The following blog entry was written way back in 2005 when I had created my blog on blogspot. I failed to write much after that. Hoping to get it back on track
Today morning as I was driving to work( in Dallas) I was thinking about various things and this topic struck me. My drive to work is around 40 mins and
I spend this time reflecting on life and thinking about topics for my blog and various other things. As I was thinking about different things, I asked myself “What if God gives me a Million Dollars today. What would I do with it? How will that affect my life?” and here is what I think I will do
1) Resign my Job.
2) Before I resign my Job I will put the money in a bank.
3) Go back to India and buy a nice car.
4) Then go around the world visiting different countries and chill out till I get bored.
5) Go back and find something to do which will not be too demanding and help some people and take vacations whenever I think I need one and go on and on…
6) Play more video games.After thinking about what I would do, then I thought about
What if Bill Gates gets 30 billion dollars , i.e. pretty much an amount that is equivalent to what he has now?He will continue to be the Chief Architect of Microsoft and continue to do what he does everyday.What if Narayan Murthy gets a Billion dollars?He will continue to do be the CEO of Infosys and grow his company more and work hard everyday.
What if Sachin Tendulkar gets 100 Crores?He will continue to play as good as he can and score more centuries.
What if A.R.Rehman gets 100 Crores?He will continue to compose good music and help put Indian music on the Global map.
So when I look at the above guys, they all seem to have something in common. They will continue to do what they are doing now and strive to get better at it. But when I look at what I will do, there is a big difference. I will stop doing what I am doing right now and try to live life as though it is one big vacation. Is this why God decided that I do not deserve to get a Million Dollars because then I would just spend my time doing nothing worthwhile and shy away from the challenges that life has to offer and stay in my comfort zone. And is this why there are only a select few Millionaires in this world while there maybe so many people like me who just want to lead a comfortable life without wanting to face the various challenges that life has to offer and resigning to the fact that they have to work 9 to 6 their rest of their lives?
2 comments:
its not god who made a decision not to make a millionaire, its the consequence of your laziness :)
BTW, this seems to be the first comment on your blog
Muthu, I already commented on this blog at some other site, so I get the title of first commentor ;0
Anand,
This is one classic blog, but not sure how true it is. For e.g. you might've become a day trader. Knowing you, you would have invested i Indian cricket team ;)
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