The 3 Lines of Life

I was thinking about what are all the 3 important times in our life. 1st part of your life you are called as student, 2nd part of you are called as employee/employer and 3rd part as old man/woman. I am going to draw 3 lines what we have to really think about.

Ø Education - So called as qualification of yours

Ø Work – What you do for living.

ü Passion – What is deep in your mind?

Education is mostly influenced by your parents and your capabilities. If your parents had a passion to be a Doctor and they didn’t become one because of their parent's ignorance or because of some situation. So their passion becomes an unfulfilled dream which is influenced to you. So any person's education is not in his hands unless he realizes his capabilities and has a freedom to make his decision.

Work place is where we use our education. Do we use our educational knowledge at our work place? First of all, do we go to a job that is related to your education? I am seeing B.Com in marketing, BA literature in computers, BE mechanical in computers, BE Computers doing business. But there are few professions that can be done only if you complete related qualification. Example Doctor, lawyers. Only very few end up in the job where they use their educational knowledge. Do they have passion for their job or are they doing it just for the sake of earning money?

Do you know what the 3rd line is, PASSION. If you want to know what your passion is, ask yourself the question that we generally ask a kid. What do you want to become in life? I believe there are only very few people who say their work is their passion. Why do we end up in doing something that we don’t like? May be for living, may be time, may be ignorance or may be laziness. If we align all this 3 lines (Education work and passion) together we can go ahead in our life without looking back with regrets. Only if your passion becomes your work, you will say TGIM (Thank God It’s Monday). If you open your eyes wide and list the people “who do things”, their work will be their passion. It is very rare to see all the 3 lines together. May be if you have a kid, you can try to raise kid in this way where all the 3 lines join “Education” “Work” and “Passion”. Never force your passion, but you can always help them identify their passion. So what happens to the grownup ones? Whose 3 lines are in 3 different angles? At least we have to make our passion as our hobby. Keep reading and keep your knowledge update on your passionate area. Life will be more interesting when you do something that you like. Don’t mis-understand this and say at the age of 40, cricket is your passion, leave job and go play cricket all day (May be if you are wealthy enough you can do that J ). Join a cricket club and play cricket during weekends, Just stay in touch. Hope your lives will be interesting from now on …

Chase your passion and fight to keep them alive.