Is Life an Apple product?
So here's a confession, I started writing this piece a few years back, but left it incomplete because I couldn't find a suitable conclusion. Or may be there was one, but I felt strongly about its inadequacy. And now, after almost 3 years, my mind stumbled upon a comparison which seems to explain the absence of a proper conclusion, or may be provides one.
I want you to imagine and go back in time to when you were still a kid. And at that time, when someone asked you, "What do you want to be in life?", it seemed like a simple question and you'd answer with a random profession, and you thought that accomplishing it was going to be the most important facet of your life. It was as convenient as that. Of course it was supposed to be convenient, as that's a part of the charm an innocence a kid has.
For me, the answer to that question was engineer, mainly because my father was one, and it sounded cool. So I thought "engineer banunga, maza aayega aur life set!" (I'll be an engineer, it will be fun and life will be set!). I didn't know what engineers do, or heck even what my father did for that sake, but I knew that I will have to complete my education to become one. And so the journey began, complete 12th with a good score, become engineer and life set! I believed in it, all I had to do was study well and get into a good college. I started graduation to be an engineer, and it was said that complete engineering with a decent score, get a job and life set! I believed in that too. All I had to do was find a well to do job and that's it, finally maza aayega and life will be set! But it was when I started working, I came to realize that maybe my concepts were flawed. I started working for a respected firm but somehow, life was not that set, and it was fun, but the maza was not the same as I imagined it all along. So, there I was, after doing everything which the template asked me to do, still trying to figure out what to do in life so that I may get the feeling that now all is set, still scratching my head trying to find that one thing which will make it all fall into place as per that childhood belief.
But today, further 3 years down the line, I am still unable to construe the answer. Now that brings me to my weird comparison. Apple has some hugely popular and successful products like the iPhone and the iPad. And when you compare the technical specifications of the iPhone to top-of-the-line Android smartphones, the iPhone seems to be behind the eight ball in most of the aspects. Yet it finds itself on top of the popularity charts. The reason behind this is that the summation of all the parts of the iPhone provides, arguably, a much more satisfying user experience. Somehow, the slightly inferior specifications of the individual components is trumped by the performance they deliver in a combined way.
And now, I think that maybe I was, and have been, approaching this all wrong. Maybe life is a lot like an Apple product. There are a lot of achievements and milestones here and there, but maybe, it's not a single thing which will make it all look worthwhile, but a collection of small yet significant accomplishments in life. Maybe, it all makes a lot of sense together. Maybe one day, I'll sit, look back and recollect all these individual parts, put them together and think that this is what it all meant all along. And having realized this now, I feel much more content and at peace with my life is set and maza aayega clause. I think I have found a proper conclusion in this equivalence. I may be wrong, and maybe one day, someday, I'll find another conclusion, but at least I have the sum of the parts to be happy with now.
Well you have great words power, really appreciate your thoughts. Very motivating and led you focus on current. Keep articulating these phrases of life in layman words !
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DeletePretty insightful and inspirational!! Keep up the good work.
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DeleteYou had me at the title. Good one yet again.
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DeleteFeeling good after reading it. Great job!
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DeleteNice comparison kashish.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work and keep inspiring us..kudos!!
Superb imagination... nostalgic again....life set maza aayega these words are so original...😊👍....well done ...
ReplyDeleteLife is really not what we thought in our childhood.. Its entirely different but beautiful.. We just need to see it from different angle.. Great work kashish!
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DeleteEvery individual is different and wants different things from life but what you said is true, it these small things that make it beautiful.
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