As each of us have only 24 hours a day at our disposal, many of them devoted to earning our livelihood & daily chores, the problem is how best to utilise the rest so that our minds are cultivated to the fullest. It is obvious that there is time only for the best. So one has to be extremely fastidious.
No rushing off to watch the latest flick or to read the current best seller or to attend the gig of the latest pop-star. Here it can be noted that the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa was given a ticket to a good seat for a Beatles show. But he never heard them because of the screams of their fans!
Fortunately the best in all fields have proven their worth by the test of time, giving us a template to choose from. Even in cricket, every player has declared that the Test format is the best but still, just for cheap thrills, crowds throng to T20s. There is plenty of time for meretricious films & books but not for classics. Such is the alienation from great culture even in the west that most find Bunyan, Dickens, George Eliot et al unreadable!
In the "liberated" west, even in human relationships, fastidiousness is not employed but casual promiscuity rules the roost, leading to untold miseries as we are seeing in the news.
Using the reason & logic bestowed on us, if we decide to enjoy only the very best that the world has to offer, one finds that one has always enough time for all our interests.
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