When someone said that life is a race; he or she was not kidding!
It is definitely a race!
It starts the moment you get up! It is a race to get ready, have breakfast, beat the traffic and race to reach your work on time!
Then you have the race to finish the work on time and rush back to home to finish the pile of work at home!
The pile of clothes to be cleaned and folded! Your kid’s home work and assignments to be completed! The bills to be paid, the food to be cooked and the house to be cleaned!
Even if you have loads of money and help to do all these, there is still a race to keep the money flowing! You have to race to catch a flight or to catch an important client!
The race never leaves you! Even in the end; lying down on your bed, all weak and unable to move; you have the final race; against TIME!
In fact the actual term is Rat race!
The term “rat race” refers to an endless, self-defeating, and often stressful pursuit of success, typically in a competitive environment. It is called a rat race because it evokes the image of rats frantically scurrying in a maze for a piece of cheese, a pointless and exhausting exercise that ultimately leads nowhere.
It is a miracle how with all this racing around, many people are so successful! They do so much and continue to shine! Of course that also is a matter of time! The champion of today will be forgotten the moment you have a new one!
So once in a while, just STOP! Take a breath! Take a break! The engine needs an overhaul! Your body also needs rest! Let the time run! Turn off the phone and take a look around! Recharge yourself and get ready to race again!
Luckily we humans can take a break from the race! Nature is not so kind!
A gazelle is given the gift of nature to be consistent. To run for long and to run fast but it normally has a slow start! It is always thus racing!
A cheetah can run fast and be quick! It’s chief power is the element of surprise! The sudden attack and the quick start! But if the chase continues then it stops since it cannot maintain the speed! That’s why the gazelle does not give hope though in the end the one gazelle which does not run that fast or is not persistent or is a little slower than the other gets eliminated! The Cheetah is in the race for food while the Gazelle is in a race for his or her life!
Remember the most famous race of the animal kingdom? Well it is the race between the tortoise and the hare! But the story is not so simple! The tortoise can be slow since it has a hard body! There is less danger! The hare on the other hand has no defense whatsoever! Which is why it has to be fast! As a story you may think how the tortoise won! But in the wild, the hare has to win always! When he or she does not win the race; well that is end game! Now that is a HARE (hair!) raising race!
So stop for a while and breath!
Let the race begin tomorrow! Today just listen to Amit Kumar and relax!!
Shubh Ratri!
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