Goal

"What is your ultimate goal in life?" That was the question I was asked in the 'Values in Management' class the other day... I must admit that I felt the same what Rakhi Sawant would... when asked “What do you think about being sensible?”

“I want to be happy”, I said - An all inclusive and simple answer. But, what is it that makes me happy? Money, Power, Friends, Family, What? It is very uncharacteristic of me to think about such things, but one needs a mission statement in order to accomplish something. Ideally, I would want to accomplish whatever there is to be accomplished in the world. But, given the fact that there are only 55*365*24 hours of life left (in the best of conditions) to achieve whatever I want to achieve, I must cut down my wants to a few.

I know for sure that the money drives the world and can be traded for other mundane things in life... That makes money the most important thing to gain. What is money if you cannot put it to use for your loved ones... That means I want a very good family and friends with whom I can share my life (and money), go on a lot of vacations and spend a lot of time.

There are several ways to achieve my first want. Let me start with the simple ones...

I can just do nothing about my want and let my luck (which has been a not seen, not heard, not felt thing till now) play its own role. May be I will continue to do what I am doing at present and expect some amir baap ki beti to marry me or maybe I will win a billion dollar lottery some day. Again, given the reality of lack of luck in my life and my inability to attract girls like that guy in the axe advertisement (Read as my decency), I need to find out better ways to earn money.

This leaves me with only one more option... Study a lot, earn a handful of degrees, work with the best of the companies at best of the positions earning best of the salaries and earn money. But, more salary means more work, more business trips and less time with family and friends. That means my two wants are conflicting and I need to maximize both when both are negatively correlated (Yes, I also have a stats professor who asks me questions and he teaches me things that help me analyse things like correlation coefficient between the number of words spoken by the professor in the class and the number of paper-planes created-launched and crashed by the students in the class)

Jokes apart, I think when there is a conflict between my two wants, I would prefer my family and friends over money. I just hope that my family and friends make a lot of money so that I need not face such hard times ever ;-)

Among the other breaking news, I have been starving for a few days now and extracting all the nutrients that I need for survival from the cutting chai served at a tapri near college. The phenomenon has obviously taken a toll on my health and I have not been able to pretend to concentrate in the classes these days. This may seem to be an overstatement considering the fact that I live in Mumbai but I have really come to understand the worth of ghar ka khana while I have been away from home. So, weekend or off-day food at home is like a grand party for me these days.

Anyway, that is enough for now; a garma garam cutting followed by lot of knowledge-imparting classes are waiting for me...