Disillusioned...
Can't believe its been such a long time since I have blogged! Have undergone lot of changes during this period of half a year. Seen Mumbai (not fully though), met bright people who are driven towards achieving their goals(which is usually to earn more and more), met knowledgeable people who are stuck with a wrong job, met confused people (like me) who don't have the slightest clue where their lives are heading to and I met people who have attained 'nirvana' and are just doing what they have been doing for a long time.
I once asked my friend Mr. KVK, what he would like to do if there was really no need for him to earn money. He simply said, nothing. Then I questioned him further, how can one survive by doing nothing. He told me that it was quite simple and he is just waiting to reach that stage. However, I, in turn, thought wheher one can ever reach that stage. There is no end to this game of earning money. One's lifestyle can keep improving and the standards of comparison would also keep moving upwards. But the option lies always in our hands to either choose work life balance or either of the extremes.
Nowadays, whenever I talk to any friend of mine, the conversation inherently revolves around work - what is he doing, what am I doing, how was appraisal, how much was the increment in salary, what are others doing, how much are they earning, what is the correlation between one's qualifications, experience and salary, which industry is going which direction in recession blah...blah. I have literally got tired of such talks. There seems to be nothing in life apart from work. The other favourite topic in my age group is marriage - what are your future plans, whether your parents have started the 'ultimate' search, love vs arranged marriage, etc.
I want to get away from these 2 boring domains and get into learning something new. Something new for me would be any area of study, be it psychology, philosophy, para-physics, or para-normal science. There is so much in this universe to know, that I find myself an insignificant part of it. There is so much that I want to do for others, which is all getting ignored because all I concentrate upon is my work (and there is still so much to learn at work!).
Discipline is the key to learning, which i realize but fail to implement. Apart from making fun of the people around us and cribbing about the work culture at office(which is also needed to vent out the buiding frustration and work related stress), what is important is time allocation, dedication and the drive to learn!
I once asked my friend Mr. KVK, what he would like to do if there was really no need for him to earn money. He simply said, nothing. Then I questioned him further, how can one survive by doing nothing. He told me that it was quite simple and he is just waiting to reach that stage. However, I, in turn, thought wheher one can ever reach that stage. There is no end to this game of earning money. One's lifestyle can keep improving and the standards of comparison would also keep moving upwards. But the option lies always in our hands to either choose work life balance or either of the extremes.
Nowadays, whenever I talk to any friend of mine, the conversation inherently revolves around work - what is he doing, what am I doing, how was appraisal, how much was the increment in salary, what are others doing, how much are they earning, what is the correlation between one's qualifications, experience and salary, which industry is going which direction in recession blah...blah. I have literally got tired of such talks. There seems to be nothing in life apart from work. The other favourite topic in my age group is marriage - what are your future plans, whether your parents have started the 'ultimate' search, love vs arranged marriage, etc.
I want to get away from these 2 boring domains and get into learning something new. Something new for me would be any area of study, be it psychology, philosophy, para-physics, or para-normal science. There is so much in this universe to know, that I find myself an insignificant part of it. There is so much that I want to do for others, which is all getting ignored because all I concentrate upon is my work (and there is still so much to learn at work!).
Discipline is the key to learning, which i realize but fail to implement. Apart from making fun of the people around us and cribbing about the work culture at office(which is also needed to vent out the buiding frustration and work related stress), what is important is time allocation, dedication and the drive to learn!
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but we got our priotiies in life..we got stuff to do that we are destined for. A mechanical engg wud wonder "wow!..how the hell do these bankers work man!!"
Universe is many many light years old..and compare that to our life... Just follow this simple principle..we must do what we feel like doing in whatever allotted time we have on earth :) Hope this gibberish makes some sense!
lightyear is a measure of distance not time.