ENJOY LIFE !
If life is a race, fools are winning.
The wise and intelligent people don’t participate in the rat race of life since they know that even if you win the race, you are still a rat.
They rather spend their time in this world to live their life purposefully doing the things which they love to do and transforming the world to become a better place for themselves and for others.
Fools, however, keep running the race of life till they die. Let me narrate you a story "How Much Land Does a Man Require?” authored by by Leo Tolstoy to explain this foolishness of man.
There was a peasant named Pahom. A landlady in the village decides to sell her estate, and the peasants of the village buy as much of that land as they can. Pahom himself purchases some land, and by working on the extra land is able to repay his debts and live a more comfortable life.
He is soon introduced to the Bashkirs, and is told that they are simple-minded people who own a huge amount of land. Pahom goes to them to buy as much of their land for as low a price as he can negotiate.
Their offer is very unusual: for a sum of one thousand rubles, Pahom can walk around as large an area as he wants, starting at daybreak, marking his route with a spade along the way. If he returns to his starting point by sunset that day, all the land his route encloses will be his, but if he does not reach his starting point, he will lose his money and receive no land.
Pahom is delighted, as he believes that he can cover a great distance and has chanced upon the bargain of a lifetime.
He stays out as late as possible, marking out land until just before the sun sets. Toward the end, he realizes he is far from the starting point and runs back as fast as he can to the waiting Bashkirs.
He finally arrives at the starting point just as the sun sets. The Bashkirs cheer his good fortune, but exhausted from the run, Pahom drops dead. His servant buries him in an ordinary grave only six feet long, thus ironically answering the question posed in the title of the story that a man needs just ‘six feet of land’. [1]
Every man who is running the race of life for winning the race is fooling himself and he/she is finally is destined to the fate of Pahom.
It is better to live your life to the fullest enjoying what you have and have what you enjoy.
The wise and intelligent people don’t participate in the rat race of life since they know that even if you win the race, you are still a rat.
They rather spend their time in this world to live their life purposefully doing the things which they love to do and transforming the world to become a better place for themselves and for others.
Fools, however, keep running the race of life till they die. Let me narrate you a story "How Much Land Does a Man Require?” authored by by Leo Tolstoy to explain this foolishness of man.
There was a peasant named Pahom. A landlady in the village decides to sell her estate, and the peasants of the village buy as much of that land as they can. Pahom himself purchases some land, and by working on the extra land is able to repay his debts and live a more comfortable life.
He is soon introduced to the Bashkirs, and is told that they are simple-minded people who own a huge amount of land. Pahom goes to them to buy as much of their land for as low a price as he can negotiate.
Their offer is very unusual: for a sum of one thousand rubles, Pahom can walk around as large an area as he wants, starting at daybreak, marking his route with a spade along the way. If he returns to his starting point by sunset that day, all the land his route encloses will be his, but if he does not reach his starting point, he will lose his money and receive no land.
Pahom is delighted, as he believes that he can cover a great distance and has chanced upon the bargain of a lifetime.
He stays out as late as possible, marking out land until just before the sun sets. Toward the end, he realizes he is far from the starting point and runs back as fast as he can to the waiting Bashkirs.
He finally arrives at the starting point just as the sun sets. The Bashkirs cheer his good fortune, but exhausted from the run, Pahom drops dead. His servant buries him in an ordinary grave only six feet long, thus ironically answering the question posed in the title of the story that a man needs just ‘six feet of land’. [1]
Every man who is running the race of life for winning the race is fooling himself and he/she is finally is destined to the fate of Pahom.
It is better to live your life to the fullest enjoying what you have and have what you enjoy.
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