When the smoke is going down..................................
Artist: Scorpions;
This article is a continuation to what Rohan had written earlier, which really inspired my thought and blogging. It is in continuation to “BECAUSE I CHOOSE TO..”
How many times have you felt, that you have been living your life to the fullest? How often you want to live life extreme?
Nothing is as satisfying as satisfaction - A personal satisfaction in a world where achievement is second hand. Achievement is synonymous to an act, duty or accomplishment that is approved, recognized and appreciated by someone else. So when people sit down to contemplate their achievement, the reflections are merely in terms of academics for the geeks, failure for the jerks, social-service for the politicians and promotion for a regular service class individual. Satisfaction is what you reach when you do something for none other but your own self. Anything extra that you may achieve is purely fluky and or just a consequence.
The other inspiration to this article comes from a song by Scorpions – WHEN THE SMOKE IS GOING DOWN. The song talks about the band scorpions who want to be on stage even after the audience have left. They want to be there for the love of it. They want to do it all over again only for themselves. Because they simply love it.
Do we truly love our work? Does it come out of our OWN choice? Or simply because we are entrusted the duty to perform a task, so we shall succeed if we manage to complete it. Till today, all that most of us have been doing is what the system has demanded from us. But it is only few distinct individuals who trace the self-made paths.
I wish I could belong to myself. Do a little bit not because I am required to do, but because I enjoy doing it. Yes, I want to be on the stage even when there is no audience. I want to do it for myself. I want to work for no men or organization but for myself. I wish I live a life like this every day. I wish my work will keep me occupied and fascinated till and beyond the time when the smoke is gone down, the lights have gone dim and the gates are closed. It will only be me and my work and loads of contentment…. How I wish??? The pursuit begins very soon…
4 comments:
hey, i feel the content u r talking abt after only this post on our blog. havent felt it for a long time.this is what i wanted on this blog, when i invited u to write here, finally there. i invited you not because ppl will read what sunny thinks or is, just because i wanted to see the real sunny.
And yes, welcome to Atlantis if u have reached that part of atlas shrugged, that is a place where the gates open only when u do what u want, there is no audience and the lights never go dim.
cherish the choice and the dynamism of youth my friend, the pessimist will say it'll never come back, the optimist will say once in a lifetime is enough :D
from the words of Baz Lurhman
"
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth;
oh nevermind;
you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….
.......
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
"
cheers to a great post, wish me luck, i have mechanics tomorrow :D
Kudos. thanks for the acknowledgment on "Because i choose to...". This one means a lot to me personally (deeply moved). the reaction will soon be visible soon (on this blog).
you write real well =D
and i like the fact that there's a song for everything that anyone would ever want to say.
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