Yesterday I was reading a book "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari". Its really a nice book which makes you think. While going through it I found a really intriguing comment made by the author. It read,
"The Key to eternal happiness is Find out what you truly love to do and then devote all your energy towards it "
After reading this, I was forced to question myself, "Whats that one thing which I'll love to do?" Though there are many things I really love to do and can continue doing for hours at a stretch without even bothering for my meals (I mentioned that cauz meals are one of the most important events of my day ), but I cant really make a living out of that. Say for example, I love cooking, but that doesnt mean i quit my job and become a chef. I love travelling, photography, surfing the net, but these things cant earn me a living.
The job which I'm doing right now is more a thing by chance than by choice. Got selected through campus, got into a S/W company & the company decided that I have to work for a Bank. Is this what i really love to do? Certainly not. If that would have been the case, I wouldnt be feeling sleepy daily after lunch, I wouldnt be counting days left for the weekend, I wouldnt be frowning watching the calendar shwing yet another Monday. Then Whats that I really want?
Do you have an answer for this? Do you know something you love so much that you can devote all your time towards it? And most importantly, are you courageous enough to quit what you are doing right now and switch over to that thing? I get really confused when i ask these questions to myself. What about you?
Saturday, November 11, 2006
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hey pratosh.. i was thinking just this today..
we r earning....but r we doing wat we love to do????? No.
But i do know wat i wud love to do..sometime in future wen this feeling gets irrsistably strong, i wud leave everything behind and follow it with all my heart...
S.A.X
"Whats that one thing which I'll love to do?"
In life we do many things, we enjoy they at different stages of life. Things which we enjoy and for which we get appreciation are often those known as are talent at that moment in life. Things which we are good at, for whom don't get appreciation are often lost. Life is usually driven by this praise system. This is something animal like. Animals are taught in a way when they do things which they are "supposed" to do we reward them(praise) them but when they are wrong we punish(condemn/criticize) them. We should not fall in trap of this prevalent social system. One should seek ecstacy not praise. If he is getting praise as a byproduct of ecstacy, accept it. On the contrary if he recieves critisicm reject it.
We develop interested in an activity. We become as good in a activity as we enjoy it. When you stop growing, its time to move on. You are no longer interested. But the problem here is again the social image. How to break it? How a IIT Professor can leave his job and become a photographer for instance? It will only make him look foolish. So we are so much stuck in the roles, it seems like it needs an emmense courage to change it. It makes no sense to people that why would a man will move to a position of lower income or insecure job.
But courage is to walk in the dark where your heart wants you to go.
Talents appears and disappears. But when they really disappear we tend to strech them. The enjoyment disappears. The effort starts. We terribly don't meet our expectation from ourselves.
This question can only be answer by a dying man because only he can tell what is the one thing he loved doing most. The author said this easily after he enjoyed his success as a lawer. He definetely lost interest in his job and moved on. Moving is very painful but must. Later when he found someother thing to enjoy he thought "what the hell I was doing over the years". But one thing he missed is he can only be here after spending this much time at job. It wont be possible for him to be here at this stage if he was not doing what he did.
Enjoy!
Navneet
Hmmm.. everything comes down to a single word - 'Choice'.
What we do now mostly is not what we love to do! because, if we leave a job and start doing what we love for the entire of our lives, then where will the money for that enjoyment come from?? :)
I think it is necessary to enjoy life, but just that there's nothing like a free lunch! work hard and party Hard! :) i know thats what u do Prato!
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