"In the battle of priorities/choices, it is always you who loses."
Among the many dilemmas that man faces, one is the age long battle of priorities between family and career. Two highly important facets of human life and always at loggerheads with each other. Since both require absolute dedication it is difficult to divide time between the two. What makes it much more difficult is that both of these are two of the most important components of one's life. Now lets judge the either side’s arguments.
Family should be the obvious choice for it is where you are supposed to return back. While career can provide you with fame and other materialistic goodies, it can never bring you the pure happiness that your family gives you. However rich or famous may you be, at the end of the day it is always the family you turn towards in search of untampered love and care. Moreover it is one's duty to repay back to your family all that has been done for you. And overlooking your family for your career is utter betrayal.
Career ought to be the obvious choice. Something else comes before your family, that is the mankind. All of us have some responsibilities towards mankind. We need to devote ourselves to our work so that we can be responsible for the advancements of tomorrow that would make life easier for the generations to come. And family is a major hindrance towards such devotion because it prevents you from taking risks - which is the basis of all great achievements.
However you might argue, it is very difficult to choose one of the two. Take the case of most of the great people in history, their private lives had been highly unsuccessful. And people who have had very good personal lives have rarely contributed to the mankind. Whatever you may choose (because you have to one day), ultimately you will be the loser because you will have to give up one thing or the other.
1 comment:
its true that one need to set priorities in life but that doesnt mean you
always are a loser in doing so....if one has a very clear view of what he
aspires in life,if he knows what can satiate his soul,if he can regonize that
reason which is most vital to him .....there is no space for regret...
If a person is too passionate abt acheiving something ,he would be so
drowned in the pursuit that he would never realize the vaccum if unfortunately
created by absence of family ties.Similarly a Family man would sweat to bring a smile on his loved ones lips.obviuosly he needs to concentrate on his career but again not at the cost of strained relations.Besides why do u forget that its ones loved ones who prove to be the greatest impetus for melioration in carrer prospective.Its more about knowing ones passions and beleiving in them.
You wrote "And people who have had very good personal lives have rarely
contributed to the mankind.".well are the scientific inventions,literary
collections,the works in the fields of mathematics,space,artificial
intelligence etc etc are the only contributions to mankind.If a man is happy
within and can spread the word of happiness around,i consider that no less
contribution.A saying by Charles Dickens goes as follows
"If we cannot strew life's path with flowers,
We can at least strew it with smiles."
A man who concertrates on his family and has a great personal live is happy and ensures that (at the minimum) people around him are at peace. when we take history as reference ,we tend to forget that such trifle yet valuable
contributions are never noted.why forget "gift of life is life itself" and a
life well lived is one of the greatest achievements.
A person whether he has great professional achievements or special family moments is never a loser unless there creeps a regret factor.So a man is not a loser if he has to choose between things but rather is one when he starts regretting abt having done so....
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