WHEN TO STOP RUNNING?

For this article, additions made from time to time are at the bottom.

AMBITIONS - people have.
CAPABILITIES - people have.
DIRECTION - people have.
EFFORTS - people have.

FAVOURABLE ENVIRONMENT - part of the environment beyond the control of the individuals.

ACHIEVEMENTS - Combined result of all the five above.

As long as all the five are CONGRUENT, a person achieves SELF ACTUALISATION ( A person, becoming what he is capable of becoming).

Recently, a highly ambitious youth bought a poster reading as under:-

"Every morning in Africa a deer wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest deer or it will starve to death.

It does not matter if you are a lion or a deer. When the Sun comes up you would be better by running."

A Google search for the creator of the saying, which the poster used yielded 19,800 results with the above lines repeated after minor changes.

In some web sites, the deer became a gazelle. Verbs have been changed. Some mentioned that the quote is anonymous.

If we reckon the number of visitors to all these sites and purchasers of posters in 190 countries of the U.N.O, the number of human beings running will be in millions.

Some analysts can always say that the God prescribed his creatures whether animals or humans to run day in and day out, to survive.

Why some people stop running in the middle, when they have to run ceaselessly, is not clear.

The renowned management expert Abraham Maslow popularised the term "SELF ACTUALISATION" in his HIERARCHY OF NEEDS.

After the self-determined/perceived point of self actualisation is reached, an individual may stop running.

IMPORTANT
For basic needs like food, clothing, shelter and old age security, there is no beginning or end of slogging and there is no meaning of self actualisation. Birth is the beginning. Death is the end.

SUMMARY
If one can afford to stop running, and if he chooses to stop, one will be tempted to hold it as a 10/10 sensible step.