Five years from now....
I didn't realise that I had been staring blankly at the screen for the past half hour until my eyes started watering. Come to think of it I can't even make out what was going on in my mind :)
Somebody asked me a few days ago "Where do you see yourself five years from now?". If this question had been asked by a prospective employer at an interview, the answer would have been a well rehearsed rhetoric of how I would have progressed up the company's hierarchial ladder, contributing both to my personal development and the company's growth. Crap.... who would know what is going to happen tommorrow let alone in five years. Since this was my friend I gave a true,heartfelt, answer "I don't know". This is the truth.
Iam not getting philosophical here. In fact Iam being practical. During campus recruitment this apparently inane question used to be the litmus test. You could see the people waiting to be interviewed, frantically trying to get a personalised version of his/her friend's answer. Even I have done that. How many different ways can there be to satisfy a corporate executive's ego? They hear what they want to hear. But we cannot tell them what we want to. Can we?
All Iam sure of right now is that whatever I will be doing it would be something I like,something I choose. Very few people get to do what they like and I want to be in these privileged few. Quoting R, it is my need- and if I need something I would get it. It is in your power to do what you like. Making a few compromises in life is ok but let your life not become a huge compromise in itself.
Somebody asked me a few days ago "Where do you see yourself five years from now?". If this question had been asked by a prospective employer at an interview, the answer would have been a well rehearsed rhetoric of how I would have progressed up the company's hierarchial ladder, contributing both to my personal development and the company's growth. Crap.... who would know what is going to happen tommorrow let alone in five years. Since this was my friend I gave a true,heartfelt, answer "I don't know". This is the truth.
Iam not getting philosophical here. In fact Iam being practical. During campus recruitment this apparently inane question used to be the litmus test. You could see the people waiting to be interviewed, frantically trying to get a personalised version of his/her friend's answer. Even I have done that. How many different ways can there be to satisfy a corporate executive's ego? They hear what they want to hear. But we cannot tell them what we want to. Can we?
All Iam sure of right now is that whatever I will be doing it would be something I like,something I choose. Very few people get to do what they like and I want to be in these privileged few. Quoting R, it is my need- and if I need something I would get it. It is in your power to do what you like. Making a few compromises in life is ok but let your life not become a huge compromise in itself.
posted by kkiyer at
12:54 AM
5 Comments:
I guess one should be able to distinguish b/w situations when one has to compromise and when one doesn't have to. You write well. Keep blogging.
Hey Kitty,
Never thought you'd give that casual question a second thought.. after that genuine answer that left your lips...
Good Luck for anything and everything you do..!! Hah, anyway I'm sure gonna be around to c most of your dreams come true.. I'll remind you of all this then... :)
something I like....it is a dynamic entity and if likes and needs change is it compromise or
adaptation or growth
Can compromise from one perspective be "end of illusion" from other ???????
Manjunath-Thanx for the comments.Hope to keep the blogs coming.
RB-Sometimes it is these small questions that stir up deep introspection.good thing you asked me.
Anonymous-Well....adaptation,growth etc are relative terms. They will change with time and place.I could say i like pizza today and change my stand on it tomorrow.
But what I was referring to was not something as mundane as a pizza or a coke.There must be a deep rooted need in you, your soul purpose of existence that won't and should not change.If that changes then you either donot know what you want from life or you have very loose ideas about what your needs are.Just a little thought.
Densel- Thanks!! :)
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