Missing the important things in life

Times go by, like the wind breeze touching across your cheeks and sending a chill in the rim of your outer ear in a fine summer evening. Well, you were 8 and you were small. You could run around the garden all evenings and meet friends and play cricket till your legs got tired. You became 15 and the 'reality' of life dawns upon you. You want to become significant in the world of things. In the world of entities, you want to be known, be called as the just, the enduring and occupy a special place. You enter the education age. The 16-25 when you constantly studying, promising yourself that you will grow up one day. You will grow up to own a car, grow up to buy your parents tickets to a world tour. Grow up and make yourself secure. Make yourself stable and worthy of getting married. You then come near the 30s. So fast... You were just 8 yesterday!!! What is this life for? You ask. Is it to get married, to have kids, to roam places every once a year when you can afford a vacation amidst the tooth-knitting work that never ends? There is so much motivation , so much of positivity to perform, so much of zeal to contribute to this world... But what has anyone ever done to the betterment of this universe. All the mankind, we think every minutes of our work, counts. Either for the betterment of a company, or for a sub-section of the society; or at least for the accumulation of personal property.But in the deepest of your heart, you know. You know that it is all a game. It is a game where you play fair, you act diligent and then you pass on the baton. So, what is the takeaway of all this gibberish reminiscience. Have I improved over time. Was the game well played. Well, that is an easy one to answer. Let me do it for you. Did you have fun all along, that is the question you need to ask. We, humans, have traversed the short period of earth time and very long period of mankind from burning the first stick to create fire to creating our own concrete hyper-jungles. As all big management gurus keep telling once a while, also be a spectator, not only a completely immersed hyper-active player in the various games that you are part of in the sequence of life. You are an employer of the company, contribute to eat; to earn your bread. Be motivated to give your best, but don;t burn yourself. The more you place yourself in the hotseat, the more you are burning yourself. And finally, in your yonder years, once a tiny smirk will come up your face when you realize the answer to the rhetoric -" Was it all worth it??" So now, coming back to the topic of the post, missing the important things in life... Many a times, we take decision. We do a lot of sacrifice. We push ourselves to the best of our capabilities. The questions, often keeps posing in our minds are: 'Is it worth it', 'Am I worth it', 'Can I do it', 'What it is meaning of whatever I do' and 'Is this the best thing for me'. Well, I have a steady state response for it, my friend. Remember it, and remember it well. For all those things you have forgone, for the troubles, for the stress, for the learning that keep piling up your brain like an over-stuffs library shelf; remember my friend, 'Make it count'. Make it count and use your stuff to your advantage. Learn, enjoy, contribute and never doubt yourself. You don't even know what you are capable of. Make wise decisions, get more smart and rise above everything. And alas, while having fun rising constantly through the intermittent turmoil, 'viola'; you have reached the plateau. You have achieved things you hadn't even imagined you could have achieved all your life. The important things you missed were not for vain after all. Hence, the endurance, hence the penance, hence the fun of life as it is given by God.