It happened out of the blue. It
was a promotion that was long due I was told by my skip level manager. I
had been expecting it for over a year now. But as luck would have it, it didn't
until now. I did well, I knew. Three awards. A missed opportunity of being in
my dream company. A missed promotion. A roller coaster ride, it's been for
the last year and a half. And now, finally it was happening. Unlike what I had
imagined, I wasn't neither happy nor excited. It was just a sense of
relief... While I wondered at my lack of happiness, I felt a sense of
satisfaction for the acknowledgement I received for my efforts. But that was
it. I realized that getting something doesn't make us as happy, as not getting
the same thing saddens us. While we waste countless moments fretting over
things that didn't happen or have the remotest chance of happening, we miss
countless moments when we could have been happier not worrying about them in
the first place.
Do we realize that things that
actually make us happy are quite different from what we have or want to
achieve, what makes us happy and what simply adds to our satisfaction?
I.Wish - isn't that what drives all of us? All of us have a wishlist - big or
small, grand or humble - all of us do. We sacrifice, we toil, we compromise -
just to see that wish coming true. But at the end, does it always taste as
sweet as we imagined it to be? That's something we should sit down and ponder.
Sit back and prioritize!
3 comments:
nice article...loved it!
It will always taste as sweet ( if not sweeter) if the circumstances under which the wish was made remains the same ( if not better). Also, I would deviate a lill from your view "wish drives us all"...I think wish is a like a dream and its the HOPE of the dream coming true which keeps us going.
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