I was travelling in once......

if i have all the money in the world, am i going to be rich ? if i have got nothing, am i poor? there are times in my life when i chase time and leave behind the obvious, the trivial , the ordinary......here is a hypothetical engineer guy who studied hard all his life, went to the best institutions, got the best degrees and supposedly the best education.....he even went on to grab the best job available.....nowadays, he makes buckets full of money....he just doesn't have the time to spend it....nope, me not the guy, neither I am engineer.....but i feel the plight...am so short of time that i have resorted to spending money on pace not on peace.....long walks, train travel is taboo...romance of steam engine is a forgotten past....so i drive....i take cab....i hang in mid air most of the time & practice "height & distance" calculations....mind you they are very expensive.....i don't make great deal of money, but neither do i have the luxury nowadays, to spend it for small nothings that give me so much pleasure.....far away from my land, in the cities of perceived dreams, i saw american men and women cultured enough to draw the line between work and home.....i saw french people work for only 35 hrs a week .....i saw spanish people have their siesta.....does everyone has such cultural push???? we, indians work most of the time, but we do get bored sometimes....i saw chinese and japanese to work all the while....i am not a person who doesn't understand the 'power' and 'responsibility' to excel but here i see, that as indian, as indian companies, as indian persons employed in multinationals, even in indian restaurants, there is a madness to excel with the power of physical effort....excellence is a process defined by effort and not necessarily by the human mind....sometimes, this mad rush, this overwhelming leniency for personal space and time, leads to thought of escapism...but as always the next day dawns with reality as an excuse..i do know labour is still the biggest export for countries like india and china ..but it is always the human body and not the mind which is sold ..guess, it has more to do with abundance ..now i am back to my country, things are better....at times networks stop working, power is unavailable sometimes, there is traffic to cut the pace of my life and i throw away my laptop, my mobile and everything that has the promise to keep me connected and enjoy my beer & my time with me.....but will i ever get sleep without my phone ringing???? the answer is yes (if i am drunk)
' Once in a while, the mind should be empty;of thoughts and the heart, bereft of love..such solitude is a source of true happiness'