Nowhere man
He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Nowhere man is, primarily, a song by the The Beatles and 'isn't he a bit like you and me'? Of course, we chase our sales targets, write that complicated code, write a brilliant article and conduct that huge successful event. Every single day we are in a rush to finish the tasks assigned to us and the laptop lid closes only when your eyes do. No, I am not preaching about the importance of slowing down again, you will know when you need to slowdown :)
Today morning, as I was going through the tasks list for the day, I thought of figuring out where am I heading with my life. To be precise, it is more of an analysis on how am I faring on a scale of me 2008 to me 2012. I must admit that it was a little scary and disappointing at the same time. I am not positively (or negatively) aggressive about my life goals any more, I am just waiting for them to happen.
Continuing with the song:
He's as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Waiting for things to happen is like making a theory out of some random hypothesis, even without a research synopsis. I think that some of us see just what we want to see. We turn our face or close our eyes from the everything else, good or bad. In other words, we like to remain in our (air) conditioned comfort zones.
I know that it's tough to move out and explore the possibilities outside the comfort zone because of mental, financial, physical or social reasons. In such cases, though it takes some time to reach where we want to be, consistently moving forward is mandatory. For me, to feel alive it's important to look out the glasses of comfort zone and promise myself that someday I'll be 'somewhere'.
Define 'somewhere', if you have not yet and more importantly, take at least a step towards your 'somewhere', everyday.
Nowhere Man please listen,
you don't know what you're missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!
Image: Joe Shlabotnik's photostream on Flickr
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
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| Miss the bus to nowhere.. |
Nowhere man is, primarily, a song by the The Beatles and 'isn't he a bit like you and me'? Of course, we chase our sales targets, write that complicated code, write a brilliant article and conduct that huge successful event. Every single day we are in a rush to finish the tasks assigned to us and the laptop lid closes only when your eyes do. No, I am not preaching about the importance of slowing down again, you will know when you need to slowdown :)
Today morning, as I was going through the tasks list for the day, I thought of figuring out where am I heading with my life. To be precise, it is more of an analysis on how am I faring on a scale of me 2008 to me 2012. I must admit that it was a little scary and disappointing at the same time. I am not positively (or negatively) aggressive about my life goals any more, I am just waiting for them to happen.
Continuing with the song:
He's as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Waiting for things to happen is like making a theory out of some random hypothesis, even without a research synopsis. I think that some of us see just what we want to see. We turn our face or close our eyes from the everything else, good or bad. In other words, we like to remain in our (air) conditioned comfort zones.
I know that it's tough to move out and explore the possibilities outside the comfort zone because of mental, financial, physical or social reasons. In such cases, though it takes some time to reach where we want to be, consistently moving forward is mandatory. For me, to feel alive it's important to look out the glasses of comfort zone and promise myself that someday I'll be 'somewhere'.
Define 'somewhere', if you have not yet and more importantly, take at least a step towards your 'somewhere', everyday.
Nowhere Man please listen,
you don't know what you're missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!
Image: Joe Shlabotnik's photostream on Flickr
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