Fill Your Cup First, to Fill Others...

You have an important meeting and are already late for the office. On reaching your car park, you must return to your room where you left your keys. Every thought of your boss and his reactions to your failing to make it on time drives you crazy. Trying to avoid the traffic, you cross the speed limit and get a ticket. You somehow manage to reach the office to be welcomed by your teammates' cold looks and piercing eyes. You are late there. Though obvious and justifiable, your boss's reaction takes over your confidence and self-worth. You are handed a request, and you know you cannot afford to lose the job with those EMIs screening at the back of your mind that need to be honored regularly. Feeling down and low, you skip your lunch. By evening, you experience a headache, making you irritable and angry. Suddenly, there is a call reminder from your wife about your friend's evening party. You make her your sounding board and vent your anger and frustration on her. On reaching home, you realize how your anger had made your situation worse.

Our decision to move to the United States for good and the subsequent moving-house order of events brought a jolt of realization. It then hit us hard about how maximalism and consumerism had driven us to unnecessary clutter that mattered too little for a purposeful living. As rightly said, ‘Experience is the best teacher.’ This might be something we all know but needs to be reminded through such instances, I guess!

Fill Your Cup First, to Fill Others...

You have an important meeting and are already late for the office. On reaching your car park, you must return to your room where you left your keys. Every thought of your boss and his reactions to your failing to make it on time drives you crazy. Trying to avoid the traffic, you cross the speed limit and get a ticket. You somehow manage to reach the office to be welcomed by your teammates' cold looks and piercing eyes. You are late there. Though obvious and justifiable, your boss's reaction takes over your confidence and self-worth. You are handed a request, and you know you cannot afford to lose the job with those EMIs screening at the back of your mind that need to be honored regularly. Feeling down and low, you skip your lunch. By evening, you experience a headache, making you irritable and angry. Suddenly, there is a call reminder from your wife about your friend's evening party. You make her your sounding board and vent your anger and frustration on her. On reaching home, you realize how your anger had made your situation worse.

Our decision to move to the United States for good and the subsequent moving-house order of events brought a jolt of realization. It then hit us hard about how maximalism and consumerism had driven us to unnecessary clutter that mattered too little for a purposeful living. As rightly said, ‘Experience is the best teacher.’ This might be something we all know but needs to be reminded through such instances, I guess!

Fill Your Cup First, to Fill Others...

You have an important meeting and are already late for the office. On reaching your car park, you must return to your room where you left your keys. Every thought of your boss and his reactions to your failing to make it on time drives you crazy. Trying to avoid the traffic, you cross the speed limit and get a ticket. You somehow manage to reach the office to be welcomed by your teammates' cold looks and piercing eyes. You are late there. Though obvious and justifiable, your boss's reaction takes over your confidence and self-worth. You are handed a request, and you know you cannot afford to lose the job with those EMIs screening at the back of your mind that need to be honored regularly. Feeling down and low, you skip your lunch. By evening, you experience a headache, making you irritable and angry. Suddenly, there is a call reminder from your wife about your friend's evening party. You make her your sounding board and vent your anger and frustration on her. On reaching home, you realize how your anger had made your situation worse.

Our decision to move to the United States for good and the subsequent moving-house order of events brought a jolt of realization. It then hit us hard about how maximalism and consumerism had driven us to unnecessary clutter that mattered too little for a purposeful living. As rightly said, ‘Experience is the best teacher.’ This might be something we all know but needs to be reminded through such instances, I guess!

Fill Your Cup First, to Fill Others...

You have an important meeting and are already late for the office. On reaching your car park, you must return to your room where you left your keys. Every thought of your boss and his reactions to your failing to make it on time drives you crazy. Trying to avoid the traffic, you cross the speed limit and get a ticket. You somehow manage to reach the office to be welcomed by your teammates' cold looks and piercing eyes. You are late there. Though obvious and justifiable, your boss's reaction takes over your confidence and self-worth. You are handed a request, and you know you cannot afford to lose the job with those EMIs screening at the back of your mind that need to be honored regularly. Feeling down and low, you skip your lunch. By evening, you experience a headache, making you irritable and angry. Suddenly, there is a call reminder from your wife about your friend's evening party. You make her your sounding board and vent your anger and frustration on her. On reaching home, you realize how your anger had made your situation worse.

Our decision to move to the United States for good and the subsequent moving-house order of events brought a jolt of realization. It then hit us hard about how maximalism and consumerism had driven us to unnecessary clutter that mattered too little for a purposeful living. As rightly said, ‘Experience is the best teacher.’ This might be something we all know but needs to be reminded through such instances, I guess!