Having grown up in a family where my dad used to (and still) works for 6 days a week, I thought a 5 day week would mean you have a lot more time to yourself. Reality is the days are only what we make of it. Whether we sit at the office, at home, at a bar or wherever else. 2 days a week, 104 days a year. I guess a whole lot of us just want to relax and then there are a whole bunch of those who think this can be made a good use of. The element of discretion is where our lives differ and from one another. The element of discretion that forces us to make or avoid decisions based on what we truly want. A weekend can be thought of as the time when you can watch six movies, sleep 26 hours or play sports, read a book, devote time in NGOs or do something meaningful. Its these little differences that I think are going to differentiate between how two lives pan out over the course of their lifetime. There are of course those who are going to succeed immensely in what they do, so much that they are going to be entrusted by their followers to be leaders in the fields, but what about the followers themselves. How do their lives get a meaning? How do they differentiate from the others? How do they find their identity among the 7 billion souls? Maybe we are not meant to find identity and being lost is exactly whats expected, but that theory seems to contradict itself when we look at what makes people happy or sad when the end is near. By what I've learned so far there seems to be a lesser regret of the things you actually did rather than the things you couldn't do. Those that you couldn't do should be done and could be pursued if one knew what he really wants. So, here is my plan. I need to know exactly what is it that I'm going to do over the next 10 years if not more. This should be a list that should slowly fill up my weekends and should shape it in such a way that is less taxing and more fulfilling at the same time. There has to be a list. A list is sometimes the answer to a lot of things, it brings order to things. What goes on that list? I guess the most important features of the list should be the things that we imagine we are going to regret not doing the most 10 years later when we sit down and look back at how it turned out.
There could be a whole lot of colors to the list. People are passionate about traveling or so they say and have a whole bunch of places they want to visit but they never can because we lose the sense of time. Remember when you got out of college, that wasn't many years ago was it? Maybe you should count it. Time flies by, weekends are wasted and years are gone. So the passionate traveler has to sit down and write about where he is wants to visit. Often we find that when we try to come up with such things they are overwhelmingly many. And that's the beauty of list. It can get you to work. Without it, even half of it seems not possible.
I have a friend who wants to make a movie, but I'm not sure how is that ever going to happen. I definitely hope it does cuz when it does I'm going to be part of it. But the problem is again having always a vision of the things you want and if that vision is not clear working on it continuously to bring clarity sooner than later. If you knew an exhaustive list of things you should be doing and shred off the fluff life seems to have a meaning, at least according to the list if not in absolute terms.
My aim now is to finish working on my list. I'm going to share it at some point of time and also about how I'm doing against that list. See if we reach somewhere. See if I can make my weekend theory of discretion work in my favor.
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