Are we just lucky enough!!

Today, I conducted an unusual experiment with myself and I would sincerely recommend it to you.

I just tried to know my worth. Yes! My worth! How much value am I adding to the market and how much does this market value me!

I earn 27 k in hand and am working for 200 hours in a month approx. (this is just according to the office hours) excluding travelling and getting ready for the office.

And I calculated that I am earning 135/hour.

This is my market worth or according to my employer, what I deserve.

But the question is, who will decide your worth???

Is it your employer? Or u?

We are like those daily wage laborers who are earning the same amount while sitting in an air conditioned room. We can say, we are just lucky enough!

After studying for 3-4 years and working for 2+ years, this is what your net worth is!

And why should we just talk about your graduation days, Aren’t we studying till we turned 18??

Add 14 years of schooling + 4 years of graduation+ 2 years of experience=135 /hour

Shocking! Isn’t it?

How a human being is made to believe that he is earning too much and should be satisfied.

I recall the story of an elephant here, who was tied to the ground with a rope. Someone asked the keeper, how can you keep an elephant tied to a rope.

The keeper smiled and replied, “The strength is not in the rope but in the mind, since his  childhood, we have tied him with a rope. When he was child he couldn’t break free, so he understood and got satisfied with not trying again. He grew up with the same set of mind, and he still thinks he cannot break free”.

It depends totally on us, to take care of our worth. People who assume that they are capable of doing less, will always deserve less.

Think about it? 

Waiting

In the book, persuasion by jane austen, the two people met and fell in love. Soon, they were separated, to meet once again.

Sometimes, the time is not right for the two people to come together or for things to happen. Even though everything feels correct, still things don’t work out.

In such scenarios, a person usually tries to wait for the person or for the opportunity, they feel are worth waiting for.

Isn't it beautiful when people wait for someone or something, they give away a portion of their life, doing nothing, just waiting. Checking again and again, if they have arrived, and every time they have not, feel the disappointment, but still hoping and keeping faith.

Sometimes, this wait is momentary and sometimes, it consumes years of your life.

A reply from a friend on WhatsApp. Checking the ‘last seen at’ again and again. All of us have gone through that one feeling where the person last seen is updated but the reply is still awaited. There is a sudden rush-of-thoughts in your mind. Few people doesn't bother much and some thoughts go in a different direction. And the very next moment when the reply arrives, it brings a smile to your face. This is called waiting.

Waiting for somebody can be restless and annoying. But we still wait, we still want to wait, why?

Maybe because we want to be with the person, no matter for how long, the mere sight of that person or reply from that person makes us forget the bitterness of waiting.

But I truly believe and have confidence that one day the wait will be answered because waiting is a journey where everybody embarks alone. As every journey has an end, so this journey also ends with the light.

What is more interesting is that sometimes this answer brings and revives your hope and your faith and sometimes it will be just be an answer. 

Whatever it is , it teaches you a wonderful lesson of patience. It teaches us that we should never rush into things, because slow and steady you will win the race.

When the wait gets over, either you are left with that one person with whom you want to be or with a smile that even if it didn't happen, you are still content and satisfied that you have done everything you could.

Trust me, the patience will bring you peace, you will not remain a wanderer, with no directions. You will definitely reach the end of the tunnel, and see the light.

So, wait as long as you can, to see how the story ends….but wait for something or somebody, only when you have done all you could do in your capacity!!!