Monday, February 13, 2006

What to do with life

Few things, wasting my time on.
In the nutshell how do I answer "what do I want to do with my life?" .Truthfully, nothing, just allow me to read books, sleep a lot and generally allow me to be a bum. But nobody accept this answer. Essentially they say, I should do only what I want to do but "what I want to do" should be a secure choice and ultimately should lead to a paycheck :) . Too bad but I want to be a bum, thats it.
Alright, let's explore this further, I agree that I should do what I truly, sincerely believe in, what I'm good at, time loses its meaning when I'm doing it and once I go for the smoke after indulging in it and I enjoy that too. wow, lets decide/discover that. Let's give it a 'Dil Chahta hai' test for 2 minutes.
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Alright 2 minutes are over, and do I know what I want to do? Boom, still I want to be a bum.
Now we can explore this decide/discover part a little later, or perhaps in another post.
Here is how I want to go about it.
Let's go with needs an desires -:)
What I desire is a bungalow with a private beach and a hill resort cottage, good food (read Lebanese), good wine(read not too fancy but good red wine ) :) and be a bum. About 100 millions $ -:)

What I need is a monthly pay rent,some budget to buy books, surf net and standard Dal,Roti.About 100,000 $ :)
Ok, I can start being a bum pretty early i.e. when I have 100k invested, isn't it? I don't have to get a paycheck necessarily to be a bum . I can be little more responsible, a little more patient till I make 100K. After that I'll be responsible/patient only for those who don't stop me(actually only those who help me) being a bum.
Wait a minute, this gives me little insight in my CEO's behaviour, how come he is so patient with me, I'm not great conversationalist, I don't do engaging conversation, I'm more of a blunt guy but he is still paitent with me. Only 2 reasons
1. I help him doing something he truly likes
2. He is making his 100K (Whatever that may be)