Kleptomania

Take a moment to think about the best period in your life so far. I am not talking about moments, but a period of life which you feel, you were generally happy.

My guess is, that barring childhood of course, it would have been a period where you were most busy. Busy doing work maybe, busy organizing things, busy managing people in your life, or anything else for that matter. But it would never be the period when you have had nothing to do.

And believe me I am not saying that you were happy because you were so busy, all I am saying is that you were happy because maybe, just maybe, you could steal time. Steal time to do things you could not manage to do while you were busy. Something you wanted to do but never could afford to because of the time constraints and leading you to steal time from whatever that was keeping you busy and being happy for a while.

Atleast I remember my best times in life, have not been when I had nothing to do. They in fact have been the worst to be honest. I think I have enjoyed the most when I stole sometime off the clock and done something worthwhile. Going for a non-scheduled trip, meeting new and interesting people while going around the city looking for sponsorships, doing ten things at one time and still stealing time from all of it to go out with friends. Its never been as fun when I was just sitting in my room and someone took me to a place that I really remember.

But it poses an interesting question: would I have had as much fun at all the stuff that I remember now, had I been free during that period?

I think not.

I think that we, as people, have this general tendency of being kleptomaniacs who want to steal time and do something different from what we are already busy with. I think that the enjoyment sort of increases when you are busy and that one would not enjoy even the most fun thing in the world if the person had nothing else to do in life besides being there. Also, the periods in life, where I have had nothing to do, have been like a dull blotch in my memory. Although when I am busy, I always think about how and when would I get free, but when I get free, I can never think of fun stuff to do. Its like when you have the exam the next day, your mind would think of the most brilliant plans, and before you can even walk out of the examination hall the next day, your brain is stripped out of the interesting ideas and left with the most boring and mundane ones.

The people around me, who I envy/admire the most, are the people who find time for everything. They steal time from their busy life and do something that I would have loved to do. I always admire their knack of being successful at what they are doing and also finding time for what they want to do in life. Their success, I think, lies in not doing what they are busy with brilliantly (heck, everybody is brilliant at what they do these days), but in managing to steal away time from those things and actually implement those plans that they think of when they are busy.

So the lesson my friend (Oh! there is a lesson too, you ask!!) is keep yourself busy. Do not aim for a life where you have nothing to do, instead look for things that will make you busy and test you. And if you are already busy, then make sure that you steal time to do the things that you want to do. Because only that, would truly make you happy, for there is no fun in being free when you were not busy anyways.