From the beginning of time, we have been taught to face the challenges of life with a smile. They say its the challenges that put the "life" into Life. Very true, I guess. There have always been lessons and poems in school text books reiterating this very thought. But in the midst of giving a fight to all problems and challenges, did they forget to tell us "how to deal" with a normal life?
One without any problems?
Yeah.. I know you would say... there is no such perfect life. Everyone has their own problems. It is facing these problems that makes a person stronger everyday. It helps to build qualities that we may lack in. It increases endurance, etc. But all this for what?? More problems of course. Now suppose that all your problems finish... hypothetically. It just might be possible that we are in the midst of a nightmare!! :) Isn't it ironical??
Let me support my hypothesis with a few examples. (Am I studying too hard for GRE? :p i dont think so... anyway... coming back..)
My mom takes tuitions of school kids. Just today, This boy from 7th std was solving an exercise on indices. There were sums like
17 raised to 0
1/3 raised to 0
-11 raised to 0
He asked mom if he should leave that exercise and go ahead to the next one.. It was tooo easy.. Nothing to keep the brain stimulated. No challenges. EASY.
One would have felt in the normal circumstances that Pune university sucks.. and would have probably advised the boy to skip 2 more exercises and go on right ahead. But... no... Mom said no! "Whats wrong with doing easy stuff?? You are asking me to exempt you from doing it ... this means that you have a problem with doing it... whats your problem?? Aren't you able to do it??"
I went to the poor guys rescue.. saying that its tooo boring and not worth the effort. Nothing new to learn from it. Basically "hamali"!
"So whats the problem?? DO it. Indeed you people do have a problem! The problem for you guys is .. that there is no problem! You cant enjoy life when there are no problems?? What happened to enjoying the easy stuff?? "
Well, no one ever taught us THAT. Yeah, now the "real problem" is that no one taught us to deal with no problems.. DO you see how I try to invent a "real problem" so that I am preoccupied in solving it? Or at least contemplating it. Thats coz I cant deal with not having one :)
Its getting too meshy :) and recursive :D
So i guess thats the reason we are all looking for challenging jobs. New things to do everyday. So that we grow and don't remain stunted. But at the very base of this growth lies the fact that we may be running away from something we can't really do.
LIVE.
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can i use the argument to justify my failure as a student?
While you've been busy studying, I've been living...
okay... that was more bitter than i intended it to be... what i wanted to say was: we look for new challenges not because we are scared of a life without problems, but because we want other people to say "Look at the problems he has surmounted."
We always regret not standing up to a challenge.
I would not agree only on the last paragraph.... Yes, i would like to do challenging stuff which would not stunt my growth. That does not mean i'm not living. I don't quite understand what you mean by "LIFE" or "LIVING A LIFE".
Also... i don't think that a simple life is a beautiful life. I can have a complex one and enjoy it also. :)
hmm..
this one is similar to "Give me some valium"... by manan...
But a good one nevertheless... gets u thinking :)
Nice... I agree with you on the part that we invent problems to keep ourselves occupied at times.. I know I do... I can't imagine not having something to obsess about!! And then I think that I'd do anything to have a simple life, whereas I never allow myself too. I don't equate this to challenges.. Challenges in life are real, where as what I think you are talking about is, how we "want" to have a problem when there is no need to have one...maybe the maths example was taken too literally and practically..
Ofcourse this is how I interpreted it, would like to hear your comments too! :)
Keep writing!
i disagree with the last paragraph.
as on today.
ka ga? kay jhala?
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