What makes you feel good? – is it the successful career which will bring lots of money? Is it the feeling that you will reach a respectable position? Is it the institute tags which you have acquired over the years? Each individual has different opinion on this question. Someone is ready to work for 15-16 hours to make money as much as possible. Someone wants to have a respectable position in a job for which he/she is ready to trade-off with money. Someone wants to start his own venture to be independent.
Since childhood, we have only learnt to succeed in every competition. The life has become a rat race, where we have become selfish, arrogant, and unemotional money vending machines. Relationships to us have become a duty to be followed. We have lost the essence of parents shouting at us for our wrong doings; even parents feel that ‘my son/daughter is well educated and knows everything. So, we can’t teach him/her anything now’.
When in trouble, most of us seek help from virtual world. The virtual world has become an integral part of life. We smile, cry, show anger etc using emoticons. We feel happy to see our beloved ones over web cam/in digital photos. We have lost the touch and feel of being together.
We have gradually lost the true essence of being happy. We can’t meet /attend our family as we are tied up with tight time schedule; this extends from months to years. Most of us have missed the first steps of our nephew/niece. We have missed the weddings of our best friends. We have missed most of the family gatherings. We know how to invest in market to gain maximum return, but we have forgotten to invest maximum time with family. We know what cuisine is available in which restaurant, but we have gradually lost the sense of satisfaction in mom’s food.
Is this the success what we wanted?
