about life and career

Today when I see people near and around me, I see everybody enjoying their work and sastisfied with the growth opportunities tied with the career path one has chosen for himself. In my view, all of them are happy or at least they seem so to me. The reason, as my hunch goes, might be because some have decided to stay like this forever either because of incompetency or because of overly enjoying their current being or rather ignoring the more fruitful possibilities out of the periphery they are bound in or something else of that sort. Others are happy because they know that the role they are playing is temporary and they have to move on some day to some other role, sooner or later. And Its that feeling that strengthen them to be pleasant and to laugh merrily.

I know a lot of my friends, who, if I am nt exaggerating, are almost mad about getting into a B school and trade their youthful 2 years for another degree, to be proudly named as 'Master of Business Adminsitration'. Strange !!! isn't it? We spend most of our youthful days and our energy in collecting degrees, making career and figuring out more and more avenues of genearting moolah. Which is ulmimately meant to be spend by our better halves, kids or the other family members. I am not against making career or money or future, for that matter. But I would prefer to enjoy the journey rather than being deprived throughout the journey to save some bucks which could be spend after reaching the destination.

To me, life is not a game of cricket where you are either on batting side or on fielding side, either stiker end or at non-stiker end, or finishing 50 odd spells for your team to play opposite team's attacks later. I dont see my present as if I am getting ready for something that might happen tomorrow. I draw more appropriate analogy of my life with the game of football, where other than two goalkeepers everybody else is at, more or less same position. They all, in unison, have one motto, to be alert for the next attack, be attentive toards others' moves, be calm to think of the possible ways to get the ball to its right fate and to be disciplined to keep yourself aligned with the team's startegies.