Don't work, play, be hated and many other ordinarily non-sensical things start making sense when a famous celebrity starts giving gyaan on the life. He / She will tell you precisely how your life is going to turn out (no surprises there, we are all going down the drain :P ). Nonetheless, they also know what you need to do so that it doesn't go that way (and you become what they are or achieve what they have).
Of course, they won't say it directly, they would wrap it in nice package (humour preferrably) and then deliver it to you. So , here you are graduating or whatever, when you get the newsflash. Dude (or Dudette) !!! whatever you have been doing so far, just wasn't right, you got it all wrong ( and I am talking about the normal people, who have been worrying to do well in life, for those that aforementioned event actually matters, exceptions are always there).
They will turn everything that you held dear in life so far on its head and tell you to do exactly opposite. This will be done with catchy, attention grabbing phrases (like, stay foolish or Don't work and yeda yeda). You will be intrigued at first, enthused next and confused two days after the ceremony is over. This is typically the time it takes for one get over the hangover of life changing motivational speech.
No, not for a moment I am saying it is wrong for one to chase one's dream, however as a rational being our actions needs to have a ground of sound logic beneath them. Sachin is not Sachin only because he loved to play cricket, he is what he is because of his talent, discipline, perseverance, sheer hard work, suitable guidance and let's admit it, a fair amount of luck as well.
So here is my advice to all of these cool people out there (entitled enough to give cool speeches), yes we need to do something we love doing, yes that would be the best way to succeed, yes it will bring us the true happiness that everyone yearns for and yes it would be the coolest thing to happen in life. But give us some credit, we had thought about it, even tried a little bit. First of all it was difficult to decide on one thing we love enough to sacrifice the ordinary pleasure / stability in our life, for a lot of us, the choice was between a good life or bad life (only in very materialistic terms, never had the luxury of thinking about spritual satisfaction ). Our worries were our parents' aspirations, our own financial stability in life (we don't get unemployment allowance as big as a decent salary in India, Oh..sorry we don't get any at all) and most of all to provide for our families and also have access to things which give us pleasure / satisfaction. Hence given our considerations (numerous as they were), we chose to pick a job / career which will pay enough to ensure that I can buy inspirational books about people who can given cool speeches after I have taken care of our basic needs. We know it is not our calling or destiny or whatever you cool people call it, but it works for us. It gives me time & money to appreciate the music I so love, the hobbies I wanna pursue, to take care of my loved ones and at the same time do something which I love doing. At the end of day, I choose to work because it can help me to do a lot of things I wanna do.
Who said works needs to be the whole and soul of who I am ? I am much more. I always was and I always will be.
