This piece of mine
can be treated as a random ranting or rambling . A general perception that led
to the flow of series of thoughts.
'Engineer by chance
and blogger by choice' - read a tagline or let me be true to you all, I
somewhere feel this for me. And same could be story of many.
This is an age long
battle, strongest of the dilemmas to follow passion or not, and seems to be a
reality check now. Always there has been a thick line difference between
passion and profession. But despite that
many of us in fact most of us tend to give up our passion. And I completely
follow it's one of the toughest choice indeed and thus has been a chapter for strong debate
over years. We are bound to enfold our dreams knowingly or unknowingly. Because
the fight always has been is what we love will not pay us as much. So eventually one has to chose between
passion and pay , pay to yield benefits that may support good living. This leads to burial of
innumerable dreams. But always we should not stand to blame anyone, as there might be valid set of logic behind this for most of the cases. Various factors
contributing the inclination towards
booming professions and career options may include parental pressure, peer
pressure, financial liabilities, responsibilities, late realization, and other
related situations. Though 'pressure' is the only one here which might be dreadful. But, the end result
is that the passion is crushed somewhere in the journey, journey in the pursuit
of success. Though we may have to pay a heavy price and face endless struggle
in the race of reaching new heights, and of course many fail in the same as well.
The one question we need to ask ourselves is that is this the right parameter
to measure success. How long one can
sustain leaving behind the undone dreams and aimlessly running behind money. Though success thus
achieved is capable of fulfilling the needs but the joy is very short-lived
indeed. The contentment and
the feeling of self accomplishment
achieved on pursuing passion is definitely incalculable. But pondering
upon the factors that led to choose the career path can not be ignored even. If not always, many
a times, the helplessness and compulsions traverse us to unusual path. And if that's the
scenario, barring any sort of pressure, I personally don't think there's any
wrong in choosing the way out that would
assist in paying the bills which in turn holds true essence for the survival. Keeping
in mind that one is able to seek absorption in the chosen path thus possessing
relevant skills which would be needed to be engrossed and achieve delight. In
short all efforts to be made so that the interest keeps on dwelling. This may
sound stupid though. Amongst all this,
the point to be emphasized here is not to forget our passion, if within
ourselves we hold perseverance to achieve big, we should be capable enough to
keep that dream alive, though taking it as a parallel rather than mainstream
job. So, to my belief it's never late to revive the lost passion, why letting
it perish.
But yeah, highly
fortunate are those who are privileged to make
worthy livings out of passion.
