Why is it important to differentiate between a Career and a Life..

Must admit that this blog never needed any adrenaline boost nor did the life kick me hard. Since I am the only ingredient of this subtle soup of my life , albeit penning down at the oddest hour ....



Dissect your life into two halves.. One when you were a 16 year old dreamer (satisfied )and the other when you are a 28 year old slogger (smugly self -satisfied) . Nothing has changed.. you close ones still set the same expectations on you, your "larger than realistic" relatives still comment...You prefer the same Polo T shirts and smoke the same brand of cigarrettes.

What has changed is a "dreamer turned slogger ".

Precisely , Why is it important to differentiate between a Career and a Life...

As long as you are aloof to your life , you are contented and happy, and then you see your counterparts slogging and you realize what a loser you have been .. That sinister 2*2 matrix of Success & Money , you desparately try to fit yourself there > You suddenly want to earn more > bleed in the competition >rise to the pinnacle,only to retire and live a happy life.. Umpteen times this has been repeated... but you still struggle read between the lines. Oblivious of the fact is that you allow yourself to be judged better by others than you do yourself.

If only you could realize that the matrix was a self proclaimed baby of a gentleman who never emphasized that both these elements were missing when you were born , and shall display similar traits of brutal & dishonest camaraderie when you lie in your grave !!

Must stop for a minute and mention about a friend of mine , a terrifc MBA lad who was joined an MNC.I could sense the change in him from the early days.. His persona was significantly affected by the toll. Not always does the relationship between Work and Employee turn out to be symbiotic ....The smile was there every evening , just that the honest effort required to to bring it on the face increased significantly with each passing day! He was doing wonderful in the firm but something was missing somewhere ..Shockingly , this chap dropped his papers somedays back. When i asked him the reason , plain came the reply " I wasnt enjoying what i was doing and i need a break to understand what i want ".. To many this might seem a foolish act of impulsive decision making..many would also doubt his maturity level ... compare it with theirs.. and stroll way with a complacent smile on their faces but what he did needed guts...and what gave him that was his own self belief... He hasnt lost anything.. he was in the Wrong job ,doing Perfect things..but ultimately he realized that he was doing Perfectly Wrong things !! Not many of us get to this level...



Allergy - Is a known one...spreads like a flu..destroys your state of mind , and the real you!

Remedy - You are no immortal .. encash the smallest of the happiness, exult at the minutest of the victories.. touch base the farthest of the friends...and show reverence towards the "Strange yet Beautiful" life...



Dont die each day while living when all you shall think at your death bed is that " You Forgot To Live " !