Tuesday, January 15, 2008

CONFUSED

Its been quite sometime I have been wanting to do "SOMETHING" which is different; different from what i do in normal day to day life. My main motive being to get rid of the stereotyped way of living life.

I enjoyed my college life to the fullest and came to bangalore with renewed vigour, pumped up enthusiasm, new ideas and lots of plans in my mind. I had sort of fantasized that job life would be a lot different and to make it interesting I will have to add the extra bit of spice and walk the extra mile.

Life here started with lots of excitement; New place , new job, new lifestyle; everything was new and so very different. I was earning, enjoying the freedom which I had just found and simultaneously thinking of ways to utilize my leisure time for some useful and productive work. To cut a long story short "Add Value to my Life".

For the first couple of months everything was new and exciting, but as time progressed life became pretty much like a computer program which goes into an infinite loop. After having exploring the "interesting" places of bangalore, having seen all the overpriced and uninteresting movies every weekend, having visited all the pubs I didnt find anything else worthwhile to do....and my huge appetite made me into a glutton and in the process i started becoming obese.

I was slowly becoming a lazy goose; in fact an obese and lazy goose. It was high time I did something different to please myself, so that every night before going to sleep when I would reflect upon what i had done that day.....I would always have something valuable to tell my conscience.

So I decided to start off by doing what I really like. Since childhood I always wanted to learn a professional dance style. I decided to make this dream come true and started off by joining dance classes and learning the Latin style. I intentionally took the weekday classes to keep my weekends free and believe me life became different. It was not only a dream come true, it actually acted as a stress buster. There have been inumerous times when I came back from the office in a wild and sour mood, but that one hour of foot-tapping swung ur mood by 180 degrees.

Now after having engaged my weekdays; I find that weekends are still free and that is the time when often I find myself going out and doing something which is not stereotype. And herein comes the confusion. Right now on pondering upon what to do I find most of the things are restricted to staying back at home and utilizing your time; not by staring at the "idiot-box", but say by grabbing a book, writing a blog, sketching or maybe sleeping. That sure makes me relaxed and through books and articles I can see the world in a nutshell. "But I want to do something different ! " - this is the same thing that I keep on hearing in the back of my mind and i am yet to figure out "WHAT !!!".