The World is not enough

Apart from being the title of a Bond movie, it's also today the title of my post signifying that which has been running on my mind.

The world is truly not enough, now more than ever i understand why being at peace with oneself and being content are far more important than being the fastest or the smartest. 

A friend (before she threw me out of her life) told me a true life incident that happened with her on her birthday and the strange thing is that it's been on my mind since the day she told me about it. This really happened.

"So on my birthday, in the morning I was with my family going to the temple when due to traffic we were stuck at a signal.

Now honestly all day it was on my mind that although it's my birthday and all but something was amiss..i felt sad and i wasn't really happy..friends had come over the previous day itself for the celebration and we had a great time but somehow somewhere something was lacking..i couldn't place a finger on it.. it was when all this was running on my mind that i saw a kid..very small probably he wouldn't  even be in class 2 or 3 if he ever did go to school.but here he was cleaning the windscreen of our car with those little hands and when he came to ask my jiju for some money in return of his work i saw his condition and then it hit me : here is someone probably who should be in a school but no life has been so cruel to him that he has to stand in the hot sun all day at the traffic junction cleaning cars so that maybe just maybe he'll have his full meals for that day and then i realized WE, the privileged class who have a roof over our head, meals readily available whenever we are hungry have grown to cribbing about almost everything. We have forgotten to appreciate that which we have. and then suddenly i felt happy here was i with my Di n jiju on one of my special days...what more could i have asked for"

Now coming to the point i wanted to raise with this story was that she was telling me all this when i had called her after what was a very difficult day for me at work and just wanted to get it off my chest and she started narrating this story to me..i was stunned "Damn man is it really true that i'm a cribber i mean was i forgetting that others too had problems and everyone deals with their own wagon full of it..isn't it the whole way this life thing works out..every man for himself..

Coming back to the strangeness of the title for this post, the world is truly not enough, I'm in a better position in life than maybe a billion other people but am i happy?? does the comforts that i have in any way make me more happy or are they just turning me more lazy..I avoid taking the local these days, the same locals that were nothing less than an adventure for me when i was in college..are we evolving towards our own end..

As my struggle with myself continues and i try to find the ultimate truth i'll keep coming back here trying to give words to my thoughts..for me and for you!!!