Whose Garden Are You Gardening?

By Vinod Kantilal Shah

People think that they are their foremost priority, though the reality is otherwise. Have you realised that your craving for the success of a movie of your fevourite film star is more than the craving, you have for your success ? You spend more time monitoring the success and defeats of Indian cricket team than you spend monitoring your own progress ! Isn't it a shame that you were able to stay awake through the night to watch cricket, tennis and hockey matches, but could not extend your own studies into the night ? You exhibit greater emotional bondage to the politicians, their party, canvassing etc. and also the characters in TV mega serials, than your own family members ? You have time for all the TV programs, but not for your own exercises, meditation, reading, growth and development ?

A Sachin Tendulkar becomes what he is for, he is his greatest priority in his life. He might admire Leander Paes, Roger Federer, but would not sacrifice his own net practice for the sake of watching a tennis match. While you skip going to the Gym to watch an interview of Hritik and his on TV, he would not physique sacrifice his morning workout for the sake of monitoring the elections. You have to be your greatest priority. Invest your prime time on the essential aspects of your life and the left over time on the other distractions. If you can not lift yourself, you can not lift anybody else.

Identifying oneself mentally and emotionally with the success of other people, as if it is his own success is erroneous gratification. Whose garden are you gardening ? It is time that you wake up to water your own garden first and then look around. Could you raise yourself to that level, that one-day the other gardeners would come to you for expert counselling ?

By Vinod Kantilal Shah