Today, I was watching this movie called ‘Gladiator’. The movie is about this great general named Maximus who gives Rome, his motherland, the freedom from the rule of the emperors.
Well that is not the point.
Apart from many parts of the movie that are touching, there is this one particular dialogue by a servant of Maximus,
” sometimes I find time to do what I want to do, and rest of the times I do what I have to do”.
This particular dialogue got me started.
I thought that this is so true and almost started to pity my own-self, thinking that why is it that we hardly spare time for things that we care about and really want to do.
Is there something more important and more interesting or is it just like any other individual, that we will live and die doing things that we have to ?
I was thinking, and thinking as I was, I realized whose choice is it anyway to do what I have to do or what I want to do. Immediately the feeling of self-pity made way for a strong realization of strength. Now when I look back at my day today, I see that there was nothing that I did the whole day which was not my choice.
In fact, there has been nothing all my life that I had to do and not that I wanted to do..
I hope even you guys will spare some time for self-introspection and probably reply with something that you ‘HAD TO DO’.
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