Wednesday, January 23, 2008

2B Or Not2B

...Can I keep myself away from these nagging thoughts about life and its viscious circles? Not for long I guess. Too many thoughts in my mind - but will take one at a time to avoid confusion...as I unleash one, there are two other playing on...seeking paper respite...but you gotta' wait.
...my last post and the comments there have opened a plethora of thoughts - debatable, yes and no...so we will come back to those later, if we at all do and feel the need. For now and here, it is 'to be or not to be'.
To let life play with you or be cautious, to just let things flow the way they flow or perhaps do a reality check somewhere, get facts in place and then a series of additions/deletions/multiplications/divisions and finally the sum! if you ask me this question, pat comes the reply 'it depends on situations..it also depends on my need for xyz situations'. But if I think more, it is not even the situation or my need for that situation - sometimes the situation gets the better off you when you start failing in your attempts to keep the situation in control. Similarly, need or no need it was in the beginning, soon it becomes an inherent requirement, an indispensable one! Phew!!! Not once, not twice, I guess am three times a victim and perhaps even more. Stop thinking about me, you am sure would have equally been into such a soup yourself umpteen times. Why do we do what we do? And knowingly? Pity.
How many times at work do you sit and analyze the day that went by - what was 'out-of-the-ordinary' that I did, was I able to meet the committed target, am I raising my bars with every day, will I get the time to do something other than what I am supposed to do....thinking beats all..but when we come to doing, we miserably fail.
Competition - another word that is favourite among so many of us. Well, there is a constant need for it. Yet, it is not everything that you want to do. It should not be a must do - I guess I agree with my friend 'West' here when she says that the only person you compete with is yourself. I would want to do that all the time and whenever I do, I amuse myself and the person in me.
Many of my readers in the past have asked me 'what was the thought behind the stuff that you wrote. While I like the fact that they are keen on me as a person than what I write as a writer...I guess it is small little things from everyday life that trigger these posties that I write. The thought behind what I wrote today was 'Should I pursue what I am getting into'. I see the carrot already in what I am getting into, but there sure is going to be a terrible digestion problem later. Just wondering whether I should be or not be, what I want to be. :-) And to add another thought, there is a reality check for anything and everything we do in life - we usually don't let things flow by...it's your precious life, afterall.
Don't come back to me and say you did not understand a word of this post. I am not sure I understood either. :D

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why do we all have to be such control freaks? Why can't we at times just let go & let life takes its normal flow? I would really love to just sit on the banks & watch life flow by. Once in a while. Give up the cause & effect syndrome.

& what are we competing with or for?

Anonymous said...

This comment doesn't sound familiar to me...to be an anonymous...anyway...to answer your point...we DON"T have to be such control freaks at any given time. We can always let life go by as it goes..which is what I always believe in and do.

Competing with self...for exceling...striving to be our best...

~ ॐ ~ said...

kya likha hai ye itna sab?

mujhe to aadha pauna bhi samajh nai aaya... phir se reedunga baad mein...

in the middle of a few important meetings today...

aur mon... masta rehne ka... tension nai lene ka...

Anonymous said...

:D bahut dum hai itne sab mein...

Samajh nahi aaya - haan mujhe pata hai. Tumhare liye hai bhi nahi wo...tum rehne do.

Hmm...important logon ki imp meetings hi hoti hain...hum jaise log waile hote hain...;D

Aur Om...tum chinta nahi karne ka...Mon ekdum mast rehne ka...ab...lolz...

~ ॐ ~ said...

i am sure bahut dumm hai re... never had a doubt there...

par main ye phir se padunga when i am home later in the day...

important ho jaate hain log when replacement ki baari aati hai, I am moving out of my current project na... so doing a lot of Knowledge Transfer.... tu walli... nai re nai :) aise kaise !!! tum bhi important ho re !!!

Main chinta nai karta jiiiiii...

That was it... said...

Thank you for telling me I am important - I like to hear that quite often...:D

Can understand the knowledge transfer bit...that happens..you are suddenly the most important soul on this earth.

Good...chintaram!

Sakshi said...

I guess its like sand... the more you try to control it, the more it will slip off... so just take it easy and chillax :)

Anonymous said...

Think..being in relax state of mind makes thing crystal clear...Key is to be comfortable with oneself...(did i make any sense..???)

Anonymous said...

That does sound like you-am actually impressed by the fact that should some one meet you-he/she will never be able to guess what goes on in that beautiful mind of yours. Coming to the dilemmas-ONE LIFE AND ONLY ONE SIN......NOT TO BE YOUR BEST-you never compete with the world-you just give it your best shot. As to whether it's worth it-that ,my dear Laura has to be answered purely by you.....each of us has a different value system

Anonymous said...

Doc...you make me think like no one else...you ROCK with your thoughts...trust me on this. And yes, you give world your best shot and for so many other things in life - you just do that. What you get and how it makes you feel is entirely upto you to take.

Anonymous said...

@rekha..yes you sure did honey...