Gratification is an important aspect in human behaviour.
Primarily it is instant gratification and delayed gratification. As humans we
are always tempted to take decisions which suits us now, without thinking about
its ramifications. It is not that this behaviour is prevalent only in teenage or
early 30s, but repetitive thing. Looking back at your life retrospectively will
help you understand what I am talking about. Think it this way – compare you
and your parents and probably the coming generation too – our parents used to
first earn money, then save it and then spend on whatever surplus they had. On
the other hand, we first spend money and earn to payback the same and then save
some if at all there is some surplus available. In a way our parents got
delayed gratification. It’s important to realize that we give in more to
instant gratification.This principle of instant and delayed gratification is
applicable in all aspects of our life. Be it marriage, financial investment,
career decisions etc. We need to win the war over instant gratification and
need to envision what are the long term goals of our life. What is that we must
to now, so that we reap a much better yield after 10-15 years? I am not a
proponent of always being in the future and ruin your present, but having long
term goals as well the attitude to safeguard your present will help your
overcome this. I for one believe that we will have to find a middle path
between instant and delayed gratification, because neither of them can keep us
happy always. Its important that we don’t sink in to the marshland of debt and
misery and neither do we ruin our present by over-thinking of the unforeseen
future. Stay afloat is what I have learnt in life.In my subsequent blogs I will share more details on how I have
lost and gained from either of these behaviours. Here I am sharing these
articles which I came across and found then good leisurely reads:
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