During my adolescence, I was driven to the Engineering career by a friend of my father who began calling me ‘Engineer’. His calling me like this pleased me and I decided to be an Engineer on growing up, and I succeeded. I liked the profession for its scientific approach to problems and opportunities to boost up and utilize creative talent. No doubt, I was successful at this profession and reached the top slot ‘Chief Engineer’ in 10 years of my employment period. I loved the job and my love was duly rewarded.
All along this career, I had a craze for two things which went on pinching me and often coming to surface of my mind – scientific developments and authorship. As a result, I used to think a lot and write a lot in whatever free time I used to have in my highly engaging profession. My scientific involvements, being part of engineering, did not tease me much and got satisfied through my engineering involvements. But my craze for authorship often got strangulated by career ambitions and business of engineering. I even did not probe what to write about.
On getting freedom from financial liabilities of life and career ambitions, I was naturally drawn to authorship since it needed no investment and affiliations, which are needed by scientific development works. In the world of authorship, I got some books published and have written over 1,000 articles online. The most valuable articles of mine are on psychology with derivatives into the arenas of self-improvement and relationships, while I never studied psychology, academically.
Still, there are a few things i would like to do passionately but for lack of resources and time, I have under my command. This field is of researching into ancient scriptures to unfold ancient history of humanity. The presently known history is not acceptable to me, particularly about Indian subcontinent.
You Never Know
My purpose of narrating all these experiences of mine is to come to an understanding that we never know what is the best course of one’s life, and use of capacities and capabilities, unless tried through hits and trials. Such hits and trials are, of course, costly when it comes to having career ambitions and bearing family responsibilities. Recently, with the advent of Internet connectivity on our finger tips, such experimentation in newer fields has become easy and may be tried during leisure time without much affecting ongoing career ambitions and family liabilities.
You never know which one-thing, tried for fun or as a pastime, come to be the premier stake of your life in times to come. So, keep on giving vent to your dreams and passions, repressed by your current involvements, considering them as precious assets of yours. Even if you don’t have much time and other resources for investing into these, keep them alive until a point of time in future when you will be able to pursue them.
Call it a Day
Whatever you do, under circumstantial pressures, career ambitions or even out of ignorance about the best field for you, set a deadline for continuing that and quit that on reaching that point, to become free for your other passions and dreams. In terms of age, any age beyond 50 is the right time when a person must begin moving towards freedom from circumstantial pressures, family responsibilities, career ambitions, etc.
It is not psychologically easy for anybody leaving a thing or engagement for which he/she had been involved for more than 10 years because of the fruits the engagement begins providing after this period without much efforts. But if you have some other dreams and passions in your mind which keep on raising their heads in between your busy schedules of family and career involvements, give them a chance by getting freedom from the usual engagements of life.
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