If wishes were horses

I don’t know if you’ve read it (I haven’t :-p ), but there is a book called ‘the seven habits of highly effective people’. Now you get why I haven’t yet read it, and quite frankly don’t intend to read it in the near future. Anyhoo, we had a “training” session in the office the other day that was supposedly related to the book. (Excuse the ambiguity, but like I said, I haven’t read the book) and while like all eight-freaking-hour-long sessions are, it did get a bit boring, but it did hit a few sore points. Well the session was about work-life balance and the moral of the story was that if your life is a routine of work-eat-sleep for the majority of your time, your life is monotonous, it sucks, you could go into depression and die... or something along those lines. Honestly, if you want to really know about it, attend such a session yourself and/or read the book.

So it got me thinking, what can I change in my life to make it interesting, exciting, meaningful and certain other adjectives that make life look cooler, what would I do? The answer came right back... not much, nah, I’m good.

However, there comes in the power of imagination, if you don’t know Calvin, you probably don’t understand this power, and I can’t help you. But if you do, read on. Now in my imagination I do not have a shortage of any sort of resources, I live in an ideal world; the world is my oyster, the only restrictions I face are ones I decide I want. And once I got to this world, the options just never stopped. While there were many, many crazy ideas I had, a few really stood out. In random order as they come to me now –

1. Get a vehicle that is road trip ideal- I’m imagining a Tata Xenon, but something more along the lines of a Ford Endeavour would be better. Now this vehicle as mentioned before would be my ideal (and I would prefer only) companion on weekend trips that I intend to take at least 3 times a month. The idea of ‘discovering’ India has always appealed to me, and with weekend trips I can at least discover my state if not the country. I do at some point in life intend to take time off, if not quit my job, and do go roaming for longer than just a weekend
2. Get a really good camera, think the Nikon D300, which would help me keep memories of these trips. I think nature offers the best ‘models’ for shooting pictures. Honestly what is more brilliant that a sunset at a beach?
3. Be my own band, which involves learning to sing, play the guitar and drums. I’m not too crazy about keyboards. Nothing is as therapeutic as music, and it isn’t always enough to just listen to it.
4. Seriously consider an alternative career option. For as far as I can remember I’ve either wanted to be a teacher or to write. I think I would suck at teaching, noble as the job is, but I don’t think I suck at writing, and even if I do, I wouldn’t be ruining someone else’s life doing it. Writing does not mean an author, more like a journalist but without it being a ‘job’.
5. Work with an adoption agency and help build more families. What’s better than actually getting to pick your child/parents? And sponsor at least a few kids' education because it is what is most important to a child’s development.

A few things on a lighter mode:

1. Go crazy with adventure sports- bungee jumping, sky diving, rafting, rappelling, you name it, and I’ll do it.
2. Get soooooo sloshed I don’t know anything at all.
3. Go tell some people what I really think of them (I know you think I already do that, but you don’t know what I’m hiding and it could be about you.. HA HA HA)
4. Go public about my superpowers- as in public public.
5. If I have to ever get married, elope and be on the run always.
6. Believe in ‘forever’.

And finaly, just for kicks, and I don’t know if its serious or not, jump off a high-rise J

What a way to go, huh?