ST,
Read your post, and thought about an incident last week. Have a friend who along with his wife are earning around 10L/month. They have saved and invested in properties, FD's over the years and have seen multifold returns. They could have choosen to leave the job 5 years back without having to worry for the next 2 generations. But considering the lucrative jobs, they both continued till there was a reorganisation in the company for my friend and he was offered the same position, but would have to relocate.
Considering his family is settled abroad and the children are doing well in schools, he declined but was looking for another position. But the sad fact is that inspite of having so much, the stress of losing his share of lucrative income of about 3.5L (his wife is more qualified and in a better position than him and earns more) he got anxious, and inspite of a healthy lifestyle (diet + excercise) his undiagonised blood pressure went high and he had a stroke (brain hemorrage for which he underwent surgery) For 15 days he was in ICU, two days back he is now under observation in general ward. Do not know the extent of damage, if he will be able to walk/talk and function normally.....
The thought came to my mind - What do we live our lives for? If we are driven internally, we will be focussed, but sadly for my friend, his focus was too much on making money.... for which he is now paying a very high price.... Which goes to show if the focus of our life is excessively on the external, money, politics, arguments, ego, emotions etc. will be the tiger we ride on, and difficult to get off.....
Read your post, and thought about an incident last week. Have a friend who along with his wife are earning around 10L/month. They have saved and invested in properties, FD's over the years and have seen multifold returns. They could have choosen to leave the job 5 years back without having to worry for the next 2 generations. But considering the lucrative jobs, they both continued till there was a reorganisation in the company for my friend and he was offered the same position, but would have to relocate.
Considering his family is settled abroad and the children are doing well in schools, he declined but was looking for another position. But the sad fact is that inspite of having so much, the stress of losing his share of lucrative income of about 3.5L (his wife is more qualified and in a better position than him and earns more) he got anxious, and inspite of a healthy lifestyle (diet + excercise) his undiagonised blood pressure went high and he had a stroke (brain hemorrage for which he underwent surgery) For 15 days he was in ICU, two days back he is now under observation in general ward. Do not know the extent of damage, if he will be able to walk/talk and function normally.....
The thought came to my mind - What do we live our lives for? If we are driven internally, we will be focussed, but sadly for my friend, his focus was too much on making money.... for which he is now paying a very high price.... Which goes to show if the focus of our life is excessively on the external, money, politics, arguments, ego, emotions etc. will be the tiger we ride on, and difficult to get off.....
One should aspire for good life,few necessities like a good house to live,bank balance for financial independe and we should do our duties in life with full commitment. But once one achieves all that then your assets and bank balance is just a figure in your balance sheet and bank passbooks.The happiness is much beyond that...happiness does not come from money and wealth alone though we need money for a good life.
Smart_trade