Learning from Fun City...

Last Sunday, I took Rohit to Phoenix mall. Kumaran was not in station, so it was time for me and my son alone J I wanted to make it special for him. Rohit wanted to visit Fun city in the mall. I had to purchase some grocery items, so I felt mall will be better option for both of us. Fun city taught me a good lesson.

We started at 10:30 AM, took an auto and started our fun day. We reached the mall and went to Fun City. We were told that we have to get a card for minimum of Rs.300 and plus tax. For each game we need to swipe the card and the amount to be charged for that game will be deducted from the card. I bought the card for him and handed over to him. He was all excited; first he went to some Road crash game and played that.

When he went and swiped the card for the second game he realized that the amount in the card is reducing considerably. He thought for a moment, he understood that he has to pick and choose the game based on what he likes and amount that is getting charged for that game. It was interesting to watch him after that. He went to every game station, checked the game rules, looked at the charges mentioned and then decided which one he should play.

That is exactly the case for us in life. Similar to Rs.300 which Rohit had for playing, we have got 365 days in a year for us to use. How are we using to use it? What is our priority? How effective and efficient we are going to spend the time in hand? When a kid spends some time to decide which game to pick and play, are we not supposed to spend quality time in deciding what we want to do in life?

If you think 365 days planning is a very long term, let’s look at the 24 hours which we get in a day. How are we going to use that time? How much time are we going to spend for family, office, exercise, fun, growth and self in a day?