An adventure is an incovenience rightly considered. An inconvenience – an adventure wrongly considered.
- Chesterton, G K
My hard disk got busted today. And along with it,40 gigs of irreplaceable data.
Cogito, Ergo Sum. The world can go to hell for all that I care.
Sometimes, we come across some special moments – epochs which will add all the meaning, reason that you want to make you believe in this wonderful journey called life. They maybe ephemeral, they always are. But those fleeting moments make life worth all its struggle.
Cherish them. Celebrate Life.
Every now and then, there is one question that keeps popping up in my mind. What exactly am I planning to do in my future. This question is more pertinent now, what with all my SOP process and all that. If I look at myself and ask this question “Am I what I wanted to be ?” , the answer is a definite no. But when I ask myself, “What exactly is that I want to do ?”, the answer is an honest “I don’t know”.
I had always wanted to desgin aircrafts. They had always held my fascination ever since my childhood days. That brought me to MIT to learn aeronautical engineering. But my degree was as close I got to designing aircrafts. I have griped enough on this and I don’t want to deviate from the main topic. I have also had this wish to work in India rather than go abroad and settle down there, inspite of the huge number of opportunities that I will get there. And that was one reason I didn’t opt for my GRE in college.
But over the course of time, my decisions changed, my outlook changed, my GRE happened and here I am, sitting and wondering what area of specialisation my Masters should be in, even as I am typing this very post. The options I have are divided between my professional choice and my personal choice.
Should I, like Howard Roark, stand firm in my principles, be that elusive idealist ,hold on to my dreams and walk steadfast in that path less travelled ?
Or should I take a practical approach, do something that will lead me along a path of least resistance, something which will satisfy my wish to work in India after my studies there, somthing which will give me a huge canvas of opportunities to work on.
Or maybe shoud I just follow Hobbes’s advice ?
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