Recently I read an article. Between the lines, it passed a very strong message of how short the life is. The article was about making a balance in life, giving time to family and loved ones because "having a promotion on the day of your break up is not enjoyable" and so on.. It was discouraging the idea of working stressfully on the weekdays and giving time to the family *only* on the weekends. It very objectively said, if you live say more 50 years from now then, its just 2600 weekends in your life left. So make a balance and live each day fully. Okay, the message is very ordinary which we hear often. But I must say, I had never seen so direct measurement of my life and visualise the end of the life in few hundred weeks time. This is directly related to mortality.
A few days later, a thought on Indian Vedic Ashram System came to my mind. More objectively the third stage "Vanaprasthashram". Most of the above-average-ambitious people think to achieve a goal for their life or professional life (more suitable here) and they think, after that they would like to get settled and take it easy with life. Ambition is a very good virtue and mostly the success is driven by an ambition. But ambition is quite dangerous as well. How? You will know in a minute. Now lets talk about over-ambition. The problem with over-ambitious people is, most of the time what they had tried to achieve, sooner or later they could achieve. And that's how they had become over-ambitious from being ambitious. Nobody is born over-ambitious, its a gradual transformation from being ambitious. Now here is the catch, for them, finding a new height in the life is not difficult and most of the time they know, they can do it and how. This becomes a loop and they find joy in it even though at some point their family stops enjoying it. Naturally, time flies and finally, how much does it take for a weekend to pass when you are chasing a longer goal (may be one after another). These people start noticing harm in this when their body starts to show them the age.
Now let me relate this to Saturation. Saturation from life. This is a feeling of relief in life. Which in Hindi is called "Santripti".
For example,
Situation 1: You just have drunk two glasses of water and somebody told you that there is no water in the world for 2 hours.
Situation 2: You are damn thirsty and somebody told you that there is no water in the world for 2 hours.
Yes, this is as simple as that. The over-ambitious people mostly find themselves in the Situation 2. Many people just get settled and start enjoying life. Why some people desire immortality so much? Because they are thirsty. They did not have enough water before water was gone. If you have had enough water already, you really don't care about water and that's the ideal situation. I think the worst case can be "dying thirsty". I think the whole point of Vanaprasthashram is to make you drink enough water and minimize the probability of dying thirsty to almost zero. So, don't forget to drink enough water!
A few days later, a thought on Indian Vedic Ashram System came to my mind. More objectively the third stage "Vanaprasthashram". Most of the above-average-ambitious people think to achieve a goal for their life or professional life (more suitable here) and they think, after that they would like to get settled and take it easy with life. Ambition is a very good virtue and mostly the success is driven by an ambition. But ambition is quite dangerous as well. How? You will know in a minute. Now lets talk about over-ambition. The problem with over-ambitious people is, most of the time what they had tried to achieve, sooner or later they could achieve. And that's how they had become over-ambitious from being ambitious. Nobody is born over-ambitious, its a gradual transformation from being ambitious. Now here is the catch, for them, finding a new height in the life is not difficult and most of the time they know, they can do it and how. This becomes a loop and they find joy in it even though at some point their family stops enjoying it. Naturally, time flies and finally, how much does it take for a weekend to pass when you are chasing a longer goal (may be one after another). These people start noticing harm in this when their body starts to show them the age.
Now let me relate this to Saturation. Saturation from life. This is a feeling of relief in life. Which in Hindi is called "Santripti".
For example,
Situation 1: You just have drunk two glasses of water and somebody told you that there is no water in the world for 2 hours.
Situation 2: You are damn thirsty and somebody told you that there is no water in the world for 2 hours.
Yes, this is as simple as that. The over-ambitious people mostly find themselves in the Situation 2. Many people just get settled and start enjoying life. Why some people desire immortality so much? Because they are thirsty. They did not have enough water before water was gone. If you have had enough water already, you really don't care about water and that's the ideal situation. I think the worst case can be "dying thirsty". I think the whole point of Vanaprasthashram is to make you drink enough water and minimize the probability of dying thirsty to almost zero. So, don't forget to drink enough water!
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