time and money

there was a time when everything seemed very smooth...but those were the times when there was no tv, no mobile phones, no cars, yet things were nice. there was a certain importance to life away from work. people worked for the stipulated hours and then their time was meant for leisure. but today work seems to be everything. someone calls you at 10 in the night about something at work. you are trying to watch a nice movie in a theatre and some bloody client calls you ten times in the middle of the show. ofcourse you dont answer and then he will accuse you of not picking up his calls. you come back home and are trying to relax over a warm cup of tea and some stupid guy from the project managers office calls you and wants some detials right now for his boss who is having a meeting in bangalore. how do you care? and the details are anyway in the office and you cannot give them now. so you tell him 10 tomorrow morning. he will again call up at ten and ask you have you mailed the details? what do they think they are. a majority of the pwople in the professional world do not understand a very simple thing. if their time is money, then the other person's leisure time is also money for him in a different way and they should better learn to respect that. my leisure gives me better mental and physical health and keeps me away from doctors and medicines. i have heard stories that in some parts of the western world you call a person on a weekend and he promptly reminds you that its his holiday/leisure time and you better call when work hour starts again. when will we learn to behave like that? architects should start telling their clients no to meetings on weekends and late evenings. vendors should learn to tell their customers no to unreasonable demands about fast service. we should all learn to respect each other's leisure time and get the belief out of our minds that money is everything. their is no use of moeny without good health. dont we all agree to it?