Though this question inspires as many answers as people asked, everyone ultimately wishes to achieve the same thing. Recently, I met one of my old students and got talking. We met after some years and while catching up, the student told, he had started focusing more and more on himself as he grew older. Earlier, he used to think that is a selfish thing to do, but now he knew that is only by focusing on own self that he could focus on the important things of life – his family, his work, and all the things he held dear. So true, he had hit upon an important eternal truth. So often we make the mistake of giving importance to everything else in life at the cost of our own selves. We go off on a tangent chasing a passion or a need, forgetting that life calls for balance. We think there is plenty of time for that later, but that time never comes for those who put it off. It is a matter of attitude and of prioritizing. The truth is that everything we seek and chase is a means to