I regularly get ideas from people on how I must live my life.
- A few years back, someone asked me : What are you doing here ? ( Meaning, why can’t you find a better job, suited for you ) Strangely, I just loved my job and the contribution that I used to make, and had and still have no plans to change
- Many former band members have suggested doing more shows and earning name and fame in the music industry. But doing a show for just 3 minutes, didn’t interest me much – I would rather go and play in a park for free or record 100s of songs ( covers and originals included ) and upload it to Youtube
- Recently, as in, a few months back, one of my colleagues was shocked to see that I have not yet subscribed to any particular Swamiji or Guruji. She felt, I was wasting my talent by not following any Guru blindly
In all these cases, people approached with this look on their face, as if I was wasting my life, by NOT making ‘use’ of the skills I was blessed with. What they fail to understand is that, all these skills I had acquired required me putting 100s of hours and that I do have a solid plan as how I must proceed further.
It’s not like, I wake up one morning and realize, I can play guitar and now I don’t know, what I must do and I need people to guide me. I just want to tell them to keep those opinions to themselves, or may be even shove it up their hands. I stay low, because I don’t want to hurt their puffed up ego and ‘superior’ knowledge