Last life experience for today and a controversial one 🙏
If you ever have to attend a funeral, take a moment and stand near the pyre for a while.
Those 30–40 minutes of silence can teach you more about life than a thousand motivational posts. It reminds you that no matter who we are, we all end up there one day.
It humbles you.
It makes you empathetic.
And it reminds you that life is temporary, so live it with meaning
Sharing from personal experience, might not be applicable to everyone
As an Indian our only motive to earn money should be to avoid crowd.
First for basic needs you can
1. Buy a house in gated society
2. Buy a car to avoid public transport
3. Travel by Air
4. Afford private hospitals
5. Pay money to agents/brokers so that you don't have to visit Govt offices.
6. Buy things online as much as possible, don't go on roads Unless it's extremely necessary.
If after all these you have additional money to afford then move outside India.
The ability to get bored is something that people are losing fast. And, it is killing their minds.
Even to get something as basic as food, vegetables people DON't have to go out. Or wait much.
Think about it: our entire specie got to this point today because we went out, honed our survival instincts, interacted with others. Waited for things.
Go 15 years back: family outings used to be an activity people waited for. They would plan which restaurant to go to, wait for a Sunday, travel and make additional plans with it.
Today: even at a restaurant people simply simply scroll their phones waiting for their food.
Honestly, movies like Animal did well (and will continue to do well) because we need MUCH STRONGER trigger points now for us to feel anything.
Why have we reached this point? because we lost our ability to get BORED. A critical aspect for our brain's development.
Most of the privileged lot lead a life a lot dependent on private institutions.
Private jobs, private hospitals, private vehicle, private schools. We hate any such interface with the govt be it Courts or Police (barring colleges, that we fight for).
So any such interface is supposed to be avoided, and if by some misfortune you have to do it, people try to minimise the time spent by greasing palms.
The govt functionaries know it very well, “You don’t have time” The cost of your time decides the bribe amount.
These lowly paid officials (on paper) make enough so there is no such vociferous demand to hike the pay. Heck they don’t even want promotions, lest they lose that chair which makes money.
The high cost of your time when meets govt in-efficiency breeds corruption.
Being academically good in my childhood has completely destroyed me. Raised people's hopes for no reason. Raised my own standards for no reason. Now I cannot compete with my old self. I cannot comprehend and accept the fact that I am not capable of doing anything. I cannot