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Stop Waiting For The Perfect Time..
Posted Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:04 PM by Ansoon
Posted this on my blog today and wanted to share it here on GS as well..
Stop Waiting For The Perfect Time.. Random musings
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I am not sure about you but a lot of people around me have advice me to wait for the perfect time to do something.
When I was young, I was told to wait for the perfect time to start having fun, and concentrate completely on my studies. I was told that this is the most important part of my life and once I graduate, with that shiny degree I would be able to do whatever I wish.
Once graduated, I was told to grab a job – start saving and once I have saved enough, paid my dues to the society I would be free to do whatever I wish.
And so on, I wonder when this cycle of advice will end and when will I be able to do “whatever” I wish?
The common theme across all the advice that I received was to meet a certain personal set of conditions before I can make the next move in my life. Now think about all the advices you received, the choices you made and realize that those were nothing but excuses. Blaming some outside force that we can’t control, creating obstacles that aren’t actually there. Soon I realized that this becomes a never ending trap. All sort of thoughts start to come to our mind. “I can’t pursue this dream unless I leave my job and I can’t leave my job since I need to pay bills”.
Another scenario is when we start thinking that we have thousand of problems in our life. We start to rant about anything that’s causing us to stress and fail to do anything to correct it. We get overwhelmed by our thoughts and eventually just give up.
The problem is that perfect time doesn’t exist. It’s illusive. It’s misleading. You will end up waiting for it all your life.
There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams, to do something valuable, to make a difference. No matter when you make these choices, there will always be a risk factor.
So my only advice to myself and people around me is to stop waiting. Create change in your life; create change in other people’s life. There is no such thing as “perfection” and there certainly isn’t any perfect time.
Stop Waiting For The Perfect Time.. Random musings
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I am not sure about you but a lot of people around me have advice me to wait for the perfect time to do something.
When I was young, I was told to wait for the perfect time to start having fun, and concentrate completely on my studies. I was told that this is the most important part of my life and once I graduate, with that shiny degree I would be able to do whatever I wish.
Once graduated, I was told to grab a job – start saving and once I have saved enough, paid my dues to the society I would be free to do whatever I wish.
And so on, I wonder when this cycle of advice will end and when will I be able to do “whatever” I wish?
The common theme across all the advice that I received was to meet a certain personal set of conditions before I can make the next move in my life. Now think about all the advices you received, the choices you made and realize that those were nothing but excuses. Blaming some outside force that we can’t control, creating obstacles that aren’t actually there. Soon I realized that this becomes a never ending trap. All sort of thoughts start to come to our mind. “I can’t pursue this dream unless I leave my job and I can’t leave my job since I need to pay bills”.
Another scenario is when we start thinking that we have thousand of problems in our life. We start to rant about anything that’s causing us to stress and fail to do anything to correct it. We get overwhelmed by our thoughts and eventually just give up.
The problem is that perfect time doesn’t exist. It’s illusive. It’s misleading. You will end up waiting for it all your life.
There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams, to do something valuable, to make a difference. No matter when you make these choices, there will always be a risk factor.
So my only advice to myself and people around me is to stop waiting. Create change in your life; create change in other people’s life. There is no such thing as “perfection” and there certainly isn’t any perfect time.
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I totally agree. Ought to make my parents read this. Hmph.Posted Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:53 PM by inzi_rocks
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EXACTLY. this is what I hate.. it's always "have fun later, enjoy life later" later later later...what good is it to be miserable now for a tomorrow that we may not see ?Posted Oct 7th, 2009 at 05:55 PM by Sara516
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Brilliant post. I totally agree with you.Posted Oct 8th, 2009 at 03:04 AM by Silver Falcon Of Kashmir
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kal ho na ho.
most of the time it's to do with chasing this dunya. dunya=illusion. So what are we chasing?Posted Oct 8th, 2009 at 04:12 AM by cricketplaya
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