As I promised to discuss what about what my passion or what
I discovered myself.. But instead of making it is all about me , let me give
you a context I want to drive towards why we need to discover our internal
passion and groom it.
We all social conditioned from the day we are born and
society tries to fix you with in the social system as like a robot. Finish education, get in to a
carrier/job/business with in the options presented (not necessary a choice
based on interest or passion but simply pick best with in what available to
us), get married, have kids, worry about parenting them and their education,
and fix them in same social system. Thru the process people become robots with
in the norms of social conditioning. Even people break the social norms only to
certain elements but still get back in to the same social structure. But societies are not evolved about managing
or enriching the retirement and satisfying/fulfilling end of life scenarios
Here are few practical scenarios:
One of my uncle (Subba rao) retired from a govt. employment,
kids all settled either abroad are away from their home town. He was high
energy and carrier focus while working. Also kept himself physically fit too,
but once he retired he lost all his focus and became week. It’s all cribbing
with not having kids attention and felt world betrayed him. Life became so tasteless and could not
survive life after retirement.
Another of my uncle (Srinivas) also an employee who had four
kids. He is determined to provide best life for kids and put all other things
as secondary. His single most goal is to make kids educated and settle them in
life. So worked overtime to get money, converted vacation allowances to cash to
run the family to get kids do their engineering, masters in
comfort/luxury. By the time retirement
came he is so drained and at sixty had heart attack and in ICU for a month
seeing kids only thru glass windows before passed away. Is this is all life all
about?
Another uncle (Rajaram) who is also retired and had
comfortable life living with wife, despite kids are far away. As he had few
friends around. Once his wife passed away, he could not live more than six
months It is because his love for wife, but does not know a life without her
for most of his life. He could not survive the vacuum that his wife left.
In all these scenarios the constant theme is we are social
conditioned to live one way of taking care of family/kids. It is all about
responsibilities of family which never left any scope to think about “I” or
myself. Even at times it comes it pushed off by other pressing things (Not sure
all of them are that important in grand scheme of things).Are we robots who’s
only aim is to build next generation robots to put to work?. But we are not
robots for sure, we have passion and internal drive to satisfy our soul. There
are some things we do will make our souls happy, that burning passion or
callings of soul is what I call “Vital
Signs” of a person. The reason I call it
vital signs because that’s what drive your soul to look for its happiness. If
we keep these “Vital signs” going in us
,we could have extended fulfilling life till the end.
How do you know what is your vital signs is a tricky thing,
with the social conditioning and social norms we got in to a routine and start
trying to find happiness in itself. The religion, culture, society all says
that’s the life. So try to come out of
those norms and look what makes you happy beyond all these boundaries. Try explore
the things you loved in the past but gave up.
If you love drawing in the past, try to spend few hours a week to draw
something creative and see it makes you feel energized and get you feel good.
Or it is traveling and meeting new people, hiking a trail, doing wood work
(Lots of westerners got this as hobby in their garage to build something in
their old age), writing poetry, working on a social cause. Follow your soul and
heart , identify what is your inner “Callings” and try to spend few hours a
week on it every week so that becomes part of routine where you spend time for
yourself to satisfy your soul.
So by this time you realized my inner calling is .. I love
to write on human psychology and improve my perspective of world and help
others to extend their perspectives.
Re-learn human civilization
without the boundaries of religion, nationality and all other isam’s.
Understand and write about human
evaluation (Not physical but emotional
and thought ).
Hope this is informative to you all and like to know more
about your Vital signs… I appreciate your feedback…
Comments
Post a Comment