Are Travels Boring for You? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00My driver, I make it a point, he drives slowly, so that sitting on the rear seat, I do not get disturbed. Why?

00:08Because commutes take long, one hour, two hour, and I want to read.

00:13It's very possible to simply say I was traveling, so I was doing nothing in particular.

00:19And it's not that you're doing nothing at all, you're doing something. What are you doing?

00:23Staring out of the window, in between you just scroll through the feed, Facebook or something.

00:30Type something random on Instagram, ogle at some nice faces passing by.

00:34The fellow will be in visual range for 2.2 seconds, and yet the fellow becomes so important.

00:41Two seconds you stare, and then for two minutes you think.

00:45And the world can be an unending succession of pretty faces.

00:50Two hours will fly away.

00:53You did your entire journey doing nothing in particular.

00:57The name of the journey is life.

00:59Now death has arrived, and death asks, so tell me, how was it?

01:04What did you do?

01:06Well, nothing in particular.