When you hear from your friend " I became a Monk " 😮

Hello Everyone,

How is your week?

I would really love to hear how your week went and what things you are working on; if possible, let’s catch up sometime online and share your thoughts.

This week, I had some wild thoughts and learned a few lessons, such as that I should care for myself first rather than anyone else and I’m sadly saying that I’m not spending much time with my family, it has been more than two months since I met my parents, even though it’s just a 5-hour journey still I am not able to go and spend some time with them.

I’m just thinking on the paper that am I really busy or just acting like I am busy.

Highlights of this week 💫

This week I didn’t have much to say but yeah it was good

• Watched Cartoons after a long time

• I started Reading three books this week; I don’t know If I get bored, so I’m switching to another book, but yeah, those are really good.

• I got the opportunity for the podcasts that the guests would pay some money to be on my podcast.

• I moved to a Hostel; now I have more free time so that I can work on the things that matter.

• Called most of my friends

Learnings of the Week 🌱

Three days back, I got a call from an unknown number; if you ask my friends, they will say, I never lift calls from unknown numbers even though you call five times, but I lifted that call.

I didn’t hear any hello from the other side, so I started the conversation, who is this? he said his name was “*******”; I felt happy that it was my friend and he called me after a long time, and I just started what the heck you are doing man, where are you…

He said he was in Kasi; I thought he was on the tour since he does pooja a lot, so he went for the darshan, and I asked again what are you doing, man ? he said he was doing the meditation; I got a laugh and not now man, what are you working on? he said again he was doing meditation.

The voice was low, and I could feel that he was too low and kind of in a problem, and suddenly I asked if everything was okay. he said he needed 500 rupees. I said okay I’ll send but are you okay? and what you are doing in Kasi?

he again said he was doing meditation and they would give him free food at the ashram. at that moment I was shocked.

A year back, he called me and said Tarak, there are no jobs, and I don't know what to do, and he said he was going for some work that is not at all related to his studies but he kept going, I don’t know what happened, but after one year I got a call and he said he was in kasi and become a monk.

I asked one thing, why you didn’t call me before taking the decision? I’m here, man. Recently also, I hired a random person, and I’m giving like 18k salary. If you need help then I will definitely help.

Life is all about making decisions, and I told him if you make a decision, you shouldn't feel regret in the future.

And I asked him, what about your mom and dad, he said, my brother will take care.

Of course, man, he will take care… but after 10 years your brother got married and has two kids and is enjoying life and if you see that I don’t know about you, but I feel regret because we only live like 60 years and we should explore and experience everything as much as we can.

I asked him, is there any problem… are you suffering with something or what? but I didn’t get any reply from him.

because if you see, generally, people won’t make this kind of decision without thinking, and there must be a strong reason behind it, but yeah I don’t know that.

I couldn’t stop thinking about him, since we’ve been in college for three years.

I respect his decision, because I know he is not a dumb person to make silly decisions, there might be a strong reason but yeah we have to try our best to solve the issue, he should call me back then, or even I should call him so that it won’t happen

I feel really bad about myself because I was so fucking busy acting like I didn’t even have time to call my friends and ask what they were doing.

This is not the right way, everyone has time and no one is busy all day, I’m dedicating like three hours to this newsletter every week, maybe I can cut 30min and call him, it’s all about the priorities that you have and after knowing that I couldn’t help him when he is in need, I feel so bad.

One of the biggest lessons of this week, and it will be remembered for a long time, is to please call your friends and family and maintain healthy relationships because, in this business world, they are genuine people who don’t expect anything from you.

It feels kind of strange because a few of my classmates have got married, and they have kids. some have good jobs, some are doing masters, and some are just roaming here and there. Life is moving so fast… can’t we make it slow and experience it?

People are so obsessed with chasing money and forget to ask this one simple question: what's the point of life, and why am I here? Is it just to run for money, earn cores, and die, or to experience and enjoy life?

At the End of the day, it’s all about your story… When you are old and telling stories to your grandchildren and they don’t care if you say I have earned 100 cores of rupees, but they will listen when you say that you have done some silly thing at your college, or you have done something strange and stories like how you enjoyed those days with your friends. Those are the memories that you can’t buy with money.

It was really good, man, I thought to write something, but it ended like this…I feel so present at this moment and motivated and start winding up the memories. I wish I had a few more years of childhood where I used to watch Tom & Jerry ( I still watch now ), Play Hide and Seek, and Cricket. I don’t know how this newsletter is helping you, but it helps me a lot.

Let me know if it really helps you 🙂 

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Okay then, See ya later, my friend.

Tarak Ram