination. The answer is no. Do reach the destination, say yes I did it, enjoy it for a while and then set your next destination. The moment you will stop doing that, you will lose the reason to live

This works for me. Hope you will enjoy it too

ajun kahi charolya

दूर गेल्या शिवाय
जवळ येता येत नाही
प्रेमात पडल्या शिवाय
वेडं होता येत नाही


वयात आल्यावर प्रेम कवितांशिवाय
दुसरा काही सुचत नाही
माणसात आल्यावर त्या कवितांवर
हसण्याशिवाय दुसरा काही उरत नाही


जग धावत असले तरी
मला धावण्यात रस नाही
चालत सुद्धा जिंकता येत असताना
धावण्याची मला हौस नाही

देवाची इच्छा असेल तर
माणूस उचलला जायला वेळ लागत नाही
पण यमाची इच्छा नसेल तर
साधं मरण सुद्धा गवसत नाही

तुझ्यासोबत...तुझ्यासोबतीने.........

तुला एकट सोडून
मी कधी जाणार नाही
कितीही पावसाच्या सारी पडल्या तरी
दवबिंदूला हरवू देणार नाही

पुढे जाताना
मागे वळून बघणार नाही
पण तुला बरोबर घेतल्या शिवाय
पुढे पाऊल टाकणार नाही

पुढच्या जन्मासाठी पुण्य कमावण्यात
या जन्मी वेळ घालवणार नाही
"चार दिनो कि जिंदगी" मध्ये
कुठलाही थेंब एकटा पिणार नाही

मारण्याची वेळ आलीच
तर एकट तुला सोडणार नाही
कारण आपण वेगळं झालो तर
आपल्या अस्तित्वालाच अर्थ उरणार नाही

- आशिष शेवाळे


ही कविता पहिल्यांदा वाचताना प्रियकर-प्रेयसीच्या प्रेमाची वाटते
पण जर हीच कविता माझ्या जगण्याने, life ने, माझ्यासाठी लिहिली आहे असे समजून वाचली तर नवीन अर्थ समोर येईल

Life, How to live… decision is yours

When people talk about life they try to get philosophical because they feel that’s the only way to understand the life. But they forget one thing, no one is interested in understanding what’s life but everyone is interested in how to live it

So without getting philosophical, as its IPL season, let me write in cricket way

Lets say life, of the world as a whole, is a cricket match, maybe a twenty 20, then we all are the part of this match

Now when there is a cricket match, different components of it would have to be considered like from the players, audience, match managers, media, camera-man to even person selling cold drinks to audience.

Everyone here does his/her job for only one thing to survive.

No one can comment on which job is better as everyone is in a job. So, all should be considered equal. But we don’t accept it, isn’t it. A person in audience believes hat he’s better than person selling cold drinks while a player believe that he’s better than person sitting in audience chair. Everyone’s life is exciting and new. Let’s talk about player here.

When a player comes on the playground it’s like his one time chance to prove himself that whatever he has practiced all these years isn’t waste. Even we in life get such rare moments to prove ourselves.

Now our player, Mr. A is on strike and is going to face the bowler. He doesn’t know what type of ball, a short-pitch, full toss or even a beamer, he will have to face. Whatever it is he has to play it. Even we in our life seldom know what we are going to face the very next moment so cannot make ourselves always ready. It’s always the skill at last minute, the skill which we have gained through practice for the whole life and here is the time to use it.

Now there will be two results when Mr. A faces the bowl. Either he plays it, maybe hit a six, or he gets out, maybe clean bowled. If he hits a six, audience will give a huge round of applause. If he is out audience will wait for next man to come on strike.

The truth to be understood, either way match doesn’t ends when player is out of match, only his place is taken by somebody else.

The match goes on till eternity

The only thing that we can do is give our best and live, not survive, life fully considering this is the last moment of our life and we won’t get this chance again.

माझ्या काही चारोळ्या

जमत नाही आता तुझ्यावीण जगणं
डोळ्यांना तुला बघण्यापासून तरसवण
मनातल्या इच्छांना घालता येत कुंपण
पण कसं शक्य आहे प्रेमाच्या सागराला आवरणं


माझ्या मनात जेव्हा पाखरू बनून तू उडतेस
माझ्या मनातल्या प्रत्येक फुलाला कसा तुझा सुगंध देतेस

तुला बघत असताना भान माझे हरपून जाते
तुझी कळी खुललेली पाहून जग माझे फुलून जाते


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