All these days, I had been evaluating everything that was happening around to find something worthy of mention. Today out of nowhere I had my small eureka moment.
I discovered something seemingly ironic!
Well, blame on my current schedule, I rarely find the time or enthusiasm to converse on long drawn phone calls. Today, being a day off I thought it best to spend sometime chatting away.
The first call was an obvious choice, while we spoke, we landed up in a discussion where this dear one insisted on, me doing something risky, assuring me of support if by any luck I landed up in a mess. I would have blindly gone ahead with the idea, had it been the previous me. However, today it did not quite go down well with me. Precisely why I chose to share it.
No, the idea is not bothering me at all, it flew out of pure emotions and it got me an adrenaline rush. For the almost routine life that I currently have, it was a good enough dose of feel good hormones, in my system. What actually got me thinking was my reaction to the idea and how immensely different it was from the previous times.
Be it because of my starsign or the genetic coding of my cells, I am a natural dreamer and have excellent imagination skills ( I am a trained human resources person, guess now you know where the "skills" came from). But, off lately I have been training myself to being practical and to live in the present. Guess, I have advanced quite a bit in my training.
So, when this idea was presented to me, my natural reaction of diving carefree into the idea was taken over by my trained practical self, who then went on to dissecting the situation and calculating probabilities of success and failure. While the probability of success was considerable, my newly acquired self was consumed in the fear of failure. Though I gave the idea a try eventually being naturally attracted to it ; but quite differently this time - by having a solution ready for each kind of probability to mitigate chances of failure.
My way of dealing with the idea made me look around to find if there were other people like me or was I the only one. What got me to share this feeling was the fact that it is more or less a phenomenon.
While people say being practical is being fearless I have a diametrically opposite thought. To me, risk taking stems from imagination which in turn calls for adventure and attending to that call is being fearless !!
The more practical people become, the more calculative and speculative they transform into. Adventure is not merely climbing a mountain or braving the waves - it can jolly well be anything small that can shake up the status quo.
While I close with this thought for today, you folks can set your sails to take a plunge into the sea of imagination ....... Happy Imagining !!
