Last year around the same time i wrote a small piece about being 25 and yet to begin. With the year gone by , with a bit more wrinkles on the forehead , with a bit more experience of people and of the world i believe its apt to think and write about what we middle class working professionals suffering from a mid life crisis go through.
I use this term for people in a particular age group with a very different outlook towards the world but yet related by a very similar crisis that we go through in our lives.
The time in the life when you should have at least got to start doing what you really want to do, the time when you should have a firm hold over your live's responsibilities , the time when you should have a good financial stability, the time when you should have finally decided upon the person you think can bear spending the whole life with you but instead of having achieved any of these you are rather spending days and nights in surviving the rat race that somehow manages to suck the life out of you. The very race that kind off doesn't allow you to fully explore your dreams and wont let you think about realizing your own passions.
These are the times when you probably have amazing ideas in your minds, ideas that according to you can shape a generations's future, ideas that you believe can restructure and revolutionize an entire set of people but instead of getting mad and following our own ideas we don't seem to come out of the rut that the professional space has created for us.
We think a lot about present and the future but we lack the necessary willpower to execute the ideas , the strength to make our very own ideas see the light of the day. Some might call this plain bad luck but in more precise terms this can be aptly called a lack of self confidence. The confidence that has somehow been dented by our very own actions in the corporate world that we have been a part of, the confidence that never gains an inch when the person you discuss your gigantic ideas with plays you and your ideas down not because he or she doesn't like it but partly because they are not ready or willing to come out of the already setup comfort zone and fight the whole damn system which in general terms is pretty tough but not impossible.
The times when you can clearly judge and understand that the more you grow in terms of positions and money in the corporate amalgamation the more your expenses grow and with it grows the ultimate desire of being satisfied in job and in life. The desire that you always thought would reach its pinnacle when you had a certain amount of money and certain passions to follow but we always tend to overlook the fact that this desire of ours could have never set a bench mark for itself instead it was always directed by our insatiable hunger of material benefits in life.
Its also a point in life when you are not able come to terms with the fact that your salary hasn't touched six figures and the passing out students from top notch colleges are still turning down salaries that extend well into eight figures for pursuing their dreams and doing something they always wanted to do.
It makes us wonder how can we unleash the inner demon of ours onto everything that stops us from taking the handle of our own lives and what can be done to sensibly follow the path that we set and remind ourselves of every night in our sub conscious minds.
In nutshell , Dream but with open eyes because no matter what your age is and what crisis you go through in life it is the dreams that always makes us go to infinite lengths to achieve something that we have always wanted to...!!
P.S-- The writer is about to be 26 and still Yet To Begin.. !!!
I use this term for people in a particular age group with a very different outlook towards the world but yet related by a very similar crisis that we go through in our lives.
The time in the life when you should have at least got to start doing what you really want to do, the time when you should have a firm hold over your live's responsibilities , the time when you should have a good financial stability, the time when you should have finally decided upon the person you think can bear spending the whole life with you but instead of having achieved any of these you are rather spending days and nights in surviving the rat race that somehow manages to suck the life out of you. The very race that kind off doesn't allow you to fully explore your dreams and wont let you think about realizing your own passions.
These are the times when you probably have amazing ideas in your minds, ideas that according to you can shape a generations's future, ideas that you believe can restructure and revolutionize an entire set of people but instead of getting mad and following our own ideas we don't seem to come out of the rut that the professional space has created for us.
We think a lot about present and the future but we lack the necessary willpower to execute the ideas , the strength to make our very own ideas see the light of the day. Some might call this plain bad luck but in more precise terms this can be aptly called a lack of self confidence. The confidence that has somehow been dented by our very own actions in the corporate world that we have been a part of, the confidence that never gains an inch when the person you discuss your gigantic ideas with plays you and your ideas down not because he or she doesn't like it but partly because they are not ready or willing to come out of the already setup comfort zone and fight the whole damn system which in general terms is pretty tough but not impossible.
The times when you can clearly judge and understand that the more you grow in terms of positions and money in the corporate amalgamation the more your expenses grow and with it grows the ultimate desire of being satisfied in job and in life. The desire that you always thought would reach its pinnacle when you had a certain amount of money and certain passions to follow but we always tend to overlook the fact that this desire of ours could have never set a bench mark for itself instead it was always directed by our insatiable hunger of material benefits in life.
Its also a point in life when you are not able come to terms with the fact that your salary hasn't touched six figures and the passing out students from top notch colleges are still turning down salaries that extend well into eight figures for pursuing their dreams and doing something they always wanted to do.
It makes us wonder how can we unleash the inner demon of ours onto everything that stops us from taking the handle of our own lives and what can be done to sensibly follow the path that we set and remind ourselves of every night in our sub conscious minds.
In nutshell , Dream but with open eyes because no matter what your age is and what crisis you go through in life it is the dreams that always makes us go to infinite lengths to achieve something that we have always wanted to...!!
P.S-- The writer is about to be 26 and still Yet To Begin.. !!!
