No lunches are free lunches

By Anonymous -

Today, a friend of mine came to me. He asked me how I manage to do so many activities at a time, he said he envies me.
That brought me into this thinking process.
Am I really that much efficient to do all those things at once? Even If I am , I must lose something. The age old adage 'No lunches are free lunches' is correct always. What am I losing in the background?
To search this, I started stalking my friend and then the reality dawned over me. The life he was living.....it was simply awesome...the one I visualize everyday to live sometime in the future.
And yet he thinks he is unlucky not to be as efficient as me....But, in reality, I am the one who should envy his life.
He plays almost daily, he loves that sport and he gets to play it daily. Take me on the other hand, I was busy doing some stuff while all my friends were playing.  I miss playing, I do...but I am left with no choice.
We can never say that we are getting everything in our life, we never know the thing that deep down...somewhere...we are losing something...
He was talking with his family on phone today, enjoying some funmy moment that happened in their family. Then I realized,  I haven't even called my parents since last 10 days...and how can I be more lucky then...I saw him hanging out with his friends while I was running somewhere to bring some stuff for some project...
No lunches are free lunches....they never are...
U ought to give something to get some other. You need to sacrifice something to get something else in return, thats a universal rule. Everybody was envying me by my achievement in a sport, but deep down, that sport left me with a permanent physiological condition while all others are healthy...
Just an hour ago, I got a call to urgently plunge in for a work...and as I was going past the ground a ball came towards me and landed right in front of me....he was standing far away in the field hoping that I will shoot the ball to him.....and I also felt a strong urge to do so....but....but I didnt....I didnt...I moved forward and left that ball behind me....payed my price....of life.....
No lunches are free lunches...

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