Driving Towards Happiness
I just watched Riding In Cars With Boys and saw everything I don't want my life to be. She was everything I am, and she got everything I don't want. And even the end didn't redeem her.
I wonder, as I imagine that perfectly planned life that I wish to lead, what the 'issue' will be that will bring all of it crashing down. For Beverly it was the unexpected arrival of her son. I've learnt that nothing goes according to the way we plan. So I wonder that when the 'issue' does arise, will I bounce back, will I be able to adapt or will I crash and burn as Beverly did.
I learn every day in Business class, that as potential managers, we have to learn to be dynamic, and not static. But if you look closely, you see that one thing will always remain the same - our desire to be happy. Everything that we do in our life boils down to this one emotion, this one objective. Only the path that we take to attain this differs - some utterly misguided and some knowing exactly where they are going. And I mean this in a much larger sense than the cliché 'Where do you see yourself in ten years?' It is much larger than what career path you are going to undertake or which university you study in or whether you wear Gucci or Prada or whether you live in the largest apartment in the most expensive part of town. It is so much bigger than that. And yet, paradoxically, it is so small and so simple.
It comes back to that simple moment, before you lay yourself to rest at the end of each day. That moment where your heart is warm and your mind at peace, when you can say to yourself 'I am happy' and believe that what you are saying is the truth.
I wonder, as I imagine that perfectly planned life that I wish to lead, what the 'issue' will be that will bring all of it crashing down. For Beverly it was the unexpected arrival of her son. I've learnt that nothing goes according to the way we plan. So I wonder that when the 'issue' does arise, will I bounce back, will I be able to adapt or will I crash and burn as Beverly did.
I learn every day in Business class, that as potential managers, we have to learn to be dynamic, and not static. But if you look closely, you see that one thing will always remain the same - our desire to be happy. Everything that we do in our life boils down to this one emotion, this one objective. Only the path that we take to attain this differs - some utterly misguided and some knowing exactly where they are going. And I mean this in a much larger sense than the cliché 'Where do you see yourself in ten years?' It is much larger than what career path you are going to undertake or which university you study in or whether you wear Gucci or Prada or whether you live in the largest apartment in the most expensive part of town. It is so much bigger than that. And yet, paradoxically, it is so small and so simple.
It comes back to that simple moment, before you lay yourself to rest at the end of each day. That moment where your heart is warm and your mind at peace, when you can say to yourself 'I am happy' and believe that what you are saying is the truth.
posted by Melanie at 11:41 PM
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