Life is all about Balance!

We are all a part of this balancing act.. day in and day out we are acting knowingly or unknowingly. Imagine a world full of non-vegetarians or a world full of vegetarians, neither could have existed for long. Why do we blame people for eating meat in that case? If all meat eating people turned vegetarian, there would be a shortage of food and the other way is true too. Similarly we need to learn to value other's beliefs and not try to force on them what we think is right. It is by the absence of something that another thing gets its meaning (light from dark, day from night, joy from sorrow, happiness from sadness, etc). We give more importance to things that make us happy than that make us sad.. why? is that because we are all hard wired for happiness? or is it because emotions play such an important role that it changes the way we think and that we are too weak to face tough times in life? Speaking of emotions, I was reading Chetan Bhagat's "3 mistakes of my life" - an interesting and a different kind of read. Didnt expect that after reading an excerpt on the web. The tale is about 3 friends (in Ahmedabad) one a pujari's son, another a gujarati, and another a die hard cricket fan. He brings out some intrinsic characters and values of all three which was interesting to read and link to real life to people whom I have come across. The gujarati mindset is all about business and emotion takes the last seat (if available) whereas for me it's quite the opposite. I was speaking to a friend of mine over the weekend who is from Ahmedabad as well. He works for a finance company and we got talking about accounting, finance in general and he was so enthu about it and was like "aasaan hai.. accha hai" about finance and i was like thinking - damn.. why dont i feel that way?? for me its more so to gain knowledge rather than liking it, for him its liking it and being good at it.. I read this somewhere "Toughness is when you have slogged your ass off and give your best and be able to take that someone out there is better than you!" .... Should one slog so much just to find out someone out there can do it as if they are drinking water?? Coming back to the story, The gujurati is of the same mindset as my friend and this reinstated my belief that they like numbers and they are good at it!.. Barring some rough language the book was a good read...

Going back to balance in life, we are all trying to make ends meet and when we are successful, we would already have created new ends to meet.. and so life goes on... The normal tendency of human mind is to think about future... people might say they live one day at a time, but do they??

As my friend rightly put it "Everyone Dies ... But Not Everyone Lives" ... I will try to LIVE from now on!!!

Wish me luck!