Well, if you are an Engineer, Doctor or an MBA, either of these subjects would have been the most significant part of more than 20 years of your life J
The question to ask is...do we really leave back these subjects while leading our lives?
The calculations, the deadlines, the budgets, the actuals, the logic, the formulas... all are a very valid and deserving part of our professional life...but we get so used to these jargons that we start applying them to our daily lives.
How difficult is it to lead a peaceful and happy life?
Today, when I close my eyes and really think hard and be honest to myself...I am afraid my answer is – It’s as easy as you would want it to be!
Really...I mean, sometimes I feel that human mind is so in love with complexities that it tries to measure everything...be it actions, reactions, feelings, judgements...and in that, we forget to feel, act, react and live in a most authentic and original way !
For most part of my life (would say at least for 25 yrs), I have lived the same mechanical, calculated life...where I would create an excel sheet for every damn thing including ‘Invitations for house functions’...but now, for about couple of years I think I have managed to cool down and stop measuring things with whatever little maths I knowJ
To me, the essence of living life is to feel any emotion to its most original core, it’s to give a hug to someone I love, being kissed by my loved one...be able to pass a smile to a stranger who seems lost in the crowd...to hold hands with my best friend and walk for hours...to talk on phone with my sisters and gossip about new guys in our life...spend time with my Mom to know how the world was in her times and how it has changed...sleep in my Grandpa’s lap listening to stories of his younger times...have dinner with my partner discussing how beautiful and eventful the day was...sit alone and have a cup of coffee while looking at the sun set !
Agreed...
Everything that I have mentioned above may not be possible in today’s rat race...but spare a minute and give a thought – Is it really that hard?
The question to ask is...do we really leave back these subjects while leading our lives?
The calculations, the deadlines, the budgets, the actuals, the logic, the formulas... all are a very valid and deserving part of our professional life...but we get so used to these jargons that we start applying them to our daily lives.
How difficult is it to lead a peaceful and happy life?
Today, when I close my eyes and really think hard and be honest to myself...I am afraid my answer is – It’s as easy as you would want it to be!
Really...I mean, sometimes I feel that human mind is so in love with complexities that it tries to measure everything...be it actions, reactions, feelings, judgements...and in that, we forget to feel, act, react and live in a most authentic and original way !
For most part of my life (would say at least for 25 yrs), I have lived the same mechanical, calculated life...where I would create an excel sheet for every damn thing including ‘Invitations for house functions’...but now, for about couple of years I think I have managed to cool down and stop measuring things with whatever little maths I knowJ
To me, the essence of living life is to feel any emotion to its most original core, it’s to give a hug to someone I love, being kissed by my loved one...be able to pass a smile to a stranger who seems lost in the crowd...to hold hands with my best friend and walk for hours...to talk on phone with my sisters and gossip about new guys in our life...spend time with my Mom to know how the world was in her times and how it has changed...sleep in my Grandpa’s lap listening to stories of his younger times...have dinner with my partner discussing how beautiful and eventful the day was...sit alone and have a cup of coffee while looking at the sun set !
Agreed...
Everything that I have mentioned above may not be possible in today’s rat race...but spare a minute and give a thought – Is it really that hard?
‘Be the change you want to see in the world’
Lovely, Tejal! It so nice to see how you are evolving :)
ReplyDeleteWell, one exhibits the skills that you've mentioned above not only to speed ahead in the rat race but also to project/impose one's personality.
ReplyDeleteEven in an ideal world without the neck break competition, I'd still like people to distinguish themselves using various domains of knowledge. Someone who is very strong in Math, imposes that on to his personality because that is how he/she has matured into a person. That is how he/she has developed that outlook for life. The same goes with a doctor who develops his/her own perceptions of things around based on her learnings. ( a very corporate-esque jargon :) )
While agree that we sometimes miss the essential emotions in life as you put it out in your last para I don't think one's outlook to life and one's ability to indulge oneself in those emotions are mutually exclusive.
Well, Yes & No. Firstly thanks for bringing in a fresh perspective to this. Agreed with what you said about such skills being used to project one's personality.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the question to be asked is - how authentic is the need to project our personality with certain skills...doesn't the need to be known overtakes the whole essence of living life? That's what I meant by rat race...its not that people are not capable to experience emotions but there is definitely something which preoccupies their mind and deprives them from experiencing some of the essential emotions.