all of our lives are like this lady's... with multiple choices laid out in all segments... but many do not know which road to take and always pine "if only i had taken the other road..." -- these are one kind of people, the piners, i call them but what i like about them is the thought of exploring "the other road".
and there are many such piners since it takes all kinds to make this world, but that really is rationalising and i certainly am in no mood to rationalise the varied kinds of people...
i would love to only meet and interact with people who have made clear choices, personal or professional, but that seems a tall wish list, since i constantly keep meeting those who, having taken a call, are not able to handle it, and whine on the way, a sure sign of having taken a decision, not having mulled it in the mind and coming out confused during the journey and after it.
i have known women and men who are diehard professionals, who literally stayed in office (mark that I have not used the word "work") for 12-14 hours a day, travelled 15 days a month, politicked hard to battle all the possible contenders and sat plum on company boards, enjoyed fat salaries and strategised to make their benefits fatter around the coming appraisal. but they seemed happy with the choice they had made -- they had children and families, but they had clearly chosen between professional success and personal happiness and the logic was -- professional success is more important. so all they did was to attain that professional success, held onto it and bettered their control over their own lives and those around them and lo, they came out in flying colours. in a word, they knew what they were doing. so i like them.
what i have never liked and still don't are the confused in-betweens, the quarter-baked professionals... who want all the professional control that the likes i described above have, who also stay in office longer than most, but whine after that on the things they are not able to do otherwise... how do you rationalise these kinds? who will tell them that if you choose one, the other will have to be given up?
afterall success comes for a price and if one is willing to pay that price, success is theirs.
there is always the other road... a little bit of professional success and loads of perceived personal happiness, and the price is "Little Bit of Professional Success"...
do i need to tell you which one i have chosen?
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To this I can only say to each his/her own.there are some who change priorities on the way too.there r some who r so confident of the path chosen,they look down on others who are not too sure.
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