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 ?
2 comments:
Jitin,
Great blog bud! I think you connect the dots very well. Atleast from my perspective.... :-)
Have a great life at Oxford and beyond.
Be in touch.
Jitsi...though on the face of it I have always contradicted with your views, you know that at the very core we were talking about the same thing. As for this one, I don't want that contradiction even on the face of it :-). Can't agree more!!!
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