It is almost a year now that I started going to the gym... I started maybe just because I found it new... but with time I realized that I simply like running... And then I see NB [The geek sitting Next to me] running 4.5 km one day.... back then I could hardly run 1.5 km... I decided to run 5 km without stopping... at the best speed I could....
It took months before I reached anywhere close.... People came and people left.... I continued... NB got married..... No more working out for him.... And finally...... last Friday... I ran 6km... in 28 mins.... Coming to think of it... it is not a great feat or anything that I should be very proud of... But for me somehow it symbolizes doing what I once thought was impossible.....
Time and again I am reminded of Mr. Sur... My maths/chemistry teacher in Class X who once said that I should get a 99% in Maths..... A man can do what a man has done... is how he put it....
Running a marathon is all I dream of now..... Miles to go before I sleep.... And many promises to keep... and miles to go before I sleep.....
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Monday, July 9, 2007
Living a moment
Today I was talking with an office colleague, when this topic came up:
If you were given a choice right now, to go back in the past, without the knowledge that you have lived it once and without any knowledge of anything that has happened, would you take it?
Now, there are points to note about this. Had it been with the knowledge of the fact that you know you have lived this and what you are going to see the next day, it is a naïveté idea. You could go buy shares of google, you could do Hotmail before Sabir did and many more such things. However, knowing that you wont have the knowledge makes it a much different and difficult choice to make.
While we were talking, our MD comes into the conversation, and we ask him the same question, in almost a split second he gives an answer: "I will....". Knowing that he doesnt have the knowledge of the life he lived... Now we were surprised... His logic.... simple... and yet profound.... "Being where I am... at this age... I am thrilled to know that I get to make a journey again... so what if I take the same path... reach the same place where I am today... or take a different path... and be a beggar on the streets.... its the journey... that I find worth the risk... "
I guess age changes the perspective....
As for me... I wouldnt take it.... not now... and not in my foreseeable future... unless I am allowed to retain not the knowledge or the information... but just the wisdom that we gain by living through different experiences... the wisdom that might help me to make choices different from what I did then.... And I think I would take it even if it came for a hefty price.... And even as I say this... his words come back to me... maybe it really doesnt matter... maybe to take the journey again is really worth the risk....
If you were given a choice right now, to go back in the past, without the knowledge that you have lived it once and without any knowledge of anything that has happened, would you take it?
Now, there are points to note about this. Had it been with the knowledge of the fact that you know you have lived this and what you are going to see the next day, it is a naïveté idea. You could go buy shares of google, you could do Hotmail before Sabir did and many more such things. However, knowing that you wont have the knowledge makes it a much different and difficult choice to make.
While we were talking, our MD comes into the conversation, and we ask him the same question, in almost a split second he gives an answer: "I will....". Knowing that he doesnt have the knowledge of the life he lived... Now we were surprised... His logic.... simple... and yet profound.... "Being where I am... at this age... I am thrilled to know that I get to make a journey again... so what if I take the same path... reach the same place where I am today... or take a different path... and be a beggar on the streets.... its the journey... that I find worth the risk... "
I guess age changes the perspective....
As for me... I wouldnt take it.... not now... and not in my foreseeable future... unless I am allowed to retain not the knowledge or the information... but just the wisdom that we gain by living through different experiences... the wisdom that might help me to make choices different from what I did then.... And I think I would take it even if it came for a hefty price.... And even as I say this... his words come back to me... maybe it really doesnt matter... maybe to take the journey again is really worth the risk....
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