Sometimes I wonder what happened to the set lives our
parents.They were contented in their routine lives and for many excitement was only limited to travel to a destination in form of annual leaves. Life was mundane to the core but today
the twists of life, at work and in relationships is simply mind - boggling.
What has led to such
a dramatic change of outlook? Has it become so difficult or impossible to live
with a situation/person or are we victim of choice? Is choice spoiling us? or
Is it the "problem of choice" which spoils us? We have become like a
kid gone crazy in a new ice cream parlour and I sometimes fear that to get to
our "bestest" flavour we may just loose the best time to have the ice cream itself.
Also we really want to be happy.... by confirming to
established norms of happiness. Our social media and social communities throw
daily dose of challenges to us in the form of "success stories" of
how "happy" our friends and peers are. It is an interesting
observation that some upload each minuscule detail of their "happy"
life using pictures and status updates as to detail how it happens and when it
happens and only post one quote drooling with wisdom to mark a sad event. Think
about the pressure when at times we feel that everyone except us is having the
best time of their lives and thus we hunt for more choices to become happy.
It is important to choose but most important to
decide.......to understand that every new choice will come with its new frills
and new perils. The pursuit of perfection which preoccupies us nowadays leave
no room for it to be cultivated. Our parents used to work on everything,
starting from relationships to a new recipe. They used to put their labour and
therefore used to get the satisfaction not in making a perfect choice but in
shaping their choice to perfection. That equation however was driven on two
factors - time and patience and we are a generation which haplessly are starved for both.
The question to ponder upon is what should be the pace of our life. Once we have decided this "unique pace" of life, the rest becomes easy. Our life then doesnt feel the need to mirror success stories of others as we are contented on our path. We are not shopping for new choices and bringing more complexities in our life. We can stop and smell the roses and go happily with our journey but the real question is - are we ready to really change the course of our lives to such a no frills existence?
Definitely a question to ponder upon.....
