A begginning

Oh yes I have lots of things to talk about in my first blog…or so I thought! As I start writing this one, I feel bereft of ideas.

Maybe a little introduction would help breaking the ice

Name of blog: kamusing

Meaning: Left to your interpretation
Actually the writer can get pensive (when the writer is disturbed) or sometimes intentionally or unintentionally amusing (when the writer just wants to disturb others)

Reason for starting to write:
To discover my thought process that can vary from a confused state of mind to a relaxed philosophical one.
To reach out to everyone I know and hopefully make new friends and acquaintances who can add another dimension to my thought process.
Read: All this is bullshit, it is just peer pressure :D

Now that I have given a brief introduction, I would like to get started with my first blog.

As I started my 27th year of existence today, I started to wonder as to what my goal in life is? As soon as someone starts talking about goals in life, thoughts go something like this - My short term goals are to work in challenging projects, "add value" to the organization blah blah, My long term goal is blah and more blah…..

But is this all that I want to do in my life? Great job, fat salary, be ahead of your competition in the “big bad corporate world”, get married, settle down, have kids, retire and go into oblivion. NO!!
But then what is it that I want from life? What do I want to achieve?
I don’t know. I DO NOT HAVE A CLUE!

Yes building my career, beating all competition to emerge on top, having a comfortable life, roaming around in a luxury car are all things which I would want to do, but surely, they should not be the only things I want from life.

What is my a bigger aim? I would want to go visit a lot of interesting places, know different cultures, understand people, grow as a person, add value to myself and if possible to people around me, in my own small way. Yes, I would like to have an opportunity to do all of this.


But sadly, in today’s world that we inhabit, all this seems to be out of reach. In the maddening pace that we have set for ourselves, we do not have time to think of all this. Add to this the added pressure that we are subjected to - Comparison with friends, colleagues, relatives etc etc. So instead of finding our true calling in life, all we end up doing is catching up, meeting expectation not of our own but of someone else.

Why is this so? Why can’t people be different? Can’t they have different benchmarks of a happy life? Should all of them have the same goals as if they have come programmed out of some assembly line?

These are some thoughts that I have often pondered about. Hopefully someday I would get an opportunity to get out of the rat race and hopefully I will be able to complete the sentence: “My goal in life is…”

Signing off for now..

PS: In a different plane of thought, I have another question..Can someone help me search a good accomodation in this not so Goodgaon?









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