Hi all,
Imagine what Da Vinci, Zidane, James Hetfield, Godel or whomever great you can imagine would have wanted to become. By becoming something does not mean only our profession but our ambition. I tend to stutter here because I could not make out the difference between career and ambition. This might be the case for many as we are born in India - I suppose.
People, try flying by your past and recollect what you fantasized to be and what you are now. Now that we are mature and we tend to acclimatize our dream or maybe try forget our dream as we can safely say "I made a smart and realistic decision".
What might stop one from becoming a great poet or a painter or a musician. Let me list out some.
1. Fear of inquisition that we might recieve from society.
2. Fear of survival.
And many other list of fears that haunt us. Or I might say that drive us to run in an opposite direction.
Take some time off for introspection. Lets do some reverse engineering. I'll take my own case. I'm an CSE Engineer. What drove me to become one? Fantasy surrounding computers, was interested in maths, heard from someone that CSE has lots of maths and logic- which gave my conscience all clear to choose CSE.
This point is where i strongly feel something is missing. Did I do the research about computer engineering, if it is good or not? No. Is that because I was not exposed to computers much. Is our educational foundation not balanced? Or that I just did not care what I want to be?
I think even now, in this age many just dont know what they want to do in future.. Or what they want to be in future.. People just wait for the jigsaw puzzle to get over all by itself.... they dont go in search of the pieces that help them to solve the puzzle. Once you have the location of the pieces then you can think about the plan of action on how you can solve it.
Do you have the pieces that solve the puzzle or you in search of the pieces or just that you dont know you are in the middle of a puzzle?
I want this to be an open dicussion. Please comment.
Thanks,
Gnanesh.(Poonai)
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Very nice article .I guess we would have spent half our time in 18/11 discussing about why are we what we are than what we ought to be.
In life one picks and chooses what one wants to do.In many cases we did not have enough time or exposure at our disposal to take such a big leap .But just fear of failure or being ostracized kept us from choosing .But i am sure all of us are just doing something for mere survival.
But i believe that a brave decision have to be taken before it is too late.
Aswin kumar
Brilliant Article. I was thinking of posting on similar lines. It is kid of mixed bag for not chasing our dreams. I ll elaborate in my post.
What you have said will be resonated by lots of guys and girls in India. It ahs to be agreed that we don't have an idea about what we are going to do in our under graduation, almost everybody goes by a popular opinion in his surroundings. Only after we complete our college, we realize our ambition. (If you don't realize nothing can be done).
Here is where the thing called peer pressure comes. Instead of chasing our ambition, we go for a job citing the reason that some money is needed for doing our masters. Once we get into the job, we forget our ambition and get into a mechanical life which allows no time for self introspection. Worse still is whenever we get time, instead of pondering over what to do, we feel bad about this job and get into feelings.
So, what to do if you need to chase your ambition?
Leave the job. If you leave the job, automatically you will be forced to do something, which I believe will be certainly better than your job, provided you have a good ambition. You know it requires a bit of courage and determination to do this, which most of us (including me lack). We are too much worried about our security in life, we need to buy a laptop, a car, a good house, etc. Hence very few leave their jobs.
I will not say that everybody leaving their jobs can make their ambition and career one and the same. At the same time it cannot be ruled out that you can achieve your ambition.
A small suggestion poonai, both me and gauthi feel that you need to take sometime off and introspect yourselves.
80 vayasula vara kozhapamullam namma makkalukku mattum en ippaye varudu (Remember gounder in ponnu veetukaran with sathyaraj and manivannan i guess).
There is certainly a conflict of passions and being safe. Ultimately what you do must make you happy and also get you money. Sometimes, people have to relinquish money to be happy and most in our generation cant do that. You cant follow your passion and earn billions. the exceptions have been people like Senna, Sachin, steve jobs and the list goes on.
And the most importamt thing is that you ve got to figure out what is going make you and ultimately keep you happpy. Not many ask this to themselves and some might get an answer in the spiritual paradigm ( that includes someone who feels happy by playing music, writing books etc, some in the socialogical paradigm ( who wants to help people in a big way and tries to find some sanity to his life) and some in the materialistic one ( who prefer just being in this world, and money matters to them most). You have to decide whats best for you.
And out of those three, i guess all of us have taken the third option and as we are not artists like the Davinci's, beethoven's, van gogh's, we find ourselves in absolute mess. I am sure we will be living a life worth living.
Poonai velaila kadiya potanungana leavepodu mamu.. oru 2 masam.. adhan mayilum sonnaru
Brilliant article da.. I just saw this Blog now, So, i apologise for the delay... I tried to post in mine on similar lines, but couldn't get it thro this fine..
Ya, We are goin around like this because most of us haven't even identified what we want to do in the first place..
Once that is through, we are held back by all those fears the others talked about... add 2 that peer pressure & the odd reactions we get from our families & frnds.. (4get the societal acceptance thing. Neither u nor I will give a damn abt that and we know that.)
All those immensely famous and successful people had to show the finger to the generality rule , and had to face a thousand issues (which we are not sure if we can handle..) to follow their dream.. From JKR who wrote a few stories just to get her mind out of the fact that she's actually hungry.. to Gates or Jobs or anyone who dropped out.. It's the day of realisation that differentiates the good and the great. There are so many football players, and there's Messi, there's Kaka.. Life had been difficult for almost everyone who made it big.
The whole thing is just compromise theory.. One shuts up his ambitions/passions in exchange for money. And the day when he refuses to compromise and fall out of the line.. The day when standards don't apply to him anymore.. That day will be his Independence day.. (basic format of dialogue copied from the movie.. dont mind mac.. :))
Aswin
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