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Sunday 5 April 2015

And the list goes on.....


Last time I wrote something was almost 3 months back, life is keeping me busy. Seems like my professional life is taking over me gradually. Few days back I had my first shift duty 4*12, I saw people were going back to home and I was starting my eventful day at 4 pm. Day or night, its same for me, one part I am working another for some sleep. Reminded me of a story about a NRI in USA, whenever his parents call, he is either at work or asleep.

Many a times, I find myself thinking over 'how do I simplify my life further'. Life always make us learn and understand its fundamentals through very simple day to day life things. Another day I was making a list of the stuff I am going to need in my new rented apartment. I couldn't find more than 10-15 items that time, next day again I added ten more things to it and some more next day. 3-4 days later, the list I started with only ten items was going lengthy with the days passing. While looking at the list I found myself running out of budget with all that stuff on it. Again I started pulling out less priority stuff from it. We always go by priority, right now my professional career is utmost priority for me. But, we should always have a look at the flip side as well. Whatever choice I am making today, surely has some negative outcomes along with it. Of course, first you need to priorities your list to bring it back into budget limits. Not everything is essential, you can eliminate some of the stuff for the time, but at what cost. for this list, its nothing, but when it comes to life, the impacts are huge and irreversible.

We can't eliminate friends, family, health, hobbies and many such things from that list. One should always focus on carrier, but not by isolating oneself from the awesome people around us in this gigantic world. Eliminate only jargon's from the list, they are taking you nowhere, but making out of budget.

That day I said to myself 'It is wise to put yourself over this professionalism bullshit, since it is taking you nowhere, except that it is making you a little more busy and uncomfortable. It was valentine’s day and not too late to make some calls which I should be making regularly, but I didn't,  since I was so busy in pretending like I am. 

Mahesh Dangi