"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't." ~Chuck Palahniuk
This day is unique and special, just like the day before and the one that beckons tomorrow. But this day is unique, for today you can change the world.
Knowing what you want out of an endeavor is akin to performing the task itself. Knowing has various levels of existence. It could be a flying thought into your head or it could be a detailed blue print sketching out every minute measurement of your road to salvation. Knowing and awareness of the world around you is a lot like being in love. One day you get up and you just know. So stop thinking. Just know.
A lot has been written and said about unconventional and bold choices that others make. Nothing ever will be written about the turmoil inside of us when we are given a choice to make. The bipolarity of our emotional tussles are the best kept secrets in the world. Secrets you long to confide in someone but would do everything in your power to keep it from them. Bipolarity.
There comes a time in each of our lives when we have to stick our neck out and take a call. Half of us make the wrong call. It was a 50-50 shot anyways. Amongst them, half will cry and wail about it, while the remaining will bide their time and wait for an opportunity to punt. To be a master of their destiny.
Sometimes the things that you own end up owning you. You become your Sony psp. You are your Honda civic. You end up as you hp dx 2000. You are no longer you. You become them.
This is digression. So weren’t we talking about knowing what you want?
Some people are just lucky to find their calling in life. Some others are luckier to answer life knocking on their doors at a very young age. While the others end up in jobs they don’t like just to pay their bills. It’s a compromise that they make with life. The only problem is that life never compromises. It puts you in an illusion of security. So much so, that you devaluing your blessings. Then life pulls the carpet from under your feet. On your way down your mind is caught between counting those very blessings and cushioning the emotional thud.
Funny ways life has to remind you that you are still alive. We all have to wake up to the fact that we all aren’t going to be successful, money minting machines that have women slithering over us. No, some of us aren’t even going to see our 40th birthday. At least one of us will be dead by the end of this year. But that however must not stop you from enjoying your lives.
If you think you are in pain, say that to the guys undergoing chemotherapy. If you think your life stinks, meet those orphans who don’t even know what it is to be loved. If you think your god hates you, think of those fetuses that are aborted every 45 seconds who don’t even see the light of day till they see the wrong side of a lethal vacuum pump. God doesn’t hate you, no you aren’t even that important. He is just indifferent. Or he may be hopeful that you are smart enough to figure your life out. I know I am. I hope you are.
