My life, my way ,my yuvaluation[/b].
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon[/b]
A quotation like this flatters my heart in a way I cannot even express. This is the kind of line supports your thought to be a young rebel, or make you think that you are the kind of person with a mind of your own and justify yours sometime foolish or sometime daring , reckless things you do in your life.
But what the heck, you damn feel good after those…………feels like you are king (and in my case queen) of the world and you are free and flying and you are unstoppable.
Maybe I am going a bit overboard, but I cannot help myself because it’s the way I can identify myself, my life, my way and my yuvaluation.
Being a only child from a typical Indian middle class family I had been taught lots of values and how to respect my culture, I admit they are heavy, and some them belongs to a category way far from what our generation thinks “cool”.
But I confess sticking to some of those values do not make you “uncool” at all, but actually helps developing integrity in you.
But some of them I really do have objection to- serious objection!!! I mean man had made society for itself, but then why some them actually becomes a hindrance in the way of discovering one’s true-self.
I behaved in my initial teenage years that I know the best, and as if all the world is conspiring only to make my life miserable and wanted desperately for myself a way out. But one fine morning I saw to my way to school that one of fellow class mate was shouting at her father because he had asked her not to talk in mobile while crossing the road. It was like as if had someone had put on a mirror in front of my face and somehow I could see a reflection similar to me in that classmate of mine. And I didn’t like it at all.
I knew that my philosophies of life I believed in that point time are not wrong- at least not all of them when I look back now- but if I realized that if I was unsuccessful in making people see my view point , I am just a regular full of oneself teenager. That all my philosophies are not more than self indulgent pompous sounding rules if I could not make people see any true value in them.
So I started people close to me see my viewpoints, all of it they did not understand but even then tries to respect my ways. And it really feels good when people close to you make an effort to understand you and your ways.
Just you have to take a step forward towards them, and make them understand it, honest effort do work at times.
Currently I am a management student. Before deciding to opt for this education I asked myself- why I am going for this MBA education. It could have been Masters in technology or pretty decent job which I got in a MNC. But somewhere down the line I felt this would be the right career path, because I feel business is life but life is a serious business. And what can be better than to learn business in a b- school. I mean everything in life is a barter system. After all there is nothing in life called ‘free lunch’ and even for every for feelings like ‘love’ we all have to pay emotional tax.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.[/b]
Franklin P Jones[/b]
Even if the above stated statement is true , still “fortune favours the brave”- are not we lucky in that way. It is some of God’s twisted sort of justice but a cool one if you think twice.
I am totally unabashed to say that I am brave, why should I not?
In our society to live life at your own terms is a difficult thing to do. People occasionally think you are a freak or treated you as a social pariah. They all talk about great things, talk about change and progress but if you start to take a step towards it they show objections towards your way.
It’s a common thing , that is if anyone out there is different and try to do things differently or radically than the hard and fast ways of society, people find you difficult to accept you.
I believe in that you have every right to be yourself as long as you are not intentionally hurting anyone in the process intentionally.
Yes, you cannot make everyone happy with your actions, but what about the obligations one should have towards oneself, because someone out there cannot think in the same wavelength as yours you cannot possibly change yourself for it.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.[/b]
Ralph Waldo Emerson [/b]
Such a beautiful bunch of words, great to believe and feels good follow. I believe in them totally.
The day we will stop fighting for what we love there will be no more passion in the world. And I pray to God that I will always have the strength for this fight. It can be for love or my life or for the aim in my life, it can be for anything but as long as I never let my passion go away from my life.
I really do not know what the future beholds for me, to be honest I do not really want to know. It will ruin the surprise element of life after all. And what kind of life it will be for any one with no surprise sin it, not an interesting one for sure. But one thing I want to have is to lead my whole life with a combination of my head and heart.
Because I believe both is required for survival.
You cannot live fully if you do not let your heart leads you sometime but at the same time for survival you will need your brain too. After all it was, is and always will be survival of fittest.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.[/b]
James Allen [/b]