Over the past few days, this is something that has come up in most of my conversations of the third kind…hence the blog post
You see, there comes a time in every person’s life when he or she must make some key calls. You can clearly see the fork in the road ahead, and you have to decide which way to go. You have tried to avoid it / ignore it / postpone it / kid yourself but its staring at you in your face, just like Raju’s ‘CON’science(but not as sinister!). What’s more, they are one ways, and there is no reverse gear in your car. All you got is that rear view mirror to reflect as the days & months & years go by..Sometimes its not as simplistic as that…The fork may be an intersection of 3 or more roads…or it may be a deadend…or the highway in the distance might just be a mirage of the desert. The bottomline is that its not easy
So anyway, what do you do? You may ask! You take every Tom, Dick & Harry in your contact book who has taken one of those roads – and ask them…boss, hello, how r u…and btw, how has life been since you took that left or right? Or you may tell yourself that you are NOT Tom, Dick & Harry and hence NA (Not Applicable)..chart your own damn road!
Someone put it across in a very matter of fact manner…that most decisions in life are like buying a car…you are considering colour/design aesthetics ( a comparative could be the glamour associated with the profession or external beauty), engine / fuel efficiency (akin to job content or substance in a person), TCO (thats Total Cost of Ownership – which is again like long term repurcussions)….so when you are taking a decision, you decide wats imp to you….but remember that fundamentally, a decision, like a car, is a depreciating asset…when you r taking it, it seems like something major…but as time goes by, it gets depreciated and soon its lying on your books with no intrinsic value…you will look back and say, hell why was i thinking about it so damn hard…it was such an obvious thing to be done! The car might be have become a khatara…but you sat in it all this while and saw a whole new world! So its not the decision that is important, as much as what you do after you take that decision!
The thing is that God doesnt need hindsight…people dont have foresight…and we are after 20/20..be it vision or cricket! So just chill chill…just chill
Lipak
I read a book by Jack Welch where he quotes that planning has nothing to do with life. Read his quote – “You live life forwards while understand it backwards.” Since, one is more concerned about future than past, so better live it rather than understand it.
And for the car, BUYYYYYYYY MATIZ.
Anybody else reading this comment, tell him to execute the decision.
btw..nice quote “You live life forwards while understand it backwards”…will use it someday somewhere!