Dec 28, 2007

The Endless Mirage

I got the inspiration of writing on this topic from one of my friends while chatting with him. This is not only story of mine, but I guess, of almost everyone in todays fast pace world. Let me start with childhood.
A normal child having dream of coming first in class. Sometimes his dream was fulfilled, sometimes not. But he used to keep on sticking to dream and kept on chasing it. Slowly the childhood ended and he started dreaming of becoming an engineer and get into a good engineering college. He worked hard for it and finally the day came when he fulfilled his that dream also. One more dream achieved but another began. Life in college was fun but he wanted to enter into IT world. God again listened to him and one day he got job into a very good IT company. Life seems to be complete for him that day. One more dream achieved but another began to take shape. Then one day he joined that IT company with a good starting salary. It was too good for him at that time. He was happy and contended with it. He kept on working hard and with passing time, he wanted more and more of everything – salary, work, time, freedom and what not. One more dream achieved but more began to take shape.

He is achieving all of them slowly and steadily but each time he thinks he has reached the end of mirage, he found again a new one posing another challenge. That is what is keeping him going, keeping him alive. His endless ambitions, newer posing challenges everyday is keeping life worth living. That is the endless mirage of everyone behind which we are all running.

It’s good to follow it, but in the race of getting it, we should not forget what we have today because whatever we have today is something which we wanted long back. So make sure to enjoy it, to value it. It’s good to have goals but in the rat-race of achieving them we should not forget to enjoy the present. The mirage will never end; you will always keep moving towards your destination till the last second of your life but make sure you enjoy the journey too.

Because in the end, what you treasure should not only be the destination but the journey too.

Ok, lots of mirage still to be captured. Hence ending here. :)

~Mayank