In the midst of growing intolerance of leftist towards rightist, rightist towards leftist, east towards west and west towards east, i have encountered a small glimpse of intolerance in my friends and well-wishers towards me and my plans. To my wonder, am not right or left, not east or west. Am standing right in the middle of our society, struggling to understand the meaning and purpose of my life. In the process, i realized i have some capability in me to follow my dreams and make it a reality. But the path is not easy one. You will need to accept and work many ups and downs in the graph. You will need to bare many kinds of emotions. You will need to answer questions from people. People have become impatient. They expect you to show results in very short period of time. If you are not able to show results early, then you will be tagged as misfired. You should gain courage to accept the defeat if there is one and rebounce with revisited tactics and statistics. Biggest challenge of all this is to face and clarify false and misinterpreted stories floated on you.You can either ignore and continue your travel. Or you pay heed to these stories and get annoyed and agitated, which will eventually put a break to your pace of achieving your dreams. You go back to your old life and continue to be unhappy.
I have had numerous discussions on my decision to quit my job and follow my long pending passion towards writing. The very first question that i would be entitled to answer is "Why can't you stay in your regular job which is the source for your bread and butter and continue writing in your free time?". I understand concerns of people who dared to pose this question to me. They are worried and truly concerned. I don't blame them for their fear for failure. We have to blame ourselves for creating one such society filled with enormous amount of negativity. If you read news papers, watch TV news channels or just sit and listen to your friends, you will understand what am trying to tell you. All you get to see and listen is cynical waves towards every sob story under the sun, which will manipulate you to stay pessimistic. There are millions of vehicles who commute and reach destinations safely, but we get to read about very minimal number of vehicles who met with brutal accidents. Fear fills in you when you drive. Millions of girls who are living a happy and safe life, but we get to see few unfortunate and condemnable rape stories. More fear fills in you when you let your girls out. Billions of people from different caste, religion, color and gender, who are living life with perfect harmony and respect towards each other, but we get to read few stray incidents which are projected as dangerous intolerance between communities. More worries fills in you towards future of your kids. There are millions of couples who are living happy and prosperous life together, but we take to highlight few incidents of breakups and divorces. More fear fills in you towards relationships and commitments. There are millions of people who made valiant effort and succeeded to achieve in their passion, but we get to take those examples of people who tried and failed to do so. More discourage thrown on you.
Coming back to my story, i am one among such guys who can sit and enjoy with minimum needs like roti, kapada aur makhan. Am one who can switch off my mobile and
stay out of social media for months but still stay connected with my dear ones without any hiccups. I don't want to keep working and earn to accumulate excess wealth which am never gonna be able to enjoy. I don't have any plans of passing on the properties we possess to our kids. And i have earned enough to cover basic needs of my family such as food, shelter, health and education. Then what should stop me from leaving my current job and focus on what i want to achieve. Passion can never be a part-time task. But hobbies are part-time. Most of the times people fail to understand this. Majority of the failures will fall into below categories.
1) We fail when we misunderstand our hobbies as our passion and risk everything to gain success in it. Over the period of time, we will start understanding the truth and accept the failure and get back to what we were doing.
2) Sometimes we categerise our passion as just an hobby and won't be putting honest efforts to acheive what we want to. Lack of planning is also a reason.
If you are capable to clearly distinguish between your hobbies and passion and have strong belief in your passion and if you are ready to take everything with you to work towards making your dreams a reality, then i don't see any issues in doing so. I wish all of you who follow your passion to gain success in whatever you want to achieve and I wish you will set an example for generations to come.
Good Luck.
With Love,
RaDa
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