Former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who we lovingly also called MSD, played his last match of IPL 2025 for Chennai Super Kings against Gujarat Titans. One obvious question post-match was – “Is this your last match in IPL?”
As always, his answer left everyone flabbergasted. He said, “What is the hurry to decide on this? I have plenty of time until the next season to decide. Why should I take a decision now?”
Though everyone in the press conference laughed over it. I thought he gave an important learning.
The way we are moving in the fast-paced world, each one of us seems to be in a hurry. Through the day we are in a hurry – to finish morning work so that we can reach office in time; to complete allocated task as next one is already lined up; to reach home to take care of household chores for the evening; post meals to look up the social media.
Other things we seem to be hurry in – finish meeting a friend as something else is waiting to be done; complete studies so that we can start looking at job opportunities; join classes to appear for competitive exams; lose 10 kilos in one month to become slim; become rich; to fire people without understanding their perspectives; file for divorce as things are not working out; break relationships as other person is not giving space; to hop careers as current one doesn’t seem to be giving the desired success; reach state of ‘nothing’ by meditating; do yoga asanas as seen on Instagram; and so on!
It seems no one wants to slow down, have patience, be consistent and take decisions after having thought about all possibilities. Everything seems to have become too impulsive and instant.
In 90% of the situations, we take can always wait and we need not hurry over decisions. 10% can be the ones, which are emergencies and choices must be taken now.
I think we need to all take a step back and think like MSD – Do we really need to take a decision NOW? Or can it wait! I can promise you that if you wait, think, analyze all perspectives and take a decision, you will be glad you did so!
The question is – ARE YOU WILLING TO ASK YOURSELF – WHY HURRY?
