A Full life?

The most burning question in my life for the past couple of years has been : What do I want out of life? It's one question that I seem to have struggled with OR enjoyed the challenge of OR been most often frustrated about OR been given a zillion different opinions and perspectives from people whose input I value OR lastly a question I have tried to make peace with.

Never though, have I gotten an entirely satisfactory and more importantly consistent answer. Though often recently I feel that one thing consistent about the answers is that they all seem to be grounded in my craving for seeking diversity -- of people, place and profession! The more I peel back the onion on this thought, the more I feel comfortable living with the process of contiually refining my answer to this question. I have what i feel is a trillion ft view of my answer to the question:

-What do I want out of life?

: I want to live a 'full' life!

One in which I have lived in places, met and mingled with variety of people with diverse backgrounds and have had a multiple professional tangents to my working life. I would want to have had a few careers before I am done - an engineer, entrepreneur, an artist, media person, a social activist, a philanthropist ... I would want to have had a few educational degrees in diverse fields and places - a masters, a mba, a phd ... I would want to have had lived in all the 5 continents for a reasonable amount of time before i m in the sunset of my life ... I would want to have loved and been loved by people whose lifes I would not have imagined I could touch ... finaicially I would want to have lived poor, getting there, obscenely loaded ...

.. n I would want to have done each of the above for a reasonable time enough to have lived it! That is a very doable list the way I look at it. Some could be done concurrently, others in certain planned 4-5 year slots in life. No - I am not saying life by a schedule. Infact I am suggesting the exact opposite. I am saying nothing I do can not be part of the plan. It would all fit in and make sense. Coz with the ultimate goal of living a 'full' life, everything flies as long as one enjoys it fully!!

I am just too full of myself ... aint I ?

The Oxford Diaries

Hey! Long time...i know!! Lets hope this time around I have a more consistent run of things with writing. I have created a seperate log under my profile, called 'My Oxford Diaries' (corny huh?!!? thats what I thought too :-)). There is a link to it under my links section. I shall try to log my experiences as I am literally weeks away from embarking on this whole new journey, saying good bye to life as I knew it for the past 7 years in the US. Reason I kept it a seperate blog is that I plan to put up a lot of details, pics and week by week account of my semesters at Ox and I figured its best logged seperately. So long...!