Life… is all about the choices we make

We are all drowned in the hustle-bustle around us that we don’t have time for ourselves, forget family and friends… In today’s competitive world, most of us want to be the independent working professional and make sure that we are not left behind in the rat race!! We are all in the game… a game of name and fame!! We all want a better house, a bigger car, a fatter salary and eventually a better life than our relatives & friends… these are the benchmarks in our lives since ever!! Since the time we are born… we keep comparing… comparing ourselves with all that we have and what more could we have…

When we were kids we wanted better toys… when we started going to school, we wanted better books, lunch, etc… when we were adolescents we wanted better pocket-money, clothes etc… When we started going to college, we wanted better and more friends, privacy, freedom… when we started working, we wanted a better designation and salary… when we got married, we wanted better husband and in-laws, when we got kids, we wanted them to be better than anybody else’s kids, to be the best in academics etc… all this while we kept struggling to give a better life to our families, to make sure that they get the best of both the worlds! Now when we have grown old, here, we are sitting all alone and wondering what do we have better today?

But have we ever thought about what all have we left behind in search of a better tomorrow… the answer is TODAY!!! At the cost of our family & friends do we win the game of name & fame!! It is all about the choices we make in life… do we choose to sit back and relax for a while and spend some quality time with the family? Or we choose to continue being a part of the great gamble called life!! Do we enjoy our present or we keep running behind our unknown and unforeseen future? Do we take time to enjoy the little things in life? Are we there with the family in their tough times, to support them? Do we enjoy innocence & laughter of our kids? Do we reach out to our old parents and make them happy by our little gestures of love & care? Do we keep in touch with our old friends whom we have lost somewhere on the way to success? Err… I am not looking for any answers here… all we need to do is a little bit of soul searching… how true are we to ourselves and to the people around us whom we love the most…

This is the irony of life!! Generations after generations have been committing the same mistake, not a mistake but a huge blunder and by the time realization comes, it’s too late!! We run through life and not live life the way we want to and one day we realize that life itself has outlived us!!

Life goes on… work goes on... and it will always go on... but precious are little moments which will never come back in life... we live them only once… only once… in a lifetime!

There is only one life and we get to live it only once!! It's a call all of us have to keep taking... time and again... a choice that we have to make...

So have you made the right choice today?