Doing my time!
Updated on November 6th with a clarifying addendum.
How often have you thought your life sucks? How things are stagnating? Just not moving at the pace you want them to. How there's that one thing which just seems to evade you no matter how hard you try? And when you try to be indifferent to it, thinking maybe that'll do the trick, and it still doesn't. How life could be so much more, and you're just not realising your full potential.
Then, someone tells you how lucky you are and how you've got so much going on for you. It's a whole new perspective. You've just gotten so used to cribbing about every little thing that's not right, that (to indulge in a cliche) you forget how much is going right.
More often, though, it's just that the things you have are not the ones you would place at the top if you had to prioritise, whereas the other person would. One might envy you for the money you make, when you would willingly give that up just so you could not be single anymore. Or they might envy the relationship you're in, when you'd trade it for a more fulfilling career.
Someone once told me I don't know the value of things because they come easy to me, that I didn't have to do my time for them, and somehow that didn't ring true. Maybe some things come easy to me, but others don't. I guess we all have our strengths, and our weaknesses (e.g. Some of you might be able to make sense of the crap I'm writing, I, for one, have no clue!), but the way we're designed, to never be satisfied with what we have and to always crave what we don't, I think we're all doing time, baby... all doing time!
Addendum: I guess I'm not at my best at conveying ideas right now. Here is an attempt to clarify the thought behind this post, made neccessary by this interpretation of it by Erimentha.
I don't neccessarily mean there are static goals that are evading you, it's more about a state of being, a pace of moving, the frequency of your being faced with a challenge. The things that evade you are themselves of a dynamic nature. You know this is not the best you can do, but you're forced to stay to ensure the achievement of another longer term goal. It's like the middle 15 overs in an innings of cricket. You've had a good start, but it's not time yet to hit every ball out of the park. So, till we reach the slog overs, we're all doing time!
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10 comments:
"as a rule
man is a fool
when it's hot
he wants it cool
when it's cold
he wants it hot
always wanting
what is not."
/mark twain/
fee fo fi fum
The beauty of writing is that everyone reads it differently, isn't it? What people read into what you've written, and why, is not always something you know.
gosh this was incredibly true, you kind of just wrote down ,what me and perhaps a lot of ppl are thinking rite now. life is a bitch. i read this article long time back about how ppl from our generation suffer from acute dissatisfaction, we are never satisfied with what we have, we are always tryingto reach out for something else, never appreciating the moment, just looking forward. when i first read it, i thot i was diff or would be diff , but its a vicious circle, its completely drawn me in, and truly, when ppl call me lucky or envy me, i laugh at them, cause i dont seem to have reached my personal goals which i mite add thanks to all this dis-satisfaction is like a mirage , playing illusionary tricks on me. - anyway lovely to read someone else's thots echoing mine. suggestion - have a chocolate sundae :-)
Nocturne: It's not really the "grass-green-other side" phenomenon I'm trying to restate. I guess the addendum should clarify.
Loved the rhyme though.
Erimentha: The phrase you're looking for is "ho hum".
The reason for the addendum was not that others interpreted it differenly. The post didn't convey what I wanted to say, even to me! A result of writing after ages, I guess.
AnonymousI shall definitely do that, only it'll be a Chocolate Excess. Had a load of chocolates yesterday :).
P.S. @Anonymous: Am not a big fan of anonymous comments. The only reason they're still enabled is that I do not want to restrict comments to Blogger users. Do leave a name next time.
AB
i can completely emphathise with ur dislike for anonymity, but i dont know , i like it. I like the cloak it gives one. and anyway whats in a name
if anonymous posts really irk u, i guess i wont post any comments, dont want to make a fellow blogger feel umncomfortable. however jagged u mite think ur writing is, i hope u keep on writin, btw like ur reviews on movies , its a fun read :-)
pThanks for the appreciation.
I guess a lot of us need that cloak to be totally honest.
However, a great way of doing so could be getting an anonymous Blogger id. It helps the other figure out that it's the same 'anonymous' person as last time.
Anyways, it doesn't make me uncomfortable. I just prefer to know who the comments are coming from.
Or you could keep smashing the ball through the middle fifteen overs and thereafter so either you end up at 438/3, or get bowled out in the 31st.
At any rate, you wouldnt be doing time.
I just got back to reading blogs and read yours and then Zubins and well...:p. Now I'm depressed.
@Anant: Ah but then I'd be Achilles or Alexander.
That's just not me. The thought of being bowled out is slightly scary, especially when I'm already playing a bonus innings.
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