Winning is measured in terms of what we achived during race

21^st century life has become so competitive everyone is in hurry.

Speed will make you win the race but loose the happiness of enjoying life. In childhood we have heard story of Tortoise and rabbit – we will customize the same a little.

Tortoise and rabbit are software engineers joined a IT Company at same time. Rabbit is very hard working, woks form morning 8 to midnight even weekends. Got very good hike every time, bonus, promotion became Manager in 6 years.

But Tortoise comes to office by 9AM and leaves office by 6PM. He is still a senior developer.

So Rabbit won the race but lost happiness of life.

 

Tortoise	Rabbit
Enjoys breakfast with his family	Always has in office
Enjoys evening snacks with family	Never had the chance
Enjoys evenings chat, walk, Gym with friends	Onsite meetings, MOM
Have dinner with family	Office cafeteria is dinner table
Enjoyed weekends movies, shopping	Office Office Office

Tortoise lost race and enjoyed during journey lots of health, happiness, satisfaction.

Rabbit won the race but experienced lots of  tension, health problems.

So we can decide what is real win and real loss - Winning is measured in terms of what we achived during race

Its true working hard is very important in today’s fast moving world but we should think we are earning this money for our happiness, my family’s happiness.

 If this purpose is not fulfilling that objective then earning hard is of no use.

In olden days there was king who wanted to demonstrate the bad effects of more greed. He called 2 people where one person was very greedy and another was satisfied with what he has with him

King declared tomorrow from 6 AM till 6 PM there is a game where as much a person runs that much land will be given to him. But condition is person has to come back before 6 PM to the point he started.

So both of them became ready and started running. 

Person who had greed started running very fast, he didn’t stop for breakfast or lunch thinking he will lose that much land if he wastes time. He was running very hard.

Another person started comfortably, had his breakfast when he was hungry, drank water when he was thirsty, took rest when he was tired, had his food and one point of time he felt I should return now and he returned back.

But greedy person ran till 3 PM and thought of returning back, but he felt if I run little more I can be more rich with more land and he ran again like this he ran and ran but at one point he fell down and because of not having food, and died because of heart attack.

Another person got sufficient land was happily living with his family.

We are also running same way in our life but the day we realize we need to go back and enjoy with our family it’s very late.