Success vs. Joy
WHATEVER I WISHED FOR
Midway through this life, I look back and count what I’ve got.
My parents’ wishes fulfilled, a happy family, good health, a decent career, a good lifestyle...but where has joy gone? Was I chasing the wrong dreams?
Given a choice between happiness and success, I had chosen success.
I’m looking for a lot of answers. I believe a top golfer or a billiards player has to have complete control over his mind. I’m way behind, and today, to me this matters more than anything else.
Geet plays with hope and good cheer. I approach life with what if. Geet encounters real problems every minute at the table, and I, with none, feel despair. Success, or rather, the show of success, seemed worth more to me than joy. Ignorantly that’s what I thought I loved, and the fear of losing it kept me going.
This journey that I traversed with Geet is as much his as mine. Mirroring our experiences, I found a few of the answers.
There is still time to come away, to the road less traveled. I realized that I had led a life where I could ‘sell’ a story. With this journey, I realize I can now ‘tell’ a story.
Sunil Agarwal