2020. Just that. Not meaning to open on a fairly negative note, but if we survive this year, we’d remember this more than ever, more than anything that ever happened in our lives.
Countless references have already been made, maybe more than that is the depressing nonsense, the exaggeration by media, the foolishness manifested everywhere from educated people, gullible illiterate people to world leaders. Now, at this point, maybe it is wrong to hope and expect anything from anyone. Maybe the one forte that’s on constant display is the common sense, or the lack of it.
With the number of motivational speakers, content creators (or other fancy jargon that you may use as you please - really, come up with anything that can help you stand out) and other folks who are trying to keep the world inspired and positive, maybe they are doing a good job. Maybe because I have never believed in that crap. The true inspiration lies in the eyes of the person who’s seeking it. Not someone who’s posting videos everyday about how his or her life has changed and how they want to make a difference in your life. Like the rule of the nature is, ‘Look, don’t see. You’ll find what you want’. But if people are trying to make a living of this, well, who am I to stop. They can, because there are people who are creating a demand for them.
There’s one thing I needed to talk about related to this. While there are innumerable people trying to motivate people and share their success story, there is this incredible urge to glorify failure. While I get the point that they are trying to make things more relatable to the real world, its not really a positive thing now, is it? Just because something works or worked with you doesn’t create a rule book for what the rest of the world has to follow. There are people with clarity about their career from school days. Then there are people who keep switching till they find peace. There are also people who surrender and make peace with what they have. Like I’ve always told before, success is very relative. What is success to me isn’t success to you. But then again, I really can’t advocate anything to anyone at this point of time. It’s kinda useless.
What 2020 has taught us is probably reinforce the age old saying - Live for the day. Little did we know it would come to mean in the literal sense. All the planning, all the postponing is what took a massive hit. It’s more like wake up, hope that all people dear to you are well and alive and do what you can, with no idea what’s going to hit us next. Like change is the only constant, uncertainty is only certain now.
Countless references have already been made, maybe more than that is the depressing nonsense, the exaggeration by media, the foolishness manifested everywhere from educated people, gullible illiterate people to world leaders. Now, at this point, maybe it is wrong to hope and expect anything from anyone. Maybe the one forte that’s on constant display is the common sense, or the lack of it.
With the number of motivational speakers, content creators (or other fancy jargon that you may use as you please - really, come up with anything that can help you stand out) and other folks who are trying to keep the world inspired and positive, maybe they are doing a good job. Maybe because I have never believed in that crap. The true inspiration lies in the eyes of the person who’s seeking it. Not someone who’s posting videos everyday about how his or her life has changed and how they want to make a difference in your life. Like the rule of the nature is, ‘Look, don’t see. You’ll find what you want’. But if people are trying to make a living of this, well, who am I to stop. They can, because there are people who are creating a demand for them.
There’s one thing I needed to talk about related to this. While there are innumerable people trying to motivate people and share their success story, there is this incredible urge to glorify failure. While I get the point that they are trying to make things more relatable to the real world, its not really a positive thing now, is it? Just because something works or worked with you doesn’t create a rule book for what the rest of the world has to follow. There are people with clarity about their career from school days. Then there are people who keep switching till they find peace. There are also people who surrender and make peace with what they have. Like I’ve always told before, success is very relative. What is success to me isn’t success to you. But then again, I really can’t advocate anything to anyone at this point of time. It’s kinda useless.
What 2020 has taught us is probably reinforce the age old saying - Live for the day. Little did we know it would come to mean in the literal sense. All the planning, all the postponing is what took a massive hit. It’s more like wake up, hope that all people dear to you are well and alive and do what you can, with no idea what’s going to hit us next. Like change is the only constant, uncertainty is only certain now.
