Sometimes, when you have actually reached a point in life which you always dreamt of reaching, you realize, probably you dreamt for a little too less. Probably you could have gone further by now. There are others who could realize that, this is not what they had imagined that dream to turn out to be. You would feel like rewinding your life by 10 years, and doing things in a slightly different way. Like choosing Arts over Science, studying Literature over Engineering, spending 1 million & 2 years to go round the world in place of studying Business Management, unleashing your hidden creativity instead of managing the sales of an FMCG company, spending weekends sitting silently with a dear friend by the seaside in place of majestic shopping malls & movies, having just 15k to ‘happily’ survive a month instead of not knowing where to spend a lakh a month and yet ending up with no bank balance by 25th of every month! Looking back, you might think, where exactly all this is leading to. What is the purpose for which you are working 14 hours a day, for what pursuit? Is it just to live a comfortable life, just to have a swanky home by the end of forty, just to be a part of the vicious circle of earning to spend and spending to earn more? Sometimes you feel you were born to do much greater things than that. You feel you must venture into a more meaningful & fulfilling way of leading your life – starting your own business, doing what you have always wanted to do – opening a restaurant, writing a book, being a magazine editor, or acting in theatre, or doing what you feel like doing, on that particular day!
Most people in the world live to just survive the pressures created upon them by the world & by themselves – just to prove to nobody that ‘Yes! I too belong to this place where you feel you belong. I have a life too.’ Very few people live a liberated life, free from worldly pressures. Very few people live with no benchmarks to reach & surpass. Very few people go to bed every night being satisfied about how the day progressed, having a blank ‘to do’ list for the next day. Very few people have absolutely no regrets with their lives. And very few discover their passions early in life, and just a handful of them are able to create opportunities to pursue that passion. It is that time of your life, when you are, simply put, confused! Some people call it ‘The Quarter Life Crisis’. It’s the realization at the end of 40% of your life, that – Life is short. Time is running away. Dream. Do whatever you want to do, fast. Make it a worthwhile journey, with no destination.
