What Really Matters

In our day to day life we do a lot of things, we meet a number of people, we undergo a number of emotions. Many times we wonder if our life is taking the right direction.
Many times we realise that we are not happy with how things turned out for us or how things
turned out in our relationships.
How do we make things work for us? How do we be happy at the end of the day? By doing things that really matters and being with people who really matters.
How do we know what really matters and who really matters?
If you are a person who wants to give back to society, you can take hints from the following
story:
Once there was a very powerful king. He had many wise people as his ministers. He was a very wise and learned person himself. Once his son asked him three questions.
1) What is the most important time in my life?
2) Who is the most important person in my life?
3) What is the most important work in my life?

The King thought for a long time but he could not find the answers. He asked all his learned
ministers. None of their replies satisfied him. He announced a fortune for anyone who could give him satisfactory answers to the questions. Still, he could not get satisfactory answers.
One of his ministers told him that there was a very learned hermit who lived in the jungle nearby. So he went to meet the hermit.
On the way he was attacked by a rival king. As he was not prepared for the attack he got badly hurt. The hermit who heard the noise found the wounded king and nursed him back to health. The king got better and he came to know that the person who had saved him is the hermit who he had come to ask the questions.
He thanked the hermit and asked him the three questions.

The hermit smiled at him and said. "Well son, the most important time in your life is now or the present. You cannot change your past or you do not know what your future has for you. So now is the most important time. Use it well. The most important person in your life is the person you are with at the moment. You do not know if you will be alive to be with somebody else and the most important work in your life is to do good to the person you are with at the moment."