“I wish I wasn’t the world’s richest man. There is nothing good that comes out of that” told to the CNBC reporter, Donny Deutsch by none other than world’s richest man, Microsoft’s Chairman Bill Gates.
Even the world’s richest man has simple wishes like ordinary man. His desires are just to have meal at McDonald’s (no chance), shake a leg at the local disco (not if he want to be mobbed), hang around in malls (without a autograph seeking hordes) , mingle with crowd and share a joke & wants to roar his guts out rooting for his team at a football game.
Gates is not enjoying his publicity, actually. With great wealth he has great responsibilities and has to act as Santa Claus. He spent many sleepless nights deciding which charity is worthier one and deserves his money. Apart from that he is sad about his reading habit (reading war and peace for ten years) and not knowing current trends in IT. He would be happier writing the code for the next generation of video games. He misses his first love, technology.
[Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. December 7, 1978.]
What to conquer? When Gates was climbing up the ladder, he always wanted to achieve that little bit extra, run that extra mile, go a little further. Now that he is in top, where are the worlds to conquer?. Practically he is aimless. He rubs shoulders with princes and presidents are all these money really worth of it. He is facing a nothingness; how different is he from nothingness ?. What is he standing out from ? , nothingness. He is blaming himself for not having time to discover himself.
For all the reasons above Gates doesn’t want to be richest man on earth but second or third will de , after all money doesn’t matter to him anymore.
These are the sorrows exhibited by the most affluent man on the planet. Everybody, everything falls into the philosophy at the end. Whatever the man he is, work he do, when everything is achieved he would be falling into this nothingness. Even Alexander the Great had the same feeling when he conquered the entire world; should have felt the nothingness. Nothing to achieve, nothing to prove ,….
Even knowing this truth why should we try to achieve some thing in life ???.. If there is no meaning in achieving anything why try for that.. If nothingness is beyond everything what everyone doing is trying to reach nothingness.
Only few achieve this acme in there life time...
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sources courtesy: Business World
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