***Ratan Tata's Last Words***
I have achieved great heights in the business world. To others, my life seems like a success. However, I have no happiness aside from work. Money is merely a reality I utilize. At this point, lying on a hospital bed, reflecting on my entire life, I realize that the recognition and wealth I was proud of have become meaningless in the face of death.
You can hire someone to drive your car or make money for you, but you cannot hire someone to bear your suffering or die for you. Lost material possessions can be found. However, there's one thing that, once lost, is never found again: life.
In life, at any stage we are in, the day will come when the heart stops beating. Love your family, spouse, and friends... Treat them well, don’t deceive them, always be honest. As we grow older and wiser, we gradually realize that wearing a watch worth Rs. 300 or Rs. 3,000,000 - they both tell the same time.
Whether you drive a Rs. 5,000,000 car or a Rs. 50,000,000 car, the road and distance remain the same, and we reach the same destination. Whether our house is 300 square feet or 3,000 square feet, the loneliness is the same. True inner happiness does not come from material things.
Whether you travel first class or economy class, if the plane goes down, you go down with it. So... I hope you have friends, siblings, and you talk to them, laugh with them, sing with them, talk about happiness and sorrow with them, that is true happiness!
Life's undeniable truth: Teach your children to be happy, not to be rich. When they grow up, they will know the value of things, not their cost.
What is life? To understand life well, there are three places:
Hospital
Jail
Cemetery
In the hospital, you understand that there is nothing better than health. In jail, you see how valuable freedom is. And in the cemetery, you realize life is worth nothing.
The land we walk on today will not be ours tomorrow. So let’s behave respectfully and be thankful to our parents for everything we received.
Can you share this message with someone else? And I love my parents, brothers, sisters, my relatives, neighbors, friends, family, my community, my country. May everyone be blessed. May everyone be well.”
That was heavy. Does it make you think of your own priorities?
