A Piece from My Life by Nikhil Jhanwar

The Biggest Luxury You Never Noticed This Sunday, I am chilling at home. My only job is to handle my wife and her kids (mine too). No alarm, No specific agenda. But did you ever notice, how many of us have this freedom to take Sunday Off? Or rather choose so many things ! The food we eat. The city we vacation in. The school for our kids. The outfit at the mall. We choose. Every single time. Now think about the Security guard of my society. Same chair, Same post.  Every Single Day. He always regards me with a smile on his face. Same is the case with many such auto-walas, vegetable vendors etc. While, I chose to chill on Sunday, They didn't have that choice. Now, think about it. Getting to choose something itself is not a small thing. That's an ultimate Luxury. Most of the time, we have the luxury to choose or reject from multiple options. And with time, we start treating it as our entitlement. One small compromise, and we react as if the heavens have fallen. The fre...

  Losing Control — On a Moving Train The train started from the platform and something in my mind tinkered.   For odd four hours now, there is nothing I can do. No call to chase. No file to close. No meeting to run. The train will reach when it reaches. And strangely — I feel free. As humans, We are insanely engineered to control Everything. Control over time — we cannot sit idle, not even for five minutes (count me in). Control over situations — they must always turn in our favour. Control over things. Over people. Over relationships. That is why We reach for an quick escape every time.  TV, a Movie, the phone, an outing, someone to talk to,  hobby. We on a continous mission to  fill the vaccum of our mind space .  Even At home and at the office,  We are always holding the wheel tightly. We are inherently afraid that if we let go for one second, everything will crash. But then this train journey. Outside my routine. I am writing this on a running tra...