Monday, January 31, 2011

What I have is not what I always wanted


Dream of having the best toy ever;
Dream of having the best friends in school ever;
Dream of having studied in the best school/college;
Dream of having the best job ever;
Dream of having the best love ever.

These are some of the most common dreams which we all have/had. Some got fulfilled, some do not. But one thing will always remain in us – We never stop dreaming. It is only the inner wish to work for the dream that we start putting efforts to achieve that goal.
We start the initial efforts with enough hard work and determination. But what do you think of the reason behind some of us achieving the set goals and some not achieving it. It may be the lack of hard work, smart work, determination, or something else. But one big reason is the inability to access your progress.
Let us take the reference of the following life graph. We are at the point O. The point we want to reach is A. The journey is the straight line, but there are some things in our life which divert us a little. These things can be our friends, family, or anyone/anything else. That diversion seems so negligible that we find ourselves on the right track. Say right now (after the less diversion), we are at the point which is at 2x vertical distance from the line OA.
I will completely agree with the point that this diversion is too small for that instance. And this is what goes wrong. This small diversion finally takes us to the point B. When we reach point B, we realize that this is not something I dreamed of.
The best way to avoid this situation is to access you at each stage. I do understand that some so-called diversions are tough to avoid; and it will be always wise to return to the right track even if you are at 2x distance from the actual line.

2 comments:

  1. you are bro, but remember one thing, that the best way to live life is to "LIVE"...
    the more we expect the more we get into trouble and the more our aims and targets in life go out of the reach.. better way would be to think and implement coz the more we think the we become restless by our own, coz our thoughts leads us to negativity of the life and which indeed isnt good for life...

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  2. @ Khusru - I do agree with the point you have made about having more and more expectations. But I have a different stand point about Life. I cannot take the best way of living life as "LIVE" because of the fact that I personally find a big difference between doing something by force and doing something by choice. Just living the life will be the natural process, then where are we adding LIFE to life.

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