Going through a process or activities
is one kind of joy, achieving the result in desired term is another. We
generally associate joy exclusively with the final outcome. Playing a tennis or
a football is a joyful activity while wining is another kind.
Why should we want the joy and sense
of fulfillment we get from winning? An exclusive concern with only winning sucks
the life out of games.
We have desires. We make our best
effort to fulfill it. But we should make sure that we enjoy the best efforts
made too rather than it’s only fruits.
There are those who make efforts and
remain tense unless they achieve the desired result. They exhaust themselves,
loose energy and some precious moments of life and surroundings while performing
the activities and enjoy only after winning. I feel this is not correct. Joy is
a continual sense or a feeling of wining at last.
For example when you decide that you
will be happy only when you become the director of your company you are working
for. Then you are postponing the moment of your happiness to a point in the
future. You will be happy only when you attain that position.
In so many engineering/science
projects with completion date of 2-3 years, engineers &scientists enjoy and
celebrate all major milestone activities and also celebrate the final
activities on completion of the projects. Celebration and enjoyment in process
rejuvenate you for your next activities and successful completion.
Failure is a fact of life. In some we
win and in some we lose. Therefore let us enjoy our efforts too rather than
enjoying only the outcome.
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