Finished reading this book "It happened in India". It covers the professional life of Mr. Kishore Biyani, the big bazaar tycoon. He gave one of my psycho thoughts a name - The Timepass Theory. Somehow I have believed in this alternate interpretation of life for quite some time, knowing very well that one has to be some kind of a lunatic jerk to have such thoughts. Hearing it from someone else that too in his biography came as some kind of relief. Enough to make me post about it.
I interpret life very differently and I have this belief that we all come to this world to kill time. Therefore, we pick up some activity that we like doing and call it our profession. I call this the Time Pass theory.
I work to build a business, an organization. But what I am essentially doing is trying to spend the time I have in this lifetime. Every morning, I get busy getting ready to leave for work or some meeting. I am doing it not because I have to do it. I am doing it because I will not have much else to do through the day.
Through this work-life of ours, we tend to create our own world. We make our own definitions of success and failure, of victories and defeats. And we use these not only to judge our own selves, but also to judge others, without ever realizing that all we are doing is basically digging holes and filling them up. Yet I have seen so many people take their life too seriously, not realizing that what they are essentially doing in this world is time pass.
(Kishore Biyani is the CEO, Future Group and author of
It Happened in India)
How the hell did he motivate himself to achieve those monumental feats with such negative thinking?
