"You are born to live, not live because you are born"
This blog might seem very crazy or
stupid for some, but I personally feel that I had to anyway convey this message
to everyone. This one is mostly for teenagers, people in their early 20’s and
those who have still not met their goals.
Have you ever thought of what you would be 10-15 years from now? Do you
have a goal? Do you have an aim? Do you have a dream? Or are you still confused
about your future? Have you thought about your career? If not ever wondered
would you be happy or successful? Lot of questions would burst up once you
start thinking these things. I have seen advertisement’s who offer career
guidance. If you go there, they’ll pour on you loads of courses to do and
trying to convince you that there are big salary packages in future if you pursue
those courses. But does anyone of them tell you that you can become an actor, a
musician, a DJ, a soldier, a fire fighter, a wrestler, a sportsman, a social
worker, a producer, a cartoonist, an animator, a poet, a writer and many more
to mention. No, they won’t tell you these things, because these things are out
of the box. Go around to the people you know and ask ten of them what their
profession is. You might get answers like doctor, engineer, teacher,
accountant, manager, customer service agent but hardly would you get which
mentioned above. There are possibilities of social worker as now days it has
become a trend as corporate companies “pay” these people to do social work.
So why won’t you get the above mentioned professions? Because most of us
follow a made up pattern of our life. After you are done with your studies,
find a job ASAP, then try to get a job with a better salary, few years later
you have to get married, go on a vacation once or twice a year, make a family
and then the same goes on with your kid. If you want to become an actor, a
musician, a poet, a producer, it would take years for you to reach your goal
and if you are lucky you might get that in your 20’s. But your parents and your
society won’t let you take that risk. According to “people” you have to be
settled by the age of 30. Being a struggling actor………..oh my god!!!! “You are
25 now and still you have no relieving job, what would we tell others?” This
line demolishes the dream of an actor forcing him to do a job which he is not
at all interested in but just to earn some money. If one wants to join the army
or rescue missions, one has to and mandatorily has to sacrifice his later
teenage and early 20’s life which is a hard thing to do and not all the guardians
ever think about this as a career. There is pattern which most of the people
follow as per the age of a person, by 21-23 your studies should be completed,
by 25-26 you should be working at some MNC and well settled, by 28-30 your
should get married and by 33-35 let’s give birth to a child. And let me tell
you many are scared if things do not happen as per the age mentioned. Many of
you want to do things which you have always dreamt of but you are working at
some boring place just by the fear of your parents and society. If you want to
be a musician, dancer, actor, poet then get out of that work space and start
working on your talent. Let people know what you are. You won’t be successful
in a day, a month or a year, but someday you would be proud of yourself and
happy to choose this path. Rome was not built in a day; similarly it would take
time and efforts for your success too. Be hungry, spend sleepless nights, beg
and borrow if needed, become shameless and let go off that thought from your
mind what people would think because at the end YOU are going to gain whatever
comes. People just speak and they forget. The road to success is thought to be as start-journey-success, but its not how its thought. The road to success is start-journey-failure-journey-failure-journey-failure-success. You will fail a couple of times maybe more but that's you will learn and later succeed. The road to success is not a clean one, it has, failures, break downs, disappointments, and many such things. The movie ‘3 idiots’ clearly
manifests that if you want to become something that you want, go ahead and follow
your dream. You need to do a job which you enjoy and you are enjoying your job
that time when you are not in a hurry to go neither home nor are you waiting
for holidays. Yes, people are in hurry to go home and are greedy for week off’s
because they “do not” enjoy their work. I had heard somewhere, “Make your passion your profession then you
would love your work.”
You wake up every morning and follow the same steps which you had
yesterday. You have bounded yourself into things like, religion, race, standard,
groups, languages and many such things. These things keep you away from some
wonderful things which you have not explored. For example religion as in
Christianity, many people think that metal music is anti-christ, well it’s not.
It’s just a genre of music. Some parents don’t let their kid’s dance, especially
girls thinking that it’s not in their standards. Yes now this does sound stupid
but it’s true as I have witnessed these incidents. We all want to be successful
but we do not try to even step out of the boundary. Cross it, think different,
go way beyond your limits and then see how your dreams would be wandering
around you. All you need to do is, stop following that age pattern, stop
thinking what people would think about you, stop thinking that what if you
fail, start taking risks, oppose your parents if you trust in yourself and one
day they would be proud of you.
