Weekend is finally here!! :)
Treating yourself with a cup of STARBUCKS coffee :P in these about to dawn winters with your best friend is the only definition of a great weekend for me :D ( of course chit chatting has to come in the picture or I would say long hours of chit chatting :P as the STARBUCKS staff is quite courteous to not disturb people involved in intense talks :P) So today I am going to share with you a very small, and may be you find it a bit confusing, portion of our long hours of chit chat.
Comfortably settled with our espressos in a peaceful ambiance, we started discussing everything from our school life to respective college lives' , from his crush to my lovers' :p , from our favorite teachers to the mates for who we shared common hatred, we laughed endlessly till our stomach hurt , we missed our school, our friends and those precious moments we spent together, we teased each other and then again laughed till we felt those eyes of fellow coffee lovers filled with anguish on us, embarrassing us. ;)
Now, the intense part, I mentioned, comes into the picture. We both being in our pre-final years of graduation, now discussed about LIFE- WHAT NEXT?? Amid our talks he came up with a very inspiring perspective about life which literary left me speechless, as in I had no words to counter his thoughts, his perspective and his belief. It really gave me some inspirational vibes and made me ponder - why I never thought of life and its actual meaning like this?
This is what he said :
" What does a settled life mean? Having a well-paid settled job, a flat in posh colony, a luxurious car, a beautiful spouse and in some later stage having children? Is there even a definite answer to this? Suppose one day you are fired from that well-paid settled job as the company is suffering from financial crisis, doesn’t your definition of a settled life change? But then, is life all about doing what your passion is? Suppose you always wanted to be a guitar player. So, one day you decide to leave everything and just practice guitar. You train yourself for years but you fail to get appreciation. You strive to even sustain your living and find out that choosing to live your dream was not a great idea. Doesn’t then the meaning of life change? To both the situations I would like to say, “Yes, the meaning will change”. You will start to think that, was the decision to be a guitarist right? Or were you really leading a well settled life? But this will happen only if you ‘kind of’ wanted those things, that is, you kind of wanted that settled life or you kind of wanted to be a guitarist. If you had sincerely wanted that from life you would have never cared what failures you have met. You would have gone out, challenged the failures without thinking what was wrong or right. You would have had searched for another job, without cribbing, till you found one, you would have carried on with your guitar without giving a damn to the appreciation you received, you would have carried on because it was what you always wanted. When you are doing something you always wished to do, you don’t care about the world, you don’t care about being right. Rather, you rise up above all this where you notice that nothing in this world is right or wrong. You find spirituality."
Amazed and moved.
P.S - He is a good guitarist who is polishing himself to be great one day :P
Treating yourself with a cup of STARBUCKS coffee :P in these about to dawn winters with your best friend is the only definition of a great weekend for me :D ( of course chit chatting has to come in the picture or I would say long hours of chit chatting :P as the STARBUCKS staff is quite courteous to not disturb people involved in intense talks :P) So today I am going to share with you a very small, and may be you find it a bit confusing, portion of our long hours of chit chat.
Comfortably settled with our espressos in a peaceful ambiance, we started discussing everything from our school life to respective college lives' , from his crush to my lovers' :p , from our favorite teachers to the mates for who we shared common hatred, we laughed endlessly till our stomach hurt , we missed our school, our friends and those precious moments we spent together, we teased each other and then again laughed till we felt those eyes of fellow coffee lovers filled with anguish on us, embarrassing us. ;)
Now, the intense part, I mentioned, comes into the picture. We both being in our pre-final years of graduation, now discussed about LIFE- WHAT NEXT?? Amid our talks he came up with a very inspiring perspective about life which literary left me speechless, as in I had no words to counter his thoughts, his perspective and his belief. It really gave me some inspirational vibes and made me ponder - why I never thought of life and its actual meaning like this?
This is what he said :
" What does a settled life mean? Having a well-paid settled job, a flat in posh colony, a luxurious car, a beautiful spouse and in some later stage having children? Is there even a definite answer to this? Suppose one day you are fired from that well-paid settled job as the company is suffering from financial crisis, doesn’t your definition of a settled life change? But then, is life all about doing what your passion is? Suppose you always wanted to be a guitar player. So, one day you decide to leave everything and just practice guitar. You train yourself for years but you fail to get appreciation. You strive to even sustain your living and find out that choosing to live your dream was not a great idea. Doesn’t then the meaning of life change? To both the situations I would like to say, “Yes, the meaning will change”. You will start to think that, was the decision to be a guitarist right? Or were you really leading a well settled life? But this will happen only if you ‘kind of’ wanted those things, that is, you kind of wanted that settled life or you kind of wanted to be a guitarist. If you had sincerely wanted that from life you would have never cared what failures you have met. You would have gone out, challenged the failures without thinking what was wrong or right. You would have had searched for another job, without cribbing, till you found one, you would have carried on with your guitar without giving a damn to the appreciation you received, you would have carried on because it was what you always wanted. When you are doing something you always wished to do, you don’t care about the world, you don’t care about being right. Rather, you rise up above all this where you notice that nothing in this world is right or wrong. You find spirituality."
Amazed and moved.
P.S - He is a good guitarist who is polishing himself to be great one day :P
