Go for it, if you can live over it
I was in my first year of college, enjoying my college honeymoon days. It was one day when amidst of long session, my engineering drawing class professor diverted the focus from the subject on some casual talks. Though it was quite unusual from him, slowly everyone opened up and the whole class was engrossed in a good discussion. He stopped everyone at one point and started with a fresh concept. None of us realized why he did so in certain classes. He was a guy with Industry work experience before he decided to take up teaching. His subject was difficult to be dealt with and we were a group of notorious gang to command any serious attention. It was his class when we had full strength and he was able to win over our attention. He was a man who was well over the ability in his profession. Well, it was our parting day of our first year of college when he gave a speech where he was advising us to choose the stream of our specialization. On the go of his speech, he made a punching comment that still lingers in my mind. “Go for it, if you can live over it”Let me start with the example, which he quoted. “A man should not worry about his petrol expenses after buying a car”. Well, we may have endless arguments on this but speaking in ideal terms - Its right. Today we have the possibility through various means using loans. Imagine if a man can afford a few lakh rupees to buy a car, then he would have attained a psychological maturity and financial stability that petrol charges and mileage will not matter him much compared to its looks and features. In such a case if a person goes to buy a car then we say “Go for it, if you can live over it”. Imagine a guy who has opted for a huge investment (relative to this person) and he is managing his monthly installment for the same; Don’t you feel he will end up in paining his daily life and in addition to the same, the day-to-day maintenance of the item will trouble his peace!
Controversies apart on the above lines, Turning on to the practical aspects of his speech it’s always ‘Wish’ that makes a man invent new world. ‘Wish’ made man to attain the growth in his civilization as of today. If the ‘Wish’ is attained by hard means then it is realized as one of the lifetime achievements. An indeterminist greedy mind will not undergo the strain to attain a mental and psychological maturity that they end up in realizing their ‘Wish’ and end up without the real enjoyment and fulfillment.
Today the world is heading to attain this false ‘Wish’ and loosing its real enjoyment of achievement. This lukewarm thinking has penetrated in everyone’s mind and today it is no more seen as a burden or trouble. Today it is seen as a opportunity. Today these facilities are admired and welcomed. But at what cost? Forgoing one’s inner self-achievement? By saying this I don’t say I am an exception to this thinking. Today it is the way of doing things. Infact it is way of doing things smartly.
I am not here writing this piece of information to argue if this is right or wrong but certainly I end up saying that in today’s world we go for anything if we can manage it and we have stopped thinking “Go for it, if you can live over it”
posted by Unknown @ 7:48 PM
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