The Balloon Bursts at 40 || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Mid-life crisis: The return of the Truth || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)

Transcript

00:00The midlife crisis that you experience at the age of 35 or 40 or 45 is actually something

00:06that gets initiated decades earlier.

00:09It got initiated when you entered class 11th and you didn't know whether to go for commerce

00:16or science or medicine or arts or whatever.

00:19And then somebody told you, you pick up this particular stream and you will be happy.

00:24And you just didn't know anything, you enrolled into a particular stream.

00:28That's when the whole thing began.

00:30And then it kept snowballing.

00:32As you kept moving on in life, it just kept getting bigger and bigger like a balloon inflating

00:38in size.

00:39But the balloon cannot keep gaining volume infinitely, a time comes, a day comes when

00:45it just rests.

00:46That's what we call as midlife crisis.

00:48All hot air is what the life of a youngster is about.

00:52Just hot air, gas, a lot of gas.

00:55And gas can't survive for too long.

00:58Ever seen an everlasting balloon?

01:00But then that's what we are all busy blowing up.