All my life i have had the "Hum Kisse Se Kum Nahin" attitude. Thats mainly because all my life i have lived with my parents and parents always think that their children are the best. But now that i'm living on my own and getting aquainted with so many people from varied backgrounds and industries, i realise that the "frog in the well" perspective that i have had for so many years is bullshit.. pardon my french:))
You see all of these 20 something people around you with their super cool jobs .. sports editor, entertainment, marketing guru's, theatre artists, business prodigies.. the list goes on. These guys have adrenalin pumping through them at warp speed and their zest for life makes people around them want to get up and fight.. fight for their share of glory and success.
I know a person who joined her organization at the age of 20 for a starting salary of Rs.3000/- pm.. So bad were her state of affairs during the beginning years that she had to ask her dad to send money every month to make ends meet..Now that i am working,asking my dad for money is a ridiculous concept.. And if i were in her place, i would not have taken up the job in the first place. But this amazing lady not only took it up but stuck to it for 4 years..
Talent as we all know cannot go unnoticed for very long. Soon she climbed up the ladder so fast that now she is on the verge of being the business head for operations in Dubai. Now this is a post that is normally given to people who have atleast put in 10 years of committed work with the organization. Now thats "Corporate Fastrack".
"I will only do what i love doing" --That was probably what ran through her head when she took up the job. And when you love what you do, its not very difficult to out perform everyone else or atleast yourself in each new project. The Corporate ladder starts looking like the school yard ladder.. in short.. cake walk. But the key aspect here is to love what you do.
Now the whole objective of narrating this was to retrospect. Given a chance to swap places with the person mentioned above..
Would i have made the same decisions as her?
Would i have had the resilience and patience that she had?
Have i made a compromise with my profession just because it was the first thing that came my way easily?
Very few people have the guts to say no to "fat paycheck jobs" over something that they are "passionate" about doing.
In my view, the reason why most people agreed for their current jobs is because they do not know what they want out of life. Atleast, thats why i'm in my industry.
What sets the sprinters apart from the joggers is that the sprinters have their goal in sight while the joggers follow routine with no particular aim in sight.
What sets apart the "winners" from the "doing pretty well for themselves" is that the winners sprint to get what they love and the "doing pretty well for themselves" jog around routine with no particular long term objective.
So the Big Question now is:
What do the majority of the "20 something" population( people like me) really want from life?
And when will that moment of clarity occur?
