Drifters

This is my first post after joining the B-school and most of you were expecting a post on a very different topic I know, some were even predicting a change in the mood of the blog. Yeah! Yeah! I can hear you guys saying, it’s just been two weeks, let’s wait and watch, but you people should know better than that.

Now, you might wonder, why is the topic titled as drifters and the why in the hell are you talking about something else. The point is “Precisely that!!”

See, I am aimlessly drifting; I am going everywhere but no where. Of course, as you all know I am slightly insane and prone to ramble and rant.

The definition of drifter as given in dictionary.com is that of a person who moves from place to place or job to job without any aim.

But what about the people who are “highly successful” individuals but do not have a aim in their life. People who stay in one place are successful in their personal and professional life but do not have a purpose to their life.

Most people, I at least according tome fall into this second category of successful but purposeless people. I accept that I too belong to this category (Of course I am not as highly successful as some of the people in this category.)

The reasons may be various, one of this maybe because there is simple no time to think of these things. As the saying goes “In today’s world, we have run fast just to stay in the same place”.

Another reason could be that people don’t want to answer that question because they are afraid of the answer. After all aren’t most of us thought from our childhood that success is about getting high marks in the examinations and that sports, arts come secondary? These are so ingrained into us, that by the time we grow up and realize what we have missed it is too late and we have been conditioned in the “conventional” way that to think otherwise becomes a pain to us. And so, most people choose the easy way out.

So, what am I trying to convey through this post? The answer is that is most of us drifters in one way or the other. Just that we don’t realize it.

By the way, no one here suspects me yet to be the lunatic that I am. I have been keeping my insane side in control. But I am staring to lose it.