A print advertisement selling a second home near Mumbai portrays a celebrity saying something like “Buying a home here means Har Din chhutti…”
This may mean that the amenities there may allow the occupants to enjoy a relaxing holiday every day.
Owning a luxurious second home at a premium resort-like complex and looking for “Har Din Chhutti” are paradoxical to each other. Those aspiring for the latter are unlikely to be able to afford the former. Generally, fruits of affluence in life are reaped by those who put in hard work and effort, not by those who look for “Har Din Chhutti”. Buying a luxurious second home is possible only through hard-earned money earned through one’s own hard work unless one is endowed with a generous inheritance or receives a lottery-like windfall. Such a privilege is generally out of reach for the indolent ones who prefer to enjoy a holiday every day instead of working.
Also, it is a disturbing testimony to our collective psyche which celebrates “not working.” As a nation, we have a large pool of people who aspire for a “Sarkari Naukri” which means an easy job with lots of benefits and holidays with minimal work or commitment.
Such aspirations of “Har Din Chhutti” or “Sarkari Naukri” cannot make any country prosperous.
Nation-building requires hard work, commitment and continuous efforts from all. An attitude of shirking our responsibility and seeking an easy, work-free life will make us a lazy, unproductive lot and our nation a playground for a bunch of crooks who will rule us by handing out meagre doles to us in the form of freebies and building their own personal wealth.
If we want to weed out such unscrupulous and utterly corrupt elements from our system, we must change our attitude towards work. Every nation that has prospered has worked for it. It is not possible by aspiring for Har Din Chhutti.