Coffee, Cashewnuts and Common Sense

I am flying from Calcutta to Guwahati in Spice Jet.
39000 feet above sea level.
I am in God’s hand now. Literally and figuratively.
I have a new habit now. Having coffee with cashew nuts
on a plane flying 40 some thousand feet above earth at a
speed of around 800 kms.
While taking off they made an announcement ,
“kindly switch off your mobile phones.”
Normally I wouldn’t heed that sort of a request.
But, the catch was, they said, “you mobile phone can
hamper functioning of our equipments.”
I thought, there is one in a million chance of my mobile
hampering the functioning of the instruments of the plane.
So I switched it off.
Life is precious you know. If not other’s life,
at least mine.
Man is very good at taking care of himself. Family, kids,
friends come afterwards. But first and foremost man is very
good at looking after himself. That’s how mankind has survived
so far. We have outlived many creatures, stronger, bigger.
Because man is very, very selfish. That’s the secret of our survival and success.
But life would be so simple and easy for everybody if we
obey some rules and principles. Like I did for that announcement
to switch off the mobile phone.
But why, normally, we don’t obey rules?
Because we don’t know the price we are paying for not obeying the rules.
Somebody in my team started arguing with me about some of Ankur’s directives.
I simply told him, “I succeeded only because I followed my leader’s
advice without questioning. I will do it until the end. So, if you want to argue,
please spare me because I am just a robot which follows directions from Ankur.
So either it’s our way or we are out of your life.”
That silenced him and hopefully gave him some understanding of the
mechanisms of success.
Like the mobile incident mentioned above, why don’t we follow time
tested rules and succeed faster?
Because, this is the same instinct which makes you smoke cigarettes,
knowing it can cause cancer; drink alcohol knowing it can cause you ill
health plus bad social life, we eat junk knowing well that without proper
nutritious food we will not have the energy or health to live a vibrant and happy life.
It’s called self destruct mechanism.
God was afraid we may become stronger than him one day, so he put this
trait of self-destruction so that we remain humans. (See, God is also afraid of
competition.
Ask me how I know this. I have self destructed my life so many times, only my
thick hide saved me from going in to oblivion. I have mastered that art.
So common sense is not so common, my friends.
Have common sense and follow the MVT super highway by following your
deserving leader, I repeat, deserving leader, whom you trust.
This way you can go the blessed way of realising your dreams of
“Getting what you want” by “helping enough other people get what they want.”
Don’t be an idiot like I was and still sometimes I am.
Even after this blog, you want to try it, be my guest.