Life is a combination of phases and it is important to enjoy all of them...

"You're in ur 9th grade, a grown up kid... u better start taking life a bit seriously","Yes Mom".
By the time u realise what being serious meant, u enter the 10th grade, BOARD EXAM... that is when life has only one motive - STUDIES !! From teachers to parents... from seniors to girlfriend... everyone tells u to study.. irrespective of how much they scored when they were preparing for the same... u r in the middle of ur 10th and ur dad comes to u..."Son, science or commerce ?","dad i haven't really given it a thought but i feel Arts is my stream"... "WHAT ??"
By the time u get done with ur 10th ... 12th.. u have to take another important dicision as to what course and even important what college u wanna get into? And the run starts again...
Now, u've got what u wanted... good college, course of ur interest by the time u reach ur TY... Dad - "son i think u should join the MBA classes, for u shud start preparing for it, it shall get u a good career..."
Okay, now that u've done ur MBA, u sit in an office where u work 10 hrs a day.. and now that u're 'SETTLED' u have to get married, or else the society would crucify u....35, u have 2 kids and a wife,offcourse... still busy working, after all u've gotto pay bills, house rent, home loan,etc ... 45, your kids have grown up... 'I THINK MY CHILD SMOKES AND DRINKS'
The worry ends as the child grows up complets his MBA Degree and becomes a 'SETTLED' man...by then its time for u to retire and get engaged with the old - age Health problems...
That how we've been told to live and thats how probably we would live... but is that really all we should be doing....where is the time for urself ??
where is the time to smile, laugh, express ??
Did u ever enjoy the thrill of a road trip, mountaineering, skiing, camps, the trill that u get when u hit the football ground early morning and kick the ball through the dew drops.. the thrill that tells u to keep going... the thrill that even at 80 tells u to follow ur heart and not what society wants u to do....
I shall request all my known to start living for the moment, life is uncertain, lets enjoy every bit of it, let there be joy, let there be excitement, let there be passion, let there be 'life'...
(Movie suggested - 'The Fastest Indian')