It has been a very long break since my last post and I regret that but there were certain issues which had kept me preoccupied and concerned for the past few months. Even as I write this post, they haunt me!
So be it, I have decided to give myself a break from pondering over such issues viz. my career path, how to get the maximum out of my present job, where do I see myself in the next 5 years, improve upon my existing commitments and relationships (particularly one in that!) and so on.
I came across a very interesting and insightful mantra recently which reads:
“All the work one has to do expands to fill up the entire time available for its completion.” True, isn’t it? Set yourself a deadline and let’s see you complete the work before it. And the bigger problem is, we don’t usually set ourselves deadlines, rather it is that last notch in the timeline after which any failure in the completion of the task leaves us dead!
So, I have devised an easy way out of it. Let not such issues (like the ones mentioned above) which involve more of predictive, imaginative and fatigue causing thought processes take up my entire day because more often than not, they end up in frustrating inanities. Let these issues suck up to me only for that amount of time that I decide for them to! Rest of the day I live life!
It is often said that life is a journey and true happiness can only be attained when one enjoys the journey and not always looks out for the destination, coz there isn’t one! Sounds like stale philosophy stuff, right? But it is stale only because of repeated reading and not overuse!
I remember the time when I was back in college cramming courses (or should I say worried) to find myself a good job …. Or maybe a little further back to the time when I was toiling in my 11th and 12th to make it to a good college for my graduation … A little earlier, perhaps, when there was this tension of standing first in my school in the X Board exams …. Or lets jump right back to where I am now, thinking about making the most of my time at this job and then finding admission in a reputed management college for even better working avenues..
Do you see the problem there? It has always been about planning and more planning, to succeed in the next endeavor I am about to take up (more so by virtue of being a Libran, perhaps), waiting and more waiting for something even better.
Although, it is not wrong to be conscious of what you want from life, and work diligently for it, but the exertion of the endeavor should not cost us the present. Too much of anything is bad. As of now, in my constant effort to excel at my present job in the least possible amount of time and then find a seat in one of those few reputed MBA colleges in India or abroad, I sometimes feel that I am compromising on enjoying the moment at hand. After all, it was the feeling of a lifetime to see my name on the final list of the few selected candidates for this job when the company had come on-campus. Recapitulating those moments sends a wave of thrill down my spine even today.
The fact is, there is always something better available. Aim for it. Strive for it. Achieve it. Search for something better again. Reiterate the loop over and over again. But learn to include in the iteration of the loop the very important code of ‘Enjoying and cherishing what you have already achieved.’
Without the last part, it is just a boring walk, include it and life becomes a cherishable journey. Don’t always be worried about your next move and forgot to live the moment at hand. Be a little mad always!
Fiqrana!
Piyush.
