Imagine those hairs in
your body turning grey, those cheeks slowly dwindling, and those drooping eyes
in you, sitting near a beautiful pond watching the birds fly, the ducks swim, and
the cool breezing hurrying on to you. Yes, it is the time of your life, when
you are past your prime and moving along in life’s own pace. As the winds
huddle, your mind rolls back to the past. We sit down and ponder, “How I wish
My Life Was”. There were some beautiful and ecstatic moments along the way and
some not so great. Some dreams succeeded and some not.
The reminiscence
happens because we did not persevere something which we were passionate
about. Yes, I am here to share a thought
on my passion. When I say the word passion, I mean the zeal in me to fulfill
that desire, that ambition that thirst, before I bid goodbye to this world. It
is a self-promise that I have been nurturing into my heart ever since my
childhood. As I talk through this, I get reminded of the famous quote by Thomas
Alva Edison, “I
never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun”. The fact that Edison pursued his passion as a profession
led him to great glory. These lines struck me deeply as a child and the craving
to do what I love has always been there in me. There are certain things in life
that money cannot produce and the joy we obtain doing what we love is
priceless. It can never be paralleled to money.
I have a
dream. The dream of becoming a journalist/reporter. I grew up
reading the newspaper titled; “THE HINDU” in INDIA, and that was probably one
of my biggest inspirations to make this dream a reality. As a kid, reporters
presenting news in TV Channels always attracted my attention. I have still not
achieved that dream but I am sure I will make that happen in front of my eyes
and see the glee in my heart. This dream of a journalist would help me put forth
my views to the world, meet a variety of people and interact with them, and
spread the little good things I learn through different forms of media. I can
turn the society into a better place to live in my own little way.
I would personally
recommend this to everyone. “Do what you love and life will never seem more
beautiful”. By doing things that make us
happy, we are on our path to success. Success is not money or fame or name. It
is just doing those little things in life, that when recollected make us smile
and hold our head high in pride. Imagine this scenario when you sit down and
recollect all those lost golden chances, you feel you have betrayed your
conscience, you have gone against your own will and all you can do is repent
for it. When an opportunity presents itself and if it is something that we have
been yearning to do, we should prepare ourselves to take that first big step
and proudly say to our self, “Come what May, I am doing what I love”. The end
result, as to whether we succeeded or not is a different ball game altogether,
but the hindsight is “I did give it a shot”. That is what Life is all about, an
ice cream. Enjoy it before it melts.
I leave you all with
this quote by Hillary Swank, “You have
only one life and if you are not doing what you love, what’s the point?”. Thank
you once again for giving me this opportunity to turn into a reporter/speaker
for a short time.
