What do I want ?
Many times, I am perplexed by the audacity of people in planning their careers / life ahead of them. I think partly, this is driven out of my own jealousy of them. When I see them (particularly, the ambitious, career oriented type of people), they seem to know what they want for themselves with an awful amount of clarity, whereas I am nowhere near anything like that ! I read a book two weeks ago - "When breath becomes air " by Paul Kalanithi. I feel humbled even to write an introduction to Paul, so attaching his intro here. In his book, Paul writes about many things. While his writing on his childhood mesmerised me, when he talked about concepts of God & religion, I simply couldn't comprehend the complex abstract concepts he has expressed tersely in such dense statements. He writes that when the news of cancer loomed on him, he felt that he had built up potential till then and his potential would go unrealised. This line moved me deeply. When I read this book,...