Once one of my friends had joked "Life is a balance sheet. Its assets and liabilities side always match". I laughed at him and made fun of him at that time but then I was thinking about this yesterday and realized may be there might be a deep meaning to it. May be .. I might be stretching the point here but cant help it.
Liabilities loosely speaking are your responsibilities or duties. When you actually perform them they get converted into assets. For eg. take friendship. Isn't it a liability...yes it is. You have certain responsibilities towards your friends but at the same time isn't it your asset? Most definitely it is. I generally belive that the people/organization you put your effort into (basically they are your liabilities) become your streghts and your asset. Like any other asset in real life you need to spend some asset to accquire another one. So you need to spend time and effort to develop your assets and this is the price of your assets.
Taking this view does bring up a very interesting question. What is the most prized asset a person has? I believe that the most prized asset of a person should be an asset which is built into him. Which is not due to an external source. Which makes him better than others. I believe it the determination and self confidence that a person has. If you have the will to achieve success and the self belief there is nothing ... i mean nothing in this world that could ever stop you from reaching your goal. All the other qualities and drawbacks become secondary ...it might take you more time to reach than some of the more blessed soles but it certainly a "when" question and not a "whether" question.
Look at most of the famous people in the history. Edison had made some 1000 prototypes of the bulb before he succeeded. JK Rowling's Harry Potter was rejected by lot of publications. Abraham Lincoln became the president after studying under street light. Saurav ganguly never gave up after been ejected from the Indian cricket team. And these are not exceptions. The common thread among most successful people is not intelligence, not charisma, nothing but there will to fight, there will to hang on no matter what. There self belief that they will be able to come up from the mess they were in.
So I pray to god not to give me money not to give me riches or intelligence but to give me this asset. The strength to fight when the chips are down. The strength to believe in my capabilities and abilities. I pray to god that I fight!!!
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This is what happens when an engineer tries to play with accounting concepts... Alas! :P
Jokes apart, another good post from you Daga. But somehow I did not like the way you defined friends as liabilities. To honour the demands of friendship, unlike in the case of most liabilities, is totally upto you..
Phew, these days I am talking a lot of philosophy... gotta stay away from that psychologist witch :D
Yogesh: I think I might have gone over board there but the case in point is that friendship demands time which is a valuable asset. So basically looking at it you are converting one asset into other. If thats what you like then treat it ok.
Too good man, too good.
Fight, fight and fight - thats what takes one to success!
" Dont go the way life takes you.
Take the life the way you go.
And remember you are born to live and
not living because you are born!"
Daga tum sabse bade fighter already ho! Why are you asking for more power to fight?
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