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07 Jan 2009, 21:11
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I have posted this note before and thought I should post this again this year.
https://tuck06.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_archive.html
'Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are travelling by train. Out the windows we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn, and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.
But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour we will pull into the Station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we get there so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, daming the minutes for loitering - waiting, waiting, waiting for the Station.
"When we reach the Station, that will be it!" we cry. "When I'm eighteen." "When I buy a new 450 SL Mercedes Benz!" "When I put the last kid through college." "When I have paid off the mortgage!" "When I get a promotion!" "When I reach retirement, I shall live happily ever after!"
Sooner or later we must realize there is no Station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The Station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.
So, stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. The Station will come soon enough.'
https://tuck06.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_archive.html
'Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are travelling by train. Out the windows we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn, and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.
But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour we will pull into the Station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we get there so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, daming the minutes for loitering - waiting, waiting, waiting for the Station.
"When we reach the Station, that will be it!" we cry. "When I'm eighteen." "When I buy a new 450 SL Mercedes Benz!" "When I put the last kid through college." "When I have paid off the mortgage!" "When I get a promotion!" "When I reach retirement, I shall live happily ever after!"
Sooner or later we must realize there is no Station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The Station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.
So, stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. The Station will come soon enough.'
07 Jan 2009, 21:48
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fantastic post!!! Something we all need to think about.
07 Jan 2009, 22:01
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Praetorian
This is very true. I've always knew this fact...it's been hiding somewhere inside my thoughts for a long long time. I think we all heard this advice before. But like all good advices that we hear in our lifetime, we choose to ignore them and move forward. (until we get burned and forced back down to earth...)
It's sort of like touching the flames for the very first time. Someone will warn you that flames are hot. They will tell you that flames are dangerous. But out of curiosity (and inexperience), we touch the flames anyway. I am sure we all burned ourselves at least once in our lifetime. And only after that experience, we decided to keep our hands away from the flames.
During the past few months (while we were debating what business school can do for our future), many of us might have realized that we haven't done a single thing that we've always wanted to do.
In highschool, I chose to attend my alma mater due to its amazing arts program. I even had a portfolio for the arts program ready. I always wanted to be an artist back when I was a boy. Sketching, painting, and other forms of drawings fill up the walls of my room at my parents house. They are the works I've completed when I was much younger. But I stopped completing art works around the time I was ready for college. Somewhere along the way, financial security (aka job) became more important to me.
But by the time I arrived on campus in the autumn of my freshmen year, I ended up in the undergraduate business school. After witnessing former art major students selling paintings on the streets of school campus (after graduation and without work), I folded my dreams and dedicated myself to scoring a great job after the graduation.
Everything I've done in my life since then, was motivated by career progression. "Sacrifice your life now and you will reap the benefits tomorrow.." This was what i told myself everyday. As a side-effect, I can't remember a single course in college that I took out of pure curiosity. Courses were chosen based on the question, "What classes do I need to take to get myself ready for a professional career?" As a result, I voluntarily suppressed a part of me and created a new shell for myself.
After reading Praet's post above, I realized that I might make the same mistake again with my MBA. For a lot of us, MBA was always about endless possibilities, and dreams. It was about how the degree can dramatically change our lives professionally and financially.
This dream still isn't a wrong one. In fact, that's what MBA promises to a lot of people. It's a huge investment that we have to make and why shouldn't we expect a huge return? But for me personally, I realized that I should live my life right now as if I am living a dream. I should live as if I've already completed my bschool journey. Because I can't predict how my life will change few years from now. Who knows? I might even miss the simplicity of the way my life is right now.
"Sooner or later we must realize there is no Station..." That's a great advice. We should start living our life as if we've already arrived at our "station" - starting right now.
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