The Balloon Bursts at 40 || Acharya Prashant

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

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

00:06initiated decades earlier. It got initiated when you entered class 11th and you didn't know

00:15whether to go for commerce or science or medicine or arts or whatever and then somebody told you,

00:20you pick up this particular stream and you will be happy and you just didn't know anything you

00:26enrolled into a particular stream. That's when the whole thing began and then it kept snowballing

00:32as you kept moving on in life. It just kept getting bigger and bigger like a balloon inflating in size

00:39but the balloon cannot keep gaining volume infinitely. A time comes, a day comes when it just

00:46that's what you call as midlife crisis. All hot air is what the life of a youngster is about. Just hot

00:53air. Gas. A lot of gas. And gas can't survive for too long. Ever seen an everlasting balloon? But then

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