A Couple went to Terrace to commit suicide in COVID Times – an Eye-Opening Story. Lessons for Investors

3^rd August 2020

A Couple went to Terrace to commit suicide in COVID Times – an Eye-Opening Story. Lessons for Investors

Dear Fellow Travelers,

Namaste! July ended with a heavy gain in Nifty and Sensex. Hope you have enjoyed the rally. Our last post on EDUCATION SYSTEM change thanks to RAHU movement has been appreciated for out accuracy and timely guidance. I thank all the readers for taking their time to read my post and appreciate our efforts.

Today I am sharing a realistic story and it has a really good learning lesson for investors.

COVID 19 and Suicide Cases: -

Thanks to lockdown, the middle class faced the toughest time. They suffered in two ways mainly. The first was the loss of income and second was staying home for 24*7. When income goes down or remains low and expenses are the same – naturally the atmosphere in the home becomes tense. The blame game starts. Due to restrictions of lockdown, you can’t go out and that also affects the EGO – as independence is affected. These mainly results in the fights with the family members.

Those family whose Members suffered COVID -19 are not that much affected by the lockdown as they got the reason to blame the COVID-19. But those who did not suffer – they blamed the MODI GOVERNMENT or their family members.

I would say – “If you or your Close RELATIVE has not SUFFERED by COVID-19, then you have suffered by LOCKDOWN without fail.”  

One such family suffered due to lockdown and they went for SUICIDE on the Terrace. They decided to jump from the Terrace at the count of 3.

So, 1, 2 and 3 – HUBAND Jumped. The wife didn’t.

Wife kept on watching the Husband falling down. Just after 8 seconds – Husband opened the PARACHUTE to save his life.

Now the questions come……

 

1.    Who CHEATED – wife or husband? You may say both cheated each other.  

2.    If they were bored with each other – they could have parted their ways in their home only – amicably. Why these NATAK of SUICIDE or cheating?

Market and Investors: -

The above is a ZEN KOAN. They are given to the students to test their progress in the ZEN. The objective is not to get the correct answer but to test the attitude of a student.

Let us see a couple as Normal Investors.

Normal investor comes to the market for investments and wealth creations. But he has his own doubts, hypocrisy, and dishonesty within like husband and wife. He wants an EASY way out. There is no EASY way in LIFE and INVESTMENTS. There are SIMPLE WAYS but SIMPLE ways are not necessarily EASY.

If normal investor jumps in the market like HUSBAND – he will find out the reason for not staying in the market / for not exploring the market with an open mind and he will use those reasons (like PARACHUTE) to get out of the market. It can be any foolish reason or fall in the market.

He may come to the market but keep waiting on the FENCE like a WIFE – watching other people making money or losing. He will make judgments about MARKET-based on other people’s observations. Even he doesn’t know what is happening to the people in reality. (wife will not come to know the pain or pleasure of Husband using a parachute). She will just assume that he cheated her.

If you think - Husband and Wife in the above story lost faith after they saved each other in the futile suicide attempt, then you are 100% wrong. They did not have faith when they decided to go to the terrace in the first place. The Suicide attempt just proved their judgment that their partner is not TRUSTWORTHY.  

The same way normal investor does not lose money in the market. He has lost it before he enters the market due to his – unpreparedness / unrealistic expectations and lack of guts. He is destined to lose. Just that Market is taking the blame.

What NEXT?

There is a Saying – What you Sow, is what, you will reap. Be honest with yourself. You can’t cheat Market. You are cheating yourself only. Your hidden agenda, hypocrisy, and cheating will make you naked in the market sooner or later.

Make your choice.

Have a happy investing.

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Hitesh Parikh.