I have a habit of forwarding mails. One such forwards was titled "How many other things are we missing out on?". An exert from the said forward -
"In a curious experiment initiated by Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten, Bell donned a baseball cap and played as an incognito street busker at the Metro subway station L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. on January 12, 2007. The experiment was videotaped on hidden camera; among 1,097 people who passed by, only seven stopped to listen to him, and only one recognized him. For his nearly 45-minute performance, Bell collected $32.17 from 27 passersby (excluding $20 from the passerby who recognized him).Weingarten won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for his article on the experiment.
One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?"
One of the replies that I got for this mail was -
"Galat jagah par galat samay par kaam karenge toe aisaa hi hoga. Har cheez apne samay par hi acchee lagee hai.
School ke time par TV serial kitna bhi knowedgeable kyon naa ho… bacche ko school hi jaanaa chaahiye. Serial toe ½ hrs mai khatam ho jaayega. Par school poore din ka gaya…"
This translates to something like "Doing wrong things at wrong times at wrong places will lead to this. There's a proper time for everything. Children have to go to school in the morning even if a informative TV show is being telecasted."
I had been acknowledging the brilliant mail - how true it is that in performing our daily chores we miss so many small moments of joy and happiness; in being totally focussed on our routine lives we miss the beauty of the nature and the time to spend on things we like. Then all of a sudden I got this response and I was forced to think in this different line of thought. And I had no way of denying the essense of the response - everything has a proper time and place; and things done out of place and at an improper time will usually go unacknowledged and unnoticed.
Maybe that's the reason why giving advise to people who are upset or angry doesn't yield proper results; maybe that's why all major tournament finals are scheduled on Sundays; and maybe that's the reason why movies are released on Fridays.
3 comments:
The reply that you got is truly something to think about. An absolute eye opener !!!
I agree - things are meant to be done at the right time, only then there is the charm of doing it.
"Doing things at the right time"
What-->why-->when
See kissi bhi kaam ko karne ke liye the order of determining should be as above. kya karna hai agar pata ho toh kyu karna hai should be answered and then only u should look at kab karna hai.
if ever there is a conflict between why and when then why is to be given higher preference.
The artist who performed unnoticed may seemt o be wasted if you want to look at the act as something that requires appreciation and encouragement. these things are important for people who either lack confidence or need to pamper tehir ego, who want others to acknowledge that they are good at something. magar true essence of doing something, for the soul who have achieved liberation from these wordly hassles, lies in the "act" of doing their hearts desire.
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