There came a time in my life when I was totally done with the job that I was doing. I was done as in DONE. There was nothing more to learn, there was nothing more to teach. Life was becoming more of a morass of monocrity and there was nothing left. But there was one decision I had stood with. I wanted to be with technology and not move on management. And there was a personal reason to it. I was a reporting specialist and I loved the representation of data. It was weird.
It was wonderful how data could be visualized and displayed in so many different forms. And every bit of data, is like a child waiting to get dressed, waiting to play. I have always missed art in my life and here I was with every opportunity to paint, create and build. But here the canvas was data. Some of the representations of data has been nothing less than breathtaking. And I....I have been enjoying all the painting. I have been honing my skills with the latest version of Business Objects (4.0). I have been trying my hand with Xcelsius and Qlikview. It has been an interesting ride so far.
The point I want to make here is, there are always ways around us to find our calling, but we are so adamant on what we want to do that we completely forget what is being offered to us. And we continue to complain. We never seem to be happy with what we have and always struggle for what we want. Life has so much to offer but we continue our search for what we want. It's interesting as it is funny, how people just seem to accept what they find instead of finding what they accept.
Bill Gates stumbled upon Microsoft, Narayan Murthy and his team never imagined Infosys would someday be a behemoth and Facebook has already made a certain Mark quite famous. Books have been written and read. Lectures have been delivered and digested but human tendency is to search continuously. We searched for food, we searched for a better life and now we search for happiness. We always find a reason to be unhappy about a part of our lives and manage to complain. But let me ask you this......
It's just one life. Is it worth all the complaints and the animosity towards what has been granted to us? I feel, it is much better to live and enjoy what we have than to worry and crib about what we do not have. This world is magical, this life is magical. What we really need to do is find the magic. There magic everywhere. Step up and find it.
It was wonderful how data could be visualized and displayed in so many different forms. And every bit of data, is like a child waiting to get dressed, waiting to play. I have always missed art in my life and here I was with every opportunity to paint, create and build. But here the canvas was data. Some of the representations of data has been nothing less than breathtaking. And I....I have been enjoying all the painting. I have been honing my skills with the latest version of Business Objects (4.0). I have been trying my hand with Xcelsius and Qlikview. It has been an interesting ride so far.
The point I want to make here is, there are always ways around us to find our calling, but we are so adamant on what we want to do that we completely forget what is being offered to us. And we continue to complain. We never seem to be happy with what we have and always struggle for what we want. Life has so much to offer but we continue our search for what we want. It's interesting as it is funny, how people just seem to accept what they find instead of finding what they accept.
Bill Gates stumbled upon Microsoft, Narayan Murthy and his team never imagined Infosys would someday be a behemoth and Facebook has already made a certain Mark quite famous. Books have been written and read. Lectures have been delivered and digested but human tendency is to search continuously. We searched for food, we searched for a better life and now we search for happiness. We always find a reason to be unhappy about a part of our lives and manage to complain. But let me ask you this......
It's just one life. Is it worth all the complaints and the animosity towards what has been granted to us? I feel, it is much better to live and enjoy what we have than to worry and crib about what we do not have. This world is magical, this life is magical. What we really need to do is find the magic. There magic everywhere. Step up and find it.
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