Journey so far...

It's been little more than a year since I started this blog. I started off at a time when I had nothing much to do. I had completed my University education and was presumably preparing for a national- level examination ( the most dreaded UGC- NET!)

It was one of those days when I found desperation and hopelessness seeping into me, that I decided to write. Blogging gave me a platform to experiment and play with my thoughts. Soon, I had something to look forward to. A travel or a journey completed its course only when I wrote about it. Blogging inspired me to move around and notice the unnoticed. I no more looked for destinations, but tried as much as I could to soak in memories. So that I could wrap them and put it all up on the Maple Leaf.

 I turn to some of my posts when I feel lost. Not with any hope of expecting them to lift me up, but to visit my past selves. To kindle lost joys and to think about how far the journey has gone.

There was a particular stage when I didn't exactly know what I should be doing with my life. I had no clue where my life was heading to. I had too many dreams, but all of it seemed so unreal and dramatic that I didn't waste much time brooding over it. I told myself : "Life is uncertain and everybody goes through such a phase. It's just NORMAL!"  It gave me the much needed respite. I was feeling better for a while. Then I came across people who encouraged me to follow my heart and passion. "You should turn your passion into your career and that way you'll love the work you do, and you'd forget that you are doing any 'work'!.
Listening to all of this, I was confused. I tossed and turned on my bed thinking about my passions and interests. After days of brain- wracking, I couldn't think of any 'particular' passion that could be turned into a career.

So, does that mean that my life is doomed or I'll be jobless or unhappy the rest of my life???
CERTAINLY NOT! :)

I didn't let my spirits down. I decided to go with something that a teacher had once told:
'Sometimes you have to create a passion for what you have chosen.'

And that's exactly what I did.
I tried to love what I had chosen. I put in some conscious effort. And I waited for the magic to work.

Now when I look back, I'm grateful to myself for not having given up. I feel happy that I tried and lived through disappointments and failures with a hopeful heart and a smile on my face. I'm glad that I waited.
While it's good to dabble, it's also important to stay focused and build expertise in the field that you have chosen. Those passions ( that were dismissed as trivial) could be nurtured in the mean while, and even developed. Who Knows! One day you might even turn it into a career :)