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Is wanting to live in this beautiful Norwegian home asking for too much?
To be happy or to be successful?
There are those who think happiness is overrated.
They are the ones who don't understand life at all.
If that makes me selfish or an objectivist, so be it.
My life. My terms. I want happiness. Lucky for people, I find happiness in the smallest things.
These aren't the questions I meant to ask here.
They were (a little) more important than these ones.
I've been feeling apprehensive about my future of late.
What do I really want to make of my life?
Will I able to make a difference? Bring about a change in attitude, circumstance or ideology?
There is so much I want to do.
I want to drive change, influence and engender passion. I don't want to be just one of the many with a high-powered executives with a prestigious job and hefty salary. I really don't. I would much rather earn a smaller income and do something more substantial in my life.Yes, I know how many reading this will think of the immature idealism underlining this statement. You will probably read it with the stinted hollow of the dubious.
To be honest, as I write this, I am thinking the same things.
The impracticality and impossibility of it all.
I hear people talking about leaving the country and never looking back. I hear all the rationale for getting a good job somewhere and being 'settled'. And the funny thing is, that also makes sense. A lot of sense. That might just be what I end up doing with my life.
It's just that the idea of being 'settled', implies a certain amount of complacence and satisfaction with what I see around me.
There are so many things I'm thinking of right now and unable to frame coherently into a sentence.
For lack of a better way to put it, I would always like to be somewhat dissatisfied with what I see and what I do. Or else, what is the point of it all?
I have completely forgotten the point of this post. Tell me if you find one.
9 comments:
When I was 17, I wish I had been less concerned with saving the world than to build my personal life.
Today, with 23, I think that find the person I love and be able to build a simple life, but happy, with her, is more heroic than saving the world and not have it, the happiness about stay with who I truly love.
Is a little romantic I know but, to me, it has more meaning than save the world.
Would be this what you want to know?
u can either worry bout whether one will find happyness in more money...or satisfactory less paying job...
or stop askin questions bout it and decide thngs as they come...
u thnk a lot for ur age... salut
@David,
I get what you're saying. Finding happiness in the small things, in loving, sharing and caring in one's pristine little world, is one of the most beautiful things to find. :)
I'm just confused with where I should be focusing my energies right now.
@Sankoobaba,
I guess I will just have to see how things go, won't I?
There is no right or wrong answer to this. I'll just have to continue asking these questions, and searching for the answers, most right to me.
"I don't want to be just one of the many with a high-powered executives with a prestigious job and hefty salary" - agreed.
Its very good to strive to be significant or to make significant change in the world.
Only solution I think I found so far is to somehow connect what you love doing with making money and then hopefully work becomes fun. But again the problem is I love a variety of things and keep cycling between them. I'm still searching for answers too :) Trust me, to keep searching for answers itself makes us significant. Or at least that's how I convince myself :P
Haha, is there any such thing as a professional reader or coffee drinker? :P
You Should Consider Journalism..You Have All That It Takes..
@Anonymous, journalism as a career path is something I contemplated on very deeply, but never believed I was good enough. Honestly, I still don't.
Thanks, anyway. :)
I just love ur posts ...cant believe ur jsut 17.will read all f them in some time
You're just being kind, Anuja. I thank you, though. :)
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