Written on Friday, November 11, 2011
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I feel completely derailed. I need a role model, someone whom I can look up to, and follow him up to become something in my life. As of now, I have absolutely no idea what I want to become in my life. All I want is to have a steady job, which could pay my bills and hope to retire some day, with enough savings so as to enjoy a calm post-retirement life. This is all I can think off. But I'm not too sure, if the path I'm currently gressing will enable me get where I want to reach. And this is bare minimum stuff. I mean, I'm not asking for the sky. If you can't expect this much after slogging for 2 decades in educational instts & then 4 decades in corporate world, then you really don't have any hope...do you?
There is another very important thing in life which gives you immense satisfaction, apart from being financially secure. And that is to be able to do what you love. Whether it is to take a day off and spend the time with your loved ones, or developing a new hobby, or travelling to those locations you always kept dreaming about, or meeting any of your goals, that motivated you to work so hard in this life. If you aren't doing that, you'd be grumbled with your life in your deathbed. It might sound dramatic, but won't you agree? Won't you feel that you have let go
the opportunity to live because of reasons which mostly existed in mind only, and due to the fear of losing money meant to keep for the proverbial 'Rainy Day'!!!
Its a tragedy, that we work all our lives, and are still not able to live even an year the way we want to. Its true that happiness is a state of mind, but isn't it true also, that happiness lies in freedom as well. Just imagine, if I tell you that you have the freedom to choose whether or not you want to turn up for work tomorrow, won't that make you happy? What if you get to chose everyday? What if, I assure you that irrespective of whatever you choose, your finances will not be disturbed!!! Won't that really empower you? Won't this one single thought, that irrespective of what you do, the money stream will not be disturbed, makes you feel that now you can do things which really make you happy, like the ones we discussed above?
Yes...it should...and...it will. Anyone, who denies it, is lying to himself. Lets not lie to ourselves, and admit that all of us want to have a life, in which we are in the driver's seat. We have the control over what we want to do, with whom we want to do & when we want to do. Sounds almost like a dream...and a little too eerie as well?? Don't worry, it is...atleast to those who only day-dream about such a life. But those who actually live such a life, the 1% of all the human beings in the history of mankind, can vouch, that this is the way to go about life. To be
in control, is the ultimate gift.
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I feel completely derailed. I need a role model, someone whom I can look up to, and follow him up to become something in my life. As of now, I have absolutely no idea what I want to become in my life. All I want is to have a steady job, which could pay my bills and hope to retire some day, with enough savings so as to enjoy a calm post-retirement life. This is all I can think off. But I'm not too sure, if the path I'm currently gressing will enable me get where I want to reach. And this is bare minimum stuff. I mean, I'm not asking for the sky. If you can't expect this much after slogging for 2 decades in educational instts & then 4 decades in corporate world, then you really don't have any hope...do you?
There is another very important thing in life which gives you immense satisfaction, apart from being financially secure. And that is to be able to do what you love. Whether it is to take a day off and spend the time with your loved ones, or developing a new hobby, or travelling to those locations you always kept dreaming about, or meeting any of your goals, that motivated you to work so hard in this life. If you aren't doing that, you'd be grumbled with your life in your deathbed. It might sound dramatic, but won't you agree? Won't you feel that you have let go
the opportunity to live because of reasons which mostly existed in mind only, and due to the fear of losing money meant to keep for the proverbial 'Rainy Day'!!!
Its a tragedy, that we work all our lives, and are still not able to live even an year the way we want to. Its true that happiness is a state of mind, but isn't it true also, that happiness lies in freedom as well. Just imagine, if I tell you that you have the freedom to choose whether or not you want to turn up for work tomorrow, won't that make you happy? What if you get to chose everyday? What if, I assure you that irrespective of whatever you choose, your finances will not be disturbed!!! Won't that really empower you? Won't this one single thought, that irrespective of what you do, the money stream will not be disturbed, makes you feel that now you can do things which really make you happy, like the ones we discussed above?
Yes...it should...and...it will. Anyone, who denies it, is lying to himself. Lets not lie to ourselves, and admit that all of us want to have a life, in which we are in the driver's seat. We have the control over what we want to do, with whom we want to do & when we want to do. Sounds almost like a dream...and a little too eerie as well?? Don't worry, it is...atleast to those who only day-dream about such a life. But those who actually live such a life, the 1% of all the human beings in the history of mankind, can vouch, that this is the way to go about life. To be
in control, is the ultimate gift.
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