I love watching movies in theaters.... I love to go for movies after office's hours on week days ... For a change, I took 3 week break and visited here and there and thus missed couple of movies... Yet to see "Avatar”... (Yup .. I know it is directed by my favorite director :-().. Any way.. , I managed to see " 3 idiots" last week with all 6 tickets and dinner sponsored by me....
I liked the movie ...Can see it one more time (Specially for Ladakh pics and songs ) .. It is good movie but it is hard to imagine that it has done such a grand business of 350 crore till now and is on its way for becoming all time Bollywood hit . Movie has no special effects and shot entirely in India :)…My friend gave an analogy ..."What ever Apple launches, it shakes the world ... Similarly, whichever movie has association with Aamir , it shakes the India... People some time become crazy for Apple and Aamir" ...Nice analogy… Good Job Zach !! ..
Movie has a dialogue in which Aamir suggests his friends to "FOLLOW YOUR PASSION" ... I have heard this advice many time and given to couple of people ... I guess same case with most of readers ...( This guess work reminds me to see latest movie Sherlock Holmes also :-) ) .. Giving this advice to someone who is struggling to find what to do with his life is easy... However, this advice is too simplistic and misleading... ......Hey ... Wait ... I am huge fan of passion and believe passion is internal force to drive one... But Passion is certainly not enough to start a career.
Passions are just a starting point ... One must also know about one’s talent and how external world values them..... One may have passion for something but one may not be good at it. So it may turn out a bad decision to choose that passion as profession.... e.g. Big B may sing in couple of movies but he will never take singing as profession and leave out acting...
Taking this it one step further, one may have passion for something and also has developed skill set for that passion ...but that passion does not have returns. This return could be in terms of money, recognizability or keeping one and loved one happy ....Pursing career in that passion with no returns can be frustrating in long run...
I have an example ... In my school; I got a class mate whose father was skillful painter. I used to visit my friend's home and his father used to give me sketching tips. My friend's father had a passion for his work but I could feel tension in his home for economic reasons and later he started becoming uninterested ... Certainly, market for paintings was small and he was paying price for choosing wrong career …
So, one need to decide whether one should pursue one’s passion as CAREER or as HOBBY.....
One need to look for intersection point where one’s passion, talent and market meets..... If one is able to found that sweet point then one will not believe that people pay one for job :) .. Job will not be only a financial resource but also a place where one like to go next day ...All hard work in job will be internally driven rather than externally driven ....... Finding this intersection point is not easy and requires keep experimenting.... trying lot of different alternatives and ready to read the messages from the world and inner self.........
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I agree vikrant . emotions such as passion and love, they only make sense when your basic needs are met. But once they are .. and your basic needs are secure ... passion is what keeps you going forward .. from not doing pointless things in life...
Human beings always want more in life .. while most of the times it is important to be passionate about whatever you do ...( makes life simple and happy ).. in the rarest of moments .. their comes a time where u need to do it the other way around .. follow ur passion .. and when u kill that .. everything seems mundane and
pointless .. you wish u had gone for it with all u've got .. its a tricky thing I must say :) ..
- Sumita
Nice points ... Mundane and pointless life is absolutely true
Everyone in their life come across this tricky cross road where one need to choose between road of passion and road of compromise ...
Good thing about road of passion is even if you fail you know that you listened your heart and your obsession .... Bad thing about road of compromise is that even if you succeed than also you think in your idle time what would I had taken other road ..... But it is only one part of story ... In long run , both roads have positives and negatives , depending on where the road takes you at end...one need to make a choice ...
May be finding the intersection point of passion , talent and market can help in making right choice ...
Remember , passion may also need little bit regular tuning as it may depends on age or future family bindings or dependency on other factors.
May be tweaking little bit passion , talent and market and looking for alternatives may lead to final goal of finding a role in the world tht doesn't feel like work...
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