Whose garden are you gardening?

People think that they are their foremost priority though the reality is otherwise. Have you realized that your craving for the success of a movie of your favourite film star is more than the craving you have for your own success? You spend more time monitoring the successes and defeats of Indian cricket team than you spend monitoring your own progress! Isn't it a shame that you were able to stay awake through the night to watch cricket, football and tennis matches, but could not extend your own studies into the night? You exhibit greater emotional bondage to the characters in TV mega serials than your own family members? You have time for all the timid things but not for your growth, improvement and development and other areas where you have rabid interest???

A Roger Federer becomes what he is for he is his greatest priority in life. He might admire MS Dhoni, but would not sacrifice his own practice for the sake of watching a cricket match or the acting skills donned by Amitabh Bachchan. While you skip a period in your college to watch a Hrithik Roshan film, he would not sacrifice his morning workout for the sake of monitoring the elections. You have to be your greatest priority. Invest your prime time on the essential aspects of your life and the left over time for other distractions. If you cannot lift yourself you cannot lift anybody else.

Identify oneself mentally and emotionally with the success of other people as if it is his own success is erroneous gratification. Whose garden are you gardening? It is time that you wake up to water your garden first to keep it lively and rejuvenating and then to look around. Could you raise yourself to that level that one-day the other gardeners would come to you for expert counselling ????