Which Category do You Fall in???

Which Category do you fall in?

I recently completed the very famous series on Netflix. 

SQUID GAMES......

It was amazing, but then it kept me thinking over.. 

....there is something that the old man...who happens to be the mastermind of the game, shares at the end.

He says, " when you have huge amount of money or when you hardly have some to live, then life is boring, bad, you are not happy in both the situations...

Consider the following two situations:-

1. When you have huge money. 

2. When you hardly have some money. Barely surviving.

In the first condition, you have so much that you can afford anything. You already have everything. You can not afford to want. Nothing excites you. You have access to everything. 

In the second condition, you are poor, you really need to do something to survive. It might even lead you to danger. But then, there is no option. 

In both the conditions, you are not actually happy. 

So when are you happy and have some meaning with the money that you have earned? 

When its not enough, we work hard for more. But its good enough for your survival. The middle class people like us fall generally in this category. When we have a cycle, we want motorcycle. The day you get it, you are happy and feel great about it. This happiness goes on for sometime, few months or few years may be. And then, you want a car. 

You save for your car. The growth in savings makes you happy. Slow and steady you reach a point where you can afford a car. Great happiness to the family. You are on top of the world, when you go for the maiden drive. 

This cycle goes on.....

Thats how we live, isnt it? So, Where is the end? 

Now, comes the best part. There is no need to get to the end. Because you dont want to get into the unhappy catrgories. Do you? Being in the journey is a great thing. This gives you something which is very commonly spoken these days. BALANCE. Balance between personal and professional life. Time for you and your family. Time for your health. Time to meet friends. Time to party. Time for meditation. Time for everything.

And still, it keeps you going because you want motocycle, car and so on. It keeps you thinking, busy amd charged up. It doesn't let you get bored of having owned everything and no aim to live with. 

This also lets you live deliberately. Not being shallow on personal life , or not being able to listen to your wife talking coz you are busy looking at your phone.

So hence ladies and gentlemen, just live and be happy. Work hard, but remember to not fall in any of those two categories....

Happy Living!