Life is a pre-paid mobile !
I experienced this fact many times in my life. I keep getting this analogy in my mind again and again. Many people might argue that I am a pessimist. But this fact cannot be ruled out just like that. Every one's life is a like a prepaid mobile with some fixed currency. It is a beautiful mobile with full of SMSs, calls.. incoming calls..outgoing calls only as long as this currency lasts. But interesting part of this fact is that, we will never know how much GOD has loaded in our mobile nor how much is available balance!
We only think that we have been loaded with infinite currency and we spend it senselessly. The very feeling of infinite currency does not allow us to think straight. We do many wrong things..we expect unrealistic things from others.. we yell at each other.. we get angry.. we stop talking to each other, we don’t care for relations.. we just take people for granted. We might even forget to think even other person has ONLY some fixed currency.
All in all, our view on life or perspective on life is not just real. We just take our life for granted. That diminishes our thinking in some or other way. What could have been a careful usage of currency, turns out to be a lavish spending.
Currency here refers to our life time and its beautiful moments and days. At times, apart from spending our own currency, we may end up spending currency of others too.
The no. of days in our life is finite and beautiful moments even more limited. I keep telling all the people I know about this. I still remember when I was working for Syntel, I used to tell all my team mates (Suyash, Muniesh, Priya, Swati, Avanish, Shriveni, Rajesh and many others..) that I am going to complete 10000 days in my life on so and so date! They used to laugh at me saying "stupid fellow, he even calculates how many days he has been alive"!.
Knowingly or unknowingly I used to do such calculations. But today when I look back, I feel this perspective is so true..! We only have so many days and moments in life. Life is so uncertain! A very well performing Senior Project Manager, happy family man may die suddenly die in an accident tomorrow. A top most executive or a top most company , a fitness freak might collapse at the entrance of his gym on a fine morning...an honest govt official might get kidnapped or even killed the next day. We just don’t know what is there in store.
My sincere request to my friends, colleagues, family and all those people whom I know is that, please do not waste your currency, do not spoil a beautiful today for unnecessary reasons. Every day , every is precious for everyone. Live every day and every moment to the fullest and make it more beautiful for you and for others. One fine day when I am in last days, I should be proud and satisfied that I have lived my life correctly to the best possible extent, spent my currency sensibly, I did not waste any of my currency or that of others.
To be little more realistic, even with the best possible equations today, with the best possible health and social conditions, I think I can live up to another 6000 to 7000 days at the most. That way if you see, I guess I have already completed more than 70% of journey. What remains is just only about 28 to 30 % journey. Yaane, only so much currency is available now in my mobile..! I want to ensure that I give my best and this remaining currency is spent sensibly, to give my best to life always, make it more meaningful for me and every co-passenger of my life.
This view of mine may seem to be very negative and pessimistic to others. But this is what keeps me going. I will never take life for granted. Life is very precious for me. I have only so many moments in life. This realization and enlightenment helps me always to give my best in anything I do .I feel satisfied with that. I have tried to apply this realistic view in my life wherever possible . It has worked also.
I don’t know whether I was able to successfully convey and pass on this perspective on life to all of you. But that’s what I believe in always. Coincidentally my mobile connection is also a prepaid connection ! J
Recently I watched one beautiful Hindi movie "Dasvidaaniya", I felt this movie is very close to my thoughts and has been able to convey the message correctly. This is not a lolly-polly , NRI hero and India Heroin kind of movie. It is a very simple, real yet beautiful little movie. The central character of the movie has been essayed extremely well by Vinay Pathak. In the first half at place, you might find it little boring, but it picks up pace in the second half.
It made me really sit back and think and introspect about my own life. It could be due to the fact that I watched it all alone. Watching this movie all alone has been one of the memorable experiences recently for me.
I am not a great book reader, but I believe some movies like this one convey the theme more effectively what many books could not convey in hundreds of pages. If you find time, please watch this movie. It is worth giving a try.
For more details on the movie, please check the following URLs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasvidaniya
Thanks for your time and patience in reading this blog!
11 comments:
It was a nice read. Thanks, Arun. It reminds me an anecdote from Mahabharata, when "yaksha" asks "yudhishtira" what is that which ashtonishes you. He replies back saying - 'though people are dying everyday, one lives as if he is immortal'.
Another way to look at death is from BeeChi's perspective - once somone asked him if he is scared of death. He replied saying 'When I am there Death is not around and when death is there, I am not around'!!
Arun,
Very good work, keep writting more and more and I must say DusVidanya is a very good movie, its from moview Bucket list do watch that also...
I like the comparison Prepaid connection... on similar lines I had a blog post...
http://ramya-chitrana.blogspot.com/2010/05/bye-bye.html
Nice read. Deeds are immortal, end of life is natural.
Nice post Arun...only one point I can add - the prepaid mobile currency is a function of our efforts - God might be the dealer, but we need to put in our effort for the currency. :)
Very true..... each and every moment of life is very precious..... each minute give us some kind of experience..... good or bad... happy or sad.... we should enjoy each moment..... :)
Nice read .. When i saw Dasvidaniya (first time) i also felt the same thing wat you have felt abt the as well as life.Article is nice.I wud say (even i also ve not read many books)with watever knowledge i ve , each movie targets one concept , and is deeply put into your mind/heart wen you get it thru movie form.really Good movie.Keep writing sir.
The article speaks about the retro outlook of the value of life, which is very appreciable. The essence of life and its meaning is conveyed to others in a simple manner. Comparing life with a pre paid connection which comes in with registration to validity and constant recharges, I am reminded of the emotional bank that each one of us creates and finds it difficult to be profitable always. A very well knit thought revolving around this theme excites the reader to walk down the path of one’s life and try press the keys to find the balance. A lot of us might even have given calls to the call center and expected a recharge or a validity extension, some might have been lucky while others not. Arun, your thoughts can make bigger impact while presented on bigger forums, do try for it or at least market this pre paid connection on the social media, who know the next speaking tree is in the formation ?
Very well written and it carries so much of meaning.
Arun,
You have conveyed best message through this post. Yeah we have to make the life to its best.
I watched the movie after going through your blog..its really good.
Thanks Arun for sharing this info. Keep blogging.
-Karanth
You are so true in telling that most of us take our life for granted. We waste so much of currency for silly reasons. Nice you read this post which will make people to think about their life and their priorities once again.
Very thought provoking article ..thanks for sharing ..
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