Two Stories and one Life Fact

Shirish, a clerk in the office at a district place. Father expired when he was 8 years old. His mother took it from there and Shirish with his efforts reached where he is now.

A monthly pay of Rs. 15,000/-. After all the expense, he still used to save 5,000/-. A big one for him considering the humble background he came from.

Soon he got married with Kavita — a teacher in nearby school. Now they together earn around 25,000/-. Considering all the expenses, a monthly 10,000/- saving was a huge for both of them.

They are never in the middle of anyone, anything. They are a happy-go-lucky couple.

One day, they got an unknown call from a publisher, asking for the rights of the poems Kavita used to write. Not only this, the publication committed a hefty amount and a royalty as well on the sales.

The couple got excited with the joy — joy of the poems getting published and not more about the money exactly.

Soon, the poem book got published and money started flowing in.

The big money flow didn’t even change a single thing in their life. Shirish still working as a clerk in the same company and Kavita teaching at the school with sometimes engaged in writing poems.

Even with a considerably big bank balance they have the same routine, same happiness as of saving the Rs 10,000/- per month.

The other side –

Kundan, a distributor of few big companies in the district. A well-known figure with a political clout.

Big bungalow, luxury vehicles, servants — living life like king size.

Hectic schedule, always in some or other thing of building business, always looking for adding one more zero in the bank balance.

No time for self and family. Unaware of what’s going in the family. Giving surprise gifts of cars, costly gadgets and jewellery during birthdays and special occasions to family members is a compensation for his no time for the family members.

They too got used to it.

One day, due to negligence of one of his employees, he had to suffer a loss of Rs 10,000/-. He made a big issue out of it, shouting at the employee, his BP got shot off and had to be hospitalised.

Now a below story, sourced from Medium Newsletter — a blogging site [https://blog.medium.com/most-things-dont-matter-that-much-bccd254483b7]

Grief and loss expert David Kessler has spent serious time with people on death’s door. One of the most impactful experiences he shared was when he was at the home of someone in the last few moments of their life. They were surrounded by friends and family and one of the friends asked if they wanted to see their new car, which was parked outside in the driveway. The dying person said no, they didn’t care to see the new car. “How ridiculous was that concept all of a sudden?” David Kessler said. “You just realize everything that what we thought was going to make us happy and become how we identify ourselves just means nothing. It means nothing. What matters is the people, it’s the love, it’s everything else.”