Don’t die before you actually die

I see so many dying everyday. Dying for money, validation, affection and what not. People cut down even on their needs to save for future. A future that may not exist. You can die tomorrow. All that money would be useless then.

I am totally amazed by how people keep dying everyday. By dying I mean not living life to the very fullest.

I’ll tell you a recent incident. I had 10 rupees in my pocket and had to take a sharing auto to home approximately 2kms from that place. I got into the rikshaw and sat down while the rikshawala was waiting for more people. Just then I saw a cotton candy seller. I loved cotton candy in my childhood and this was after years that a cotton candy seller was in front of me. But I had only 10₹ in my pocket. If I bought cotton candy then I’ll have to walk 2 km and that too in blazing heat.

At that moment I got down from the auto for 2 reasons:

1. I never disregard my heart and my heart desperately wanted that candy.

2. I love doing what most won’t do.

I’m 18yo young enough to walk 2 kms in the hot sun and child enough to get hold of that cotton candy.

After coming home I told my mother what happened, expecting a firm scolding.

But these were her words

“Next time keep more money with you”

Then she gave me a life lesson-

“Live while you are alive

Don’t die before you actually die”

-ChoubeySahab