Wednesday, April 1, 2009


Here are a few things that I want to do:

a. Visit Australia, watch the Ashes – Boxing day test match in Melbourne

b. Meet my cricket icons (gods) Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh, Shane Warne, McGrath, touch their feet and seek their blessings

c. Go to Glacier Bay National Park

d. Back Pack most of Europe

e. Visit Rome and the Coliseum

f. Boat ride on the streets of Venice

g. Watch the cricket game between England and Australia at Lords

h. Drive along the Scottish woods

i. Spend some time at Port Hawkesbury in Nova Scotia and experience what it feels to be in the middle of a thunderstorm

j. Get to the Victoria Falls in Africa and take a Safari

k. Make a movie, a comical one

Well, the list is endless. You might want to do a million more things and frantically you realize that there is no means to accomplish what you just put down. In my case, whatever I have listed above is a partial list of things that I would most want to do before I die.

Like mine, everyone of you would have a list and almost everyday one wishes that some of the wish list gets closer to materialization. Most of us would not have the means to overcome the wish list.

As I understand, there is only one reason why we are not in a position to making our wishes come true. We simply do NOT possess enough clarity of thought in whatever we seek. We wanted to become someone in life, but we end up being someone or something else in life. This holds true for 90% of the people we know. The remaining 10% of the people who are set out to achieve what they want to achieve are those who essentially defy the normal logic of leading a life, or rebellious in attitude or unconventional or extremely passionate about their hobbies or necessarily much more determined than normal humans and possess an absolute clarity of thought through seeking objectivity in life or their living.

Most of us are leading a rather compromising life. We want to eat something but we end up not having it for reasons which may not be mentioned. We wanted our choice of career, but we are someone else in the office. I always wanted to be connected with the world of spirits or to narrow down my choice of sport, it has always been cricket. As you can see from my different things I would do before I die, most of it is connected with either travel and tourism or sports. But I ended up going to a rather boring office, with boring people around and not much of excitement between the 9 hours that I spend in my closed room. Although I dreamt about having a job that puts me on a sports desk and makes me travel around the world, I didn’t take the right steps to achieve that goal and now I rue my chances of having lost a decade of experience in ruing about the same.

I am writing this to persuade a section of my readers to pursue their hobbies. How you could do that? Well make your hobby your job but the vice versa of my statement doesn’t hold the purpose. If you have your hobby as your job, there is nothing remorseful about it. One tends to be more than creative about the work or hobby in this case.

Bill Lawry, the famous Australian cricket commentator, was once asked by Ray Martin as to how HE brought about so much life into his JOB. Bill stopped him mid way into the question and corrected Ray telling him that it was NOT his JOB, but it was his HOBBY that he pursues with Channel 9. When you are pursue your hobby, you bring life into whatever you set out to do. You tend to be creative, start looking at positives from every angle…. And a lot of things that make the work place a lot better and people start enjoying it. I totally agree with Bill. I always keep telling people that Tony Grieg, Bill Lawry, Tony Cozier and the forgotten Henry Blofeld are the most liveliest cricket commentators ever to grace the commentary box. Because all that they knew was better english and a better understanding of what their everyday passion and hobby was and that was nothing but cricket. They eat, sleep, drink and talk cricket. That made them commenting icons of the cricket world. I was watching this interview with Bill Lawry in 1997 when a game got canceled because of rain in Brisbane. Bill is so very damn right by all perspective.

Most of us are bogged down by our daily routine and lack of creativity in every walk of life, that our lives have become insanely lifeless. We are nothing but dead men and women walking. All that we can do to overcome this situation is to take a break, get within our skin and seek solace and query our soul as to what we are, what we are capable of and seek what we are set out to do. Seek clarity of thought, seek objectivity of our existence. Pursue our hobbies. Forget everything, every pressure and just QUIT from the daily mockery of our life.

Its rather very easy to say this than making it possible. But its our life and who else but one himself/herself knows the purpose of thier/our life. Afterall we live for ourselves and our life needs a direction of sorts.

Yeah, I am watching a lot of Seinfeld these days and hopefully the script to make one similar Seinfeld ready in Telugu is coming soon. I have the actors ready tho!

I want to pursue my hobbies and making so, I will have control over my time. When I have control over my time, I do things as per my schedule and not anyone else's schedule. The by-product of doing so is going to be means to accomplish my remaining hobbies and that is to Travel the world. If I am able to do that before I turn 50, my purpose of existence has been established.

Cheers mate

Rajesh

PS: By the way, thats me and my Fiance'