Into the Wild
I just saw the movie, ‘Into the Wild’.
I would say its an amazing movie, a notch above The Motorcyle Diaries. It explores those question, that I have asked myself many times and have been afraid to answer. The sense of false security, of having a career, of relying on money and calling it your Future. Many at times I have felt and argued with myself that there has to be more to life than this, than going to work, following a routine.
When I think myself and relate it to the environment, I see and feel that I haven’t given anything back. That I have not made a difference to anyone, that my being present in this earth could so easily be replaced with the presence of anyone else. That there is no reason for anyone to remember me, who does not have a relation with me. I am just another soul in the crowd without having any consequence onto anyone and anything.
On my journey to and fro from work, I spent thinking that I should go out and do something. What, I don’t know. And the real frustration is, I can’t seem to find the answer, and yet I have been asking this for sometime. I sometimes think, until I got my job, I had a goal. And to reach that goal, I had, subconsciously been making milestones and reaching them. Now that I have reached that goal, and don’t seem to know where next to go. What is the next step I should take, what is the thing that interests me, what is it that I am passionate about, I don’t know. I no longer seem to understand the aim of my life anymore.
Lot of questions, I know. Those who know me, know that I ask a lot of questions. I term it as my curiosity. But not finding the answers of those questions, I term as my insecurity, as my confusion. I think I should also go out into the wild, in search of new experiences !!
Totally agree with the goal theory. You had a goal uptil now, because there were people to tell you that you have to reach there, there were examples to follow.
You’re on your own now.
Set you own goals.
Why not take the road less travelled?