Vox Populi–Letters: How our time is looted- JUST DIFFERENT – BHAVANI KRISHNA IYER
AS our world is engorged digitally, we have been rendered physically far, from people, emotions, feelings and everything else that would depict us as humans. Time is the most valued and scarce commodity in the world today.
Everything is about hustle, hurry and haste, including feeding our stomachs and soul.
To afford a little leisure time for ourselves on an average working day, one has to work extra hard to complete the tasks before we call it a day to be able to enjoy what is rightfully his.
Each day one works harder and harder to enjoy less and less leisure when it finally comes to a point of genocide, where people have to make a choice and decide that leisure does not fit in. It has become too unwieldy for people to rush and make time for leisure.
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In the corporate world just when we think we are done for the day, we get digitally overwhelmed and overpowered, and that completely throws us off balance and all we can do is be grateful that we have a home to go to and a job to wake up for the next day.
Our accelerated pace of life is pushing us to the brink. Leisure, recreation and entertainment are scheduled into the outlook calendar, lest they are forgotten by the momentum of work. Our notion of leisure and rest is shrouded in an inhospitable environment to the extent that leisure comes with strings attached.
If you are one of those drooling to get onto the leisure boat but have been feeling guilty about it, here is a little anecdote that might give you the impetus to actually enjoy it.
A wealthy businessman who was on a well-deserved beach holiday halted on a less popular shore and noticed that a fisherman had his line out in the sea and caught just a few fish and after some hours decided to head home.
The next day, the businessman witnessed the same scene and it went on day after day.
One fine day, the proclaimed successful capitalist stopped and started a conversation with the fisherman and asked him why he was not out at sea in a boat like his other peers to catch more fish.
The fisherman said he didn’t find a reason to do that because right now he had enough sleep and time with his family, enough to eat and enough time to rest and play.
The businessman then reasoned that if the fisherman was able to catch more he could expand and that way the fisherman could become rich and more prosperous and prepare for the future.
The man, in his wisdom, further reasoned that in another five years or so, the fisherman will have his own fleet of fishing boats and men who worked for him.
With the money made the fisherman could move to a bigger city and become a wholesaler and when he had enough, he would not have to work any more and spend all his time enjoying his life.
Bewildered, the fisherman asked what would he then do? To that the businessman said he could then move into a little village and enjoy his life where there was enough time for sleep, family and play.
The fisherman, who was listening intently, said, “I am doing exactly that now and I see no reason to spend longer hours in the sea, forgoing what I am enjoying now to be able to enjoy life in the future when I may be too old and frail”.
The businessman said no more and left the scene pondering on the fisherman’s words of wisdom.
The moral of this story is that most success, as defined in modern society today, costs too much in terms of blood, sweat, and tears. What’s the point of working hard for many years, sacrificing happiness and well-being along the way, when we can have the desired productivity at work and yet sufficient time for rest and play?
Almost all ancient wisdom carries the same thought about overcoming greed and staying content with what we have but these go against the very grain of human existence today, where enough means being complacent and not being ambitious.
Like a phone on its last bar of battery, man uses up all his energy and, at the point of going dead, he desperately looks for options to recharge when the bits that are left may be too tired and worn.
Having said that, what we leave behind is not what is engraved on stones but what is woven into the hearts and lives of others, and therefore, having time for family and friends are good investments with guaranteed returns.
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