MASTI — PART 06

MASTI WE LIVE BY OUR PLEASURES, NOT OUR PRIORITIES PART 6 You say health is your priority. Where is it in your day? You say family is your priority. Where is it in your time? You say learning is important. What are you learning? You say peace matters. Why are you feeding things that continuously disturb it? We all have a list of priorities. But there is another list we rarely write: OUR PLEASURE LIST. And sometimes that invisible list controls far more of our lives than the one we proudly declare. Dr. Abhishek Gilara challenges one of the most comfortable beliefs we carry: That we always live according to our priorities. We don’t. Not always. Our conscious mind may decide what is important, but our repeated habits, familiar behaviours, immediate rewards and learned pleasures exert enormous influence over what we actually do. That is why: “I should” does not always become “I did.” And why: “From tomorrow” so often becomes another tomorrow. But this book is not about eliminating pleasure. It proposes something far more powerful: TRAIN YOUR PLEASURES. Learn to enjoy becoming stronger. Learn to enjoy learning. Learn to enjoy creating. Learn to enjoy keeping your commitments. Learn to enjoy family time. Learn to enjoy inner peace. Learn to enjoy progress. Learn to enjoy becoming better. Because when the things that build you also begin giving you masti, discipline stops being a lifelong fight between what you want now and what you want eventually. Your conscious mind makes the promise. Your repeated actions cast the votes. Your habits count them. And your life eventually announces the result. So don’t only ask: “What are my priorities?” Ask the question that may reveal far more: “WHAT HAVE I TRAINED MYSELF TO ENJOY?” Bring your pleasure list and your priority list closer together. Because the most powerful discipline may not be forcing yourself forever to do what you dislike. It may be training yourself until you begin to love more of what makes you better.