Last night I had a wonderful conversation with a newly made friend. Impressed with her talks and way of thoughts, the chat went on for a long time and ended with a smile on my face. The communication was so intense that I got her in my dreams where we still were busy chatting. The last narration in my dreams remained fresh hence quoting it the way she said it to me:

The Dream:

“Imagine a bank account that credited Rs.86400 to your account every single day. You can do whatever you want to do with it. Spend it the way you want and wherever you want. And again every next day another Rs.86400 gets paid in your account. But here’s a catch! If you don’t spend Rs.86400 in a day you lose them all. The balance gets wiped off. You get another Rs.86400 credited for a new day but the balance of the previous day will get wiped off. What do you do if you get such a bank account?”

Wow Magicallll ! This was my first reaction of course accompanied with a big ear to ear smile !

I gave it a thought for a while. Coming from a Marwadi business community , I inherit business and money awareness to the core. Thus I answered, “I would open another bank account where the balance doesn’t get wiped off. Now I shall keep transferring all the amount everyday to this one so that I can use it the way I need and whenever I need,  without the fear of losing any.” We both simply laughed at this joke.

Well she expected some better answer and thus re-iterated, “This option doesn’t exist dear. One bank account. Now what do You do?”

Well, this time I thought of a few better answers like, Up-gradation in Business, World Tour, Studies, Spending them with family or for friends, celebrations, developments and many more in the bucket list.

She heard it patiently and said “What if I tell you such a bank exists in reality and you already have an account in it.”

For quite some time I surely had a confused feeling. I was surely amazed and sad that if such a thing existed then why am I not aware and why have i wasted so much of it already. I was also happy with the fact that surely I will die rich, and still have a lot to spend till I die. Lost in my thoughts, I suddenly heard the sound of my alarm bell ringing.

The Mixed Feeling:

Finally the dilemma was over, as it was just a dream and I woke up in half sleep mode to silent my alarm clock. I muted my table clock and like every day I kept staring at the clock, which showed the time as 4:30am, for a couple of minutes till I got my senses completely. Couple of thoughts everyday about time to be allotted for brushing and freshening up so that I’m ready after shower by 5:00am for my daily sessions and so on . With these thoughts, I kept staring at the second hand in the clock ticking second after second. Suddenly something struck my mind.

God knows why, maybe intuitively, I picked up my mobile phone and opened the calculator and simply multiplied 24 x 60 x 60. The answer I got was 86400. My eyes were wide open now. And in spite of overshooting on the time allotted for brushing, I was still sitting on my bed thinking about the number 86400. The Bank my friend was talking about in my dream was Time. Seemed as if I had struck the magical code. It was an OMG moment for sure!

Every single day we get 86400 seconds. 86400 seconds. 86400 is definitely a nice big number friend !

And we can do whatever we want with it. We can spend it the way we like it or use it most efficiently the way we plan. Spend it on Business, spend it sleeping or eating, with friends and family, studying and the list can go on. And when we haven’t used it wisely at the end of the day, it simply gets wiped. No rewind and no reuse. But the next day we get another set of 86400 seconds credited in our life. We can use them the way we want. Wow!

With this idea and thinking about it, the first thing was “Oh my god, I have already wasted 10 minutes of this morning simply doing nothing.” After that I got back to my mundane but with surely a different approach henceforth.

The Key of the Dream:

Now that’s the key. Life is not about wasting time just because you have another set of 86400 seconds coming your way. But it’s about living every moment to the fullest, growing your experience every single second, celebrating and cherishing the joyous moment with family and friends, upgrading and developing yourself the way you want the world  to recognize you, learning from every single difficult moment, networking with friends to improve your personality, travelling and collecting infinite memories. Life is about leveraging time, so that you are not doing the things you are not needed to be doing.

To understand the Goal of life technically refer to: https://thepositivediary.com/goal-of-life-is-life-itself/

There is a famous saying by Chetan Bhagat, which says “The amount of bank balance you have at the time of your death, shows the extra hard work you did which you were not suppose to do.”

Similarly, when you check the statement of the above bank account at the time of death, it surely should bring a smile saying the Life Well Spent!!

Akshay Kothari… Silence spoken!