My lil dream world ..

This was one evening in hostel in the final yr. Vicky had just got his placement, and we were all celebrating the occassion, sitting outside kari's room n drinking silly. It was vicky, kari, birla, shady, n me. As always one topic came up where we all had a strong point to put forward ..

Me: " Life has got more stuff than just being in a job man .. I mean one definitely needs to do a job but then should not loose focus on other things that he or she loves doing."
Vicky: "its all a bloody rat race, you just keep getting sucked into the system, slowly n steadily even b4 u realize, you have lost touch of all those things that you thot u wud do in life"
Me: " Na, i beg to differ ! i think one definitely can go ahead n manage things, and always still pursue his dreams hobbies .. watever makes him happy"
Vicky: " Its easier said then done. You are saying this coz u aint part of the system yet."

Its been 3 years since that discussion.

Now i look back at myself, all naive and living in this dreamworld of doing wat not with life. Dont get me wrong, i love my life and am enjoying every bit of it. I still manage to do everything i feel like .. as dolphin puts it, i live in my own dream world. But frankly, i say wats wrong with living in one, i end up staying happy and not get bogged down by realities.

Now, most probably i wud be doing my mba next yr. Now a course like that has tremendous potential to get one right in the center of the rat race, more salaries, quicker life with all the ringin blackberry's and flying across to attend x number of meetings across the globe. Life shifts gears, and the dreams then just seem like dreams.

But here again, i think there is a lot more to it then just that. Its upto one to pick his battles and resist to lead one's own life. Dont get me wrong, i am not saying i dnt want success or specifically professional success. But that's just a part of the big picture, there is so much more .. As someone wrote 'Be more than what you do' .. I think here the 'more' is defined by the way you lead your life.

I'll give my view again on my lil dream world 3 yrs hence to see whether reality caught up with me or not ..