Oct 2

Boring holiday- quite unusual given that people look forward to holidays. And I too look forward to them but today’s holiday was unusually boring. Many reasons to it. One of them was because my dear husband Abhi did not have a holiday. Hence I was the only one holidaying which actually did not turn out to be a holiday at all.

We have holidays so that we can spend time with each other and with ourselves. As of each other, my ‘other’ was busy working for others! And spending time with myself.. ummmm … i think I got bugged with myself today. As such I am an interesting personality but today I turned to be boring. And moreover, I am turning a workaholic with each passing day. My love for work feeds on itself. I think the worst punishment one can pronounce upon me is to do NOTHING all day. Procrastinating is okay for a while but if it continues it gets on my nervous system.

Now this brings me to think about all those people who actually do nothing all day. How impossible would that be! And yes, I do know a handful of such people. Most of them are nouveau riche due to sudden rise in the value of their land (farms owned by their family) as a result of the expanding city. They suddenly have more than enough money to dispense and hence they really do not know what to do with it. They tend to move from here to there all day killing time and killing life. At times I envy them that they have been gifted so much for almost nothing. But then on days like these I pity them. I really really do. Poor them with all that money they still do not have a sense of fulfillment. How sad is that! And trust me you need that sense. You just can’t keep doing something that makes you feel no good. It is degenerating your personality.

Another such fellow is one of my in-laws. A smart, young, intelligent 20ish fellow who just can’t find anything to do. Academics was never his cup of tea and his ego doesn’t permit him to take up a job. He waits for business opportunity to knock his door. Till then he warms the sofa and surveys all the channels on the Television all day!

So, all you so-called-lucky people who get rewards without working your butt out, all I’ve got to say is- Enjoy. For I cannot. And I would not. I would rather work my way up, however hard and long it be. For if I don’t do that, what do I do? Sit back and rot? Degenerate myself into something I would not recognize? Loathe my existence and curse my life? No. You see stagnation is not a choice available to humans. We either evolve or expire. I choose to evolve.

What do you choose? Have you faced such boring holidays when you wished that work was better? Do let me know.

[I had completed the post and then I came across this. This is an excerpt from an essay The Organization Kid by David Brooks. It is about his chance to interact with students of an Ivy League college.

"nowhere did I find any real unhappiness with this state of affairs; nowhere did I find anybody who seriously considered living any other way. These super-accomplished kids aren't working so hard because they are compelled to. It's not the stick that drives them on, it's the carrot. Opportunity lures them. And at a place like Princeton, in a rich information-age country like America, promises of enjoyable work abound—at least for people as smart and ambitious as these. "I want to be this busy," one young woman insisted, after she had described a daily schedule that would count as slave-driving if it were imposed on anyone."

Hurray! I am not the only one who likes to be busy!!;) ]

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