21st December 2009
Life is like a game of rummy!
To choose time is to save time.
Have you played rummy? If you have, you will understand this analogy. In a game of rummy, you receive and discard cards. If you get a card that you need, you keep it and discard the one you don't need. Once you have all the cards that you need and it makes a set, you quit and score a point over the others. Life is very similar to this game!
Day and in day out, we pick up various activities and at a point of time, you feel stifled and very tight. You don't know what to do and what not to do. You try to manage all the activities within the time and in the process struggle. If you do not get enough time, you sacrifice your evening, hobby, holiday and leisure.
In a game of rummy there are only 13 cards and you don't have a choice to increase this number just because you need a particular card. The rules of the game will not permit the same. You need to manage all your cards within this fixed number which is uniform to all. In the same way, you have only 24 hours in a day and it is uniform to all. You have no choice to alter this! You have to manage all your activities within this quota of time! If you want to pursue an activity which you cannot fit in within the time available, you have to delete some other activity to accommodate the one which you want to pursue.
You cannot say that you want to exercise half an hour a day, but you cannot sacrifice sleep. You cannot say that you want to pursue higher education, but at the same time spend a lot of time in the club socializing with your friends. You have to decide which activity you need to continue in your daily routine and which activity you need to discontinue.
In life we have to accept the principle: you cannot have the cake and eat it too.
During this week end, set aside some time to think about this principle and decide the content of your day.
N
000
Posts
