DON'T GO SPEED RACER DON'T GO!!!

"vroommmmmmmmmm...(gear shift)...vroommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...(gear shift)...vroommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..."

Well that is the sound coming out of a 6 year old's room when he is playing "car racing". He is  imagining that he is racing in this amazingly powerful car (which most likely is his bed), and he is winning a very important race of some sort. Nothing else is more important at that time.It takes a little bit of yelling scolding and shouting from his mother for him to have his lunch. He is that engrossed in his game. 

Little does he know that this little game of his, summarises the story of his life. For, through out his life he will be in a race of some sort, where he will want to come first no matter what the cost. And nothing whatsoever will make him leave any of those races.

And this is true for almost anyone. Right from the school going days. Be it winning the imaginary race or coming first in class. In college it is all about looking the coolest, dating the pretiest girl and getting the highest paying job. In the job its about promotions and raises. The races keep changing but the idea is the same to win it!! No matter what the cost.

People are so very obsesed with winning at every step of their life that they forget about the people they love, themselves and if I may say so their surrounings. Everything in life takes a back seat. People forget that winning is not as important as some other things. Sometimes people should take a break from being hard core machines and enjoy their human nature a little bit. Its not a bad idea to take a break and let the other person win sometimes. Its important to look into other things in life. The most important amongst all those things happens to be health. It may not bether your thick skin to be running with poor health. But be rest assured that it will effect the people around you, the people who love you. And probably, it will effect them far worse as they will feel a sence of helplessness. 

Then comes your family and friends i guess. We work hard and make a lot of money for them. But what is the point of all that money if we cannot enjoy some quality time with them. Personally i rather not earn all that money. I rather become a teacher or a preacher and enjoy my life to the fullest. Hard work is important, but enjoying the fruits of that hard work with your family and  friends is probably more important. In this fast world of information technology many fail to see this. But at the same point of time, i am glad to say that quite a few people, institutions and organizations which i have come across have acknowledged this and are working towards it.

Then lastly and importantly comes the environment or surroundings in which we lead our life. Yes, I am talking about ones locality, city, nation. Whatever you call it. Its important that we pay special attention to this aspect. For, we miss it always. Your health and wealth and wealth are directly related to it, especially your money (if that is an attention grabber). If our locality clean and hygenic our health will be fine. If the locality is not over priced then you will have lesser holes in your pocket. These things may sound silly, but they are true. People argue that, such is an utopian world. So what? If each of us can just pay a little bit of attention to the problems of our surroudings then i am confident that we could get very,very close to such an utopian world. THE SUM OF THE PARTS IS GREATER THAN THE WHOLE. And that is the trick we have to understand. OFcourse, problems would still exist. After all, if all the problems end in this world then we will get bored won't we. But the idea is to reduce them to an almost zero. Anything beyond I guess is not practically possible. 

It takes, for our mother to shout at us for us to have lunch when we were 6 years old. Lets not wait till that long, now that we have grown up...(if you get what i mean)...lets go and have our lunch.

"vrooooooom vroooommmm ehnnnnnnnnn(brakes)"