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March 28, 2008
You get ‘Timed Out!’
I remember an interview of Bollywood comedian Johny Walker, which was shown on TV a couple of years back when he wasn’t doing much on the silver screen. The interviewer posted an interesting question to him. And the question was – how do you feel about not being in the limelight now, which you were there just a decade back? Johny Walker replied, “I have reached the top of Mount Everest, have placed my flag there and come back. I need not go there again and again to prove my worth.”
The irony of life is most people and predominantly most successful people fail to understand the impermanence of life. They forget to understand that they are saleable only in a particular period, and with time even currencies change and the older one becomes useless. In fact blessed are those who understand life and its pattern better.
K Balachander is considered to be the king of Tamil Cinema, who ruled it for almost 2 decades. He has given more hits than any other directors of Tamil Nadu. But if we ask him to direct a movie now - I am sure it will be a major flop. The simple truth is - life has timed him out. So is the case with most successful directors of movie industry. Even Hrishikesh Mukherjee could not give a hit, after his golden era.
Of course there are many exceptions. People like Amitabh Bacchan or Rajini Kanth have eternal success because they are not normal human beings. God is too good to them. But remember exceptions cannot be taken as role models or examples to lead our lives.
This phenomenon is not only true with movie industry, but also true with every career we take up. One day you have to stop working and prepare for death. And this is what we hate to do - we think we can restart our lives anytime, and in the process we fail miserably.
I have seen many people who retire from jobs, and invest their hard earned savings in some business thinking they will be great businessmen from now. It can never happen that way. How much ever good time you are running astrologically - you will only lose money – because life is getting ready to time you out. Hence you better accept it. Of course there are cases where people who have made it big post 58 years of age, but 99.99 per cent people aren’t exceptions, and as said previously exceptions cannot be taken as examples.
A strange phase comes in everyone life, wherein you have to stop doing what you enjoyed the most - Martina should quit tennis, Sachin should quit cricket, and Rajini should quit acting. Whether you are happy or unhappy about the same isn’t anybody’s botheration - but the event is bound to happen. And when you quit, sometimes you have an option to do something that is an extension of your past, and sometimes you are left with no option at all. It doesn’t make any difference though – the extension also dies with time! And you get timed out alone!
Will wait for the time when life wants me to stop astrology!
Posted by Kenni at March 28, 2008 06:25 AM
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