Sometimes, I get amazed if I think of a man, leading a static life. Here, the word static doesn’t refer to the reward less journey with no achievements. Rather, I wonder about the hidden secret behind leading a routine life. I don’t understand how a person could remain at the similar path for so many years and some times even many decades. Few may call it ‘consistency’ or in some way ‘determination.’ And if it is so, then no doubt it is a positive attribute of a personality. I don’t disagree with the idea of a consistent and determined life. For me consistency is not something which resists you in exploring new opportunities and a drive for the betterment. On contrary it is a hidden force behind you that keeps you moving and provides right direction according to your own requirement and desires.
Let’s examine a few cases. There is person A, who did some traditional degree, started his career from an executive, got some achievements followed by his promotions; years passed by and after 5-10 years he got some position, let say in management. In the same manner he spent his whole life; reaching office at 9, working, leaving at 6, coming back home, watching some television, having dinner and getting asleep. The most ironic part is that he never thought to try some new stuff, never explored new opportunities which his life would have brought forward. Rather he assumed that his life was meant in this way and didn’t have any other objective; something more meaningful, something more concrete.
On contrary, there is person B, who completed his education, had formed some provisional goal, and started his journey with so many confused and unsure desires. But after sometime, he realized that it was not something which he wanted from his life; his presence in this world is meant to have some other objective, something which was vague and indistinct at that moment but would get materialize in some understandable idea some day. In his endeavor of self exploration, he traveled so many miles aimlessly, put his hand into multiple fields but he was determined that one day, he would have a comprehensive and visible destination in front of him.
On the concluding note, I would like to say that if somebody is dedicated to taste different flavors of life and feel every existing color of this world, which enable him to explore all the opportunities that interest him then would he not be called consistent and dedicated in his aims? Or being an orthodox nation, we start blaming him with the charge of having a worthless and purposeless journey.
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