BeginGreat

"What do you want to become when you grow up? You can be anything you wish for. You just have to put your heart into it." Sounds familiar!? You can be anything you want. But the lure isn't anything. It's everything. You want to be a doctor? Well, engineering is much peaceful. You want to be a businessman? Having a recurring salary is safer. You want to earn more? Don't be greedy. You want to earn less? Money gives you freedom. You want to earn just enough? How much is enough. What do you want to become? You can be anything. But the world is designed to lure you to be everything. We are being stranded at the crossroads, becoming nothing. We have grown from the days of okay thing, being sold on the dream of anything, lured deep into the maze of everything, but possess the skill to become nothing. At least be something.

We all have talents. For some, it could be cooking, and for others, it could be coding. We all love to do one thing, and we excel at it beyond our comprehension. Now, do we use that talent for our livelihood is another question that I am not trying to ask. But we love to do that thing and also talk about it. For me, it's reading and writing. Have I read all the classics? No. Am I a fast reader? No. Do U write the best in my circle? No. But if I hear a conversation in my vicinity about reading or writing, I chime in without any second thought, not because I'm the best, but because I feel I belong in that space. That expression didn't come overnight. I struggled with an issue that I see everyone struggles with. "Confidence". The first thought the other person gets the moment I say I love reading and writing is that I'm overconfident. Well, at least that's what I thought. If I say I like the art of words, do they think that I'm boasting? Even if I talk ab...

 As the weekend rolls off and Monday comes by, immediate attention goes to the next holiday. How many days for another break? What can we do on that holiday? A trip? An outing? Attend an event? More than the day itself, the infinite possibility feels amazing. But the truth is, it wouldn't be that different from this weekend. And off we will be again to another holiday, expecting something exciting to emerge on the horizon. But, aren't we looking at the whole thing as a winding clock? Wind it for two days, try to run it for five days, wind it back for the next two days. Every single holiday we try to wind it faster, tighter but end up in the same cycle. Don't get me wrong, cycles are necessary. I believe cycles are predictable and hence give us a chance to bring unpredictability at planned times rather than trying to go for a swim on a random Tuesday. But I've been thinking these 5 + 2 cycles are exhausting. Longer. How to bring it down? Can we make it 3 + 1/2? That'...