Little Boxes: 'they all look just the same'

If you ever have wondered the life you are leading is how you choose to be or by the choice of others- surely you have stumbled upon these points, like I do often:

• -          Why my day starts with a routine to wake up when the alarm rings, why not when I want to wake up? (Not being lazy here though )

• -          Why I feel happiest every Friday evening and yell “Weekending”, not feel happy every morning I start up with?

• -          Why the hell did I read sin,cos,tan theta and broke my head at semesters, missed world cup cricket matches, missed dance schools, missed tri-color ice-gola before exams and now they are nowhere around my life? I

• -          Why I had to maintain 80% attendance in Chemistry lab, never bunked a class to savour pocket-money biriyani, when I have forgotten the color of copper nitrate or how the carbon structure of CA(OCL)CL used to be, only remember the smell of the high school lab?

• -          Why did I never sit in college canteen and enjoyed that part of life, all I feared was how to get a job?

• -          Why I am an engineer today, where all I want is to work for Fox Traveler? Why do I worry about bug-fixes where all I want to do is to see the world before I die?

• -          Why my life have these partitions like a computer hard-disk – Family, Office, Health, Age, Grocery, Society etc ?

• -          Why like a product life-cycle, my life should be following clear defined states – was A kid, A student, A worker, A wife, A mother and then end up DYING one day ? Like the “Little Boxes” – Malvina Reynolds.

Well, there’s probably no elucidation, no straight answer to this. We shall keep on stumbling upon these tricky doubts on ourselves until we sleep well at night and wake up by the same alarm clock and feel every thing’s alright.

May be there’s only one way to find an interstellar and escape fleetingly. That is by living your life by your choice for some time. Rewarding moments of life to oneself.

• ·         Pick up a guitar and sing out loud. Who knows you can be better than a bathroom singer!
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• ·         Pack the back-pack and head up to destinations. It’s the journey that matters, not where or what you’re heading for.
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• ·         Switch off the phone and walk down the lanes of your city which you never explored. One can explore more there than social-media or search-engines.
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• ·         Forget you have Diabetes for one day and pamper yourself with a “Death-By-Chocolate”, A thousand death is worth it!
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• ·         Write down some codes on crazy ideas you have in mind for which you could never make time and be an innovator.
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• ·         Walk into a street side evening school and take voluntary class.
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• ·         Take a long-leave or quit the job for few months and go for world tour or work as free-lancer or join dance-classes or go for photography work-shops or learn a foreign language or join the academics again. We live only till 50, and after that manufacturing-defect starts showing up in human body. Time is less and wish-list is long. Possibilities are higher in numbers.
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• ·         Make a plan to meet up with old-friends , a meeting which gets postponed every time by other priorities.

May be these are not enough, to live a life king-size. May be there are thousand better ideas and opportunities which can make a life worthy of living.

Let’s search for them before we end of being “products”, with a strict discipline and guidelines for our content, labelling, manufacturing, packaging and selling identities.  Not living entities any more.