due importance

This morning I made tea. Myself. I still haven’t acquired the skill of straining and pouring it perfectly into the cup. It invariably spills on the kitchen slab. And I don’t care it much.

So, today also it spilled, rather badly. When I lifted the cup to have that first sweet sip, I saw the spills. With tea cup on my left hand, I picked up the mopping cloth in my right hand and in one stroke I cleaned the slab. Little did I realise that my left hand also moved to balance the right one and it spilled more on the kitchen floor. Rest is history.

That’s the dilemma I always face when I try to focus on multiple factors at the same time. I could have kept the cup on the slab securely and then wiped the slab first. But my urge to drink the hand-made tea was so high, I didn’t have patience. I could have drunk the tea first and then hunted around to clean the mess. But, by chance my wife appeared in the kitchen and seen the dirty patches on the slab while I was drinking tea, then the tea would not have tasted good anymore!

In one country they wanted to reduce human population. They brought in one-child policy for every couple. Followed ruthlessly for years. Nobody was pardoned, though it was not by their design but by simple mistake or just an accident to have the second child. Now the country is staring at its very old population which is of no much use. While they could lift the one child policy, in the interim they may have to think of eliminating a huge number of 80+ aged people. By hook or crook !!!

So, though it is a challenge, the best option is to focus on multiple factors when trying to do something seriously. Give due weightage and importance to each factor. It is difficult, but not impossible.

What happens when one goes for a body building act? Good diet, good work out and work, and good sleep.  Eat balanced diet at the same time hit the Gym and hit or pull as many equipment there for a good amount of time. Then the body will expand in all directions proportionately. If you focus only on diet and not much on the physical activity part, then you may turn out pot-bellied.

No doubt, development is good. Whether it is for mind, knowledge, body or even for a nation. But every parameter is thought about while a development strategy is worked out, especially for a nation or a state. The pace, the inclusivity, overall impact - all are looked into. Otherwise one will find a few pot-bellied people around with lots of their fellow countrymen starving, of course with their tummies but with conclave ones.