1st June 2012
`Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell people how much they mean to you'
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If you want to know the value of any resource, you need to know how much of the resource was available and how much is the balance. When the fuel gauge shows near empty, you become very careful in the use of the car. One hundred rupees is not the same in the beginning of the month and at the end of the month!
So is the case with time, the invisible and scarce resource. When people are with us, we don't know how much dear is their presence. We will know it only when they are gone.
Try this exercise. If you have a daughter or son who is going to leave you for higher studies or after marriage, calculate the number of weekends you have before their leaving. For example, if they will be leaving you in a year from now, you will have fifty two weekends before they are gone. Buy fifty two marbles and put it into a glass jar. Remove one marble every weekend and ask yourself if you have spent a quality time with them during that weekend!
Notice what happens to the quality of your relationship as the number of marbles in the glass jar comes down!
Somewhere I read a very touching poem on relationship, and I will send you in my next newsletter!
N C Sridharan
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