What’s happening in life, dude?

When one is leading an independent life where some where there is deep down, a thought of some achievement- and a confidence emanates which leads to a belief that I need to do more, work harder, earn fatter paychecks….

This would be a story of a typical middle class boy or girl living in a large metro on his own… some of the common characteristics would be routine start of the day, bogged down as soon as one wakes up, getting out of home to beat the traffic to reach office, not to take any calls in the day time “office hour” due to either being busy or making other construe them to be “busy”, calling on friends and folks in the evening, on the way or in a break, struggle for conversation and that starts and ends with pretty much how are you? Kya chal raha hai, lets catch up..

I am one of them, not all but there are very common traits is shared by yours truly. Then what is the reason for me to express. What’s wrong in this lifestyle. Isn’t it cool that one earns more than one want but still want more, time is at a premium, leaves are few and far between- you cancel them thrice before u get one. Work for 70 hours a week as if there is no tomorrow but then also remain unsatisfied with the work. When I look back at life over the past few years, it seems to me so uniform that I wonder if so much time has passed, and actually have no answers as to how I want to lead it going forward. Would love to change a few aspect but not sure that I have the courage to do them.

One day was surfing through one of the professional networking channels and one of the entries was “what are you working on?”. I thought some thing to enter and I could think for a highly complicated project that I was involved in at that point in time. I saw a similar request on a social networking site and had no answers. The irony of the situation brought me to think about the current state of affairs.

When I was in college, saw Dil Chahta Hai- the story of three friends and could relate to them like anything as many of us would do. The one thing that I did realize that I would not be one of the Akash (Aamir Khan in the movie) when and I grow out of college. Would rather be one Siddharth who ends up doing something he loves and he is master of his own destiny.

Recently, saw Rock-on and then reality dawned. A likable movie with very distinct characters and again in the DCH mould but with a different theme. There is so much of Aditya (Farhan Akhtar in the movie) to which one can relate to. Aditya rediscovers his own self in the movie and also his true friends, it remains to be seen how many of us can do the same.

This weekend, saw Bond's new flick Quantum of Solace, and very much liked the movie for its slick screenplay and direction. Not like the typical bond movie but one which kept audiences engaged..

Another weekend gone..