It is not like I am an avid follower or anything but this made sense so I had scheduled this post like 5 years back and it auto posted on 26th Dec 2024 🙂 Ravi Shankar suggests this five day programme to understand and improve your attitude towards life
Day 1: The first role which I would recommend to you is to be a School Teacher. To teach lessons to children who are not learning, you need a lot of patience. Being a nursery or primary school teacher, even for one day, you will see how you have to increase your patience.
Day 2: Be a Gardener or spend a day with a Farmer. If you are sowing the seeds, if you are watering the plants, you will know how you must care for water, earth and the environment. You will have a feeling for the environment. You will value food and you will not waste food. You know, what we do? We bring so much food, and we put it in the fridge and, after a few days in the refrigerator, we throw the food. We are wasting millions and millions of tons of food every day. We should not waste food. This we will learn if we spend one day being a farmer or a gardener.
Day 3: You should spend a day in the mental hospital. Whatever people talk in the mental hospital, you don’t mind. If they scold you, if they blame you, if they curse you, will you mind? You don’t mind because you are aware that this person is mentally sick. You know that many people are outside the hospital, but that does not mean they are mentally well. So, in life, you come across people who blame you for nothing, who are jealous or angry, who say things that make no sense. Then, you know, you will have the patience to deal with them with a smile. You will not take the garbage inside and spoil your mind. So one day if you spend in a mental hospital, you will know how to save your mind. You will stop being a football of others’ opinions
Day 4: One day you must go to a prison. Maybe it is shocking to you. You don’t have to do a wrong thing to go to a prison. Just go visit a prison, spend a little time with the prisoners. You will understand what compassion is. What helplessness is. Those people did a mistake without awareness. So you will know how you must have a say on your emotions.
Day 5: There are terminally ill people in the hospital. One day with them, and you will realize how precious life is. And you will start valuing health. You will eat better, you will exercise. You will do all that is needed to be more vibrant in your life.