We rarely question ‘what do we live for?’ And most of us can’t find convincing answer. Straight away I will rule out the possibility of the answer ‘my essence of the life is my family’. Atleast for we guyz in unmarried 20s (as Shreya quotes in the movie Lets Enjoy), parents love is something like ‘we can’t live with it and we can’t live without it’ :P
The other 5 core passions which make us to lead life could be
1. Achievement in career
2. Money and Status
3. Live for you, Live for passion
4. Love and Friendship
5. Explore and Experience
Believe me folks, till now if you never thought what you are living for and if you just want to compete with others in terms of your qualification and routine job, better commit suicide. If you don’t compete, another jack ass is there to compete and over take. :P
1. I don’t know why world is so much behind the achievement and the career. I never get excited if something good happens in my professional career. One thing is true, every damn person struggles for betterment of career and you may go unnoticed after your arduous efforts as everybody dies to achieve.
2. Money and Status is something where I am stuck with. I don’t mind status but money matters a lot. I feel weird about Indians when it comes to money. As per my experience with many other nationalities, for most of them money is not meant for saving. Instead they see money as mode of comfort. They earn money to lead quality life. But we Indians earn money to save; we compromise quality of life for the sake of saving. I want to earn money just for 2 reasons:
- To spend money I need to earn money. I want to go wherever I dream, buy whatever I wish and do whatever I want.
- For the sake of fellow Indians – Whether we agree or not, we blindly judge any person based on money he/ she has. We have this attitude in our veins. This is the most depressing factor with Indians. Most of you say ‘no, no, no, I am not like this’…… But it is ‘yes, yes, yes, we are like this’……
3. Living for you is something awesome. If you have some passion, say art or music and if you can lead your life comfortably with that passion, that is something perfect. I envy people who earn money with passion as their investment. For eg: Musicians, artists etc. The biggest odd in my life is ‘I am engineer’. I can never stay happy till I work in some office sitting 8-9 hours per day and doing some crazy technical stuff :(
4. Love and Friendship – Keeping primary essence as ‘relationship’ and finding happiness in expressing - experiencing the closeness is awesome. How many of us really-really have best friend whom we trust without any second thought? How many of us can confidently say 'she is my perfect love and I trust her'? I bet 99% of us don’t have ‘friends/ love for life’. We show-off our life styles, we lie to maintain exaggerated status; we try to hide feelings for the sake of ego.
5. The last one is ‘exploring and experiencing’. May be we don’t have born passions or talents. But there are many worldly things which attract us, like – roaming countries, understanding various cultures, having very good hobbies. But most of us restrict ourselves thinking we may loose track in life and we may get screwed up in terms of time and money.
Whatever it is, life is not that serious. I feel my life is precious and in the same way, you feel your life is precious. But at the end of the day, none of us are special. Nobody really achieves anything great. We don’t know what life is after death, we don’t know what life was before birth. We don’t know what is good or what is bad.
Some ancestors set good – bad, right – wrong, meaningful - meaningless and we blindly follow the same. People say ‘praying god is good, scolding god is bad… saving money is good, wasting time is bad'… But as per me ‘being too serious in life is bad, turning off our passions for the sake of money is bad, hurting others with our attitude is bad’. Except these, everything else is good in this random-unidentified world’
