how much i want to take my shoes off and say…ok fine…thats enough…lets me sit back and enjoy the rest of my life in peace and happiness….but can this ever be possible ? i do think of this every other day but cannot decide which day will be my last day of work…it just keeps on getting postponed.
Is life only work ,work and work..? Can we ever take off our shoes and say ok …thats it .
Comments
Anushka Shroff
Yes Yes Yes …Life is work work work = fun fun fun………………………..I’d love to have fun till the last day of mi life..:-)
No No No….cannot take off shoes and say ok = so much to do…& so little time….:)
pankaj khandelwal
awwwwwwwwww:( wish i had someone my side too..who would take life differently,who would like work ,but want keeping off it too….will there be no time when enuf becomes enuf at least where work is concerned???
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
Hi Jyoti…thanx for replying ….but i did wish i had someone who would agree that its really been enuf and would want the life to be off work ….Work can be fun but it does tend to take a lot from life,,,,would you want to say that work is life…and life without work is no fun…
Jyoti Shukla said:
pankaj khandelwal
Hi Vijay….regular jobs do have a sort of a compulsion ….but I meant to delve into the situation where after years of work ,one finally desires to go off work …maybe stay in the foothills of himalayas,or a chalet in the Swiss Alps….a retired life.. ….
Vijay Bhatt said:
Gaurang Bhatt
Pankaj/Vijay/Jyoti/Sanjay,
I agree with all of you. Being entreprenur is not rosy and fulfilling all the time.Most of the days you want to work all the time. Can’t wait on Saturday evening for Monday morning and get back to office (Kinda metaphor, you dont have to go to office to work), wake up at midnight and try something bothering you for long time. These times you want to work forever and want to die at work station (like thespians want it on stage).It is highly satisfying and fulfilling.
Then there are days where PMS kicks in (yes for men too), you are afraid to make calls, complete and send the proposals, can’t get out of bed even at 8 o’clock in morning and simply wants to retire but bank statement is not willing to allow that.What you do? laze around couple of days, procastinate, indulge in some serious self pity and self loathing. and then you are ready to go back to work.
My whole point is you can take off shoes and enjoy life in rest and happiness and keep them on spend the life same way. You can afford both because you are the BOSS.
pankaj khandelwal
Gaurang,,,,i kind of agree to what you have said.In fact thats what i think we all must follow whilst we are at the age when we ought to be working….Now that i have you at least agreeing to a temporary cessation of work…could you and others tell me if after we have worked for few decades ,could there be sometime in our lives when we can finally say to ourselves…Ok .i have worked enuf….so let me now relax and enjoy life .After all,those in jobs do retire ,don’t they….and we [those not in service] tend to go on and on and on ….
Gaurang Bhatt said:
pankaj khandelwal
Ah Sanjay…….how i wish i could share the best of chocolate with you .You kind of said what i have been feeling.Yes,life’s somewhat akin to that of a firefighter with a never ending fire here and there.One really tends to wish fire was never discovered…Thanx for the support….i was kind of feeling as if my hope to ‘take off my shoes’ was actually scandalous….[chuckle]
SANJAY DODRAJKA said:
Anushka Shroff
You Bet …It’s all work and fun together..at the end of the day, .its a great feeling…
Vijay Bhatt said:
Anushka Shroff
Thanks Jyoti…
Yeah…there’s lot to do in any “world”:) ……work and fun is forever and forever never ends….
Regards
Jyoti Shukla said:
Anushka Shroff
Pankaj
omg…”Retired Life” ?? there’s nothing like “Retire” :)..it doesn’t exist in the dictionary of life. ..
Does it ?
pankaj khandelwal said:
pankaj khandelwal
Anushka…. you say ‘work and fun is forever and forever never ends’…..What if I say work is enuf ..i have done my share of work…now it shall be fun forever ,and forever never ends…..[chuckle]
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
Anushka….yeah,even i think ,now that you mention it ,that the word ‘retire’ sounds so very governmentish….i’d rather too,erase that word off my dictionary…what about saying ‘hit the sack’ or ..like I said …’take off my shoes’…or simply ..vamoose from work at some point of time of life and just go play.
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
it is a great feeling at the end of the day Anushka…..but this feeling ,every day ,for many years….gets monotonous….maybe then ,just fun….
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
Alok ….your comments are awaited…..but others are also quiet on this….please do speak up
SANJAY DODRAJKA said:
Anushka Shroff
Hi Pankaj
Why are Alok’s comments awaited ???
Dont you know Alok is a very buzy person 🙂 ….and also selective 🙂
pankaj khandelwal said:
Anushka Shroff
Pankaj ji
Work is fun….and fun and fun……balancing act …work + fun …….!!!!
How can work be enuff..??? it’s never ending….lemme know
pankaj khandelwal said:
Anushka Shroff
How can the feeling of “Feeling good” or “Happy” get monotonous ? ? ? ? ? ?
pankaj khandelwal said:
pankaj khandelwal
yes Anushka…i don’t deny work is fun …but i want to know if there would be a time in life where one would want to have fun sans work….I don’t want to say that life should be fun ,fun and only fun …i am wanting to know that at some point of life,can we simply say ‘NO’ to work …workk ,which we have done all through our life till that date .
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
Anushka…i meant sometimes ,after years of work life begins to get monotonous….and then you might want to relax…
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
Ah well….Alok’s busy and selective…thank God at least you think my replies are worth being commented upon…thanx Anushka.Sanjay agreed to me so i thought i might as well show solidarity and support his request to Alok to comment….Maybe Sanjay too is not aware that Alok is busy and selective….
Anushka Shroff said:
Anushka Shroff
Yes of course… …every discussion on rodinhoods.com is equally important and worth being commented on…..each and every rodinhooder is important !!!
Cheers
pankaj khandelwal said:
Anushka Shroff
It’s your life…you can take the call 🙂
pankaj khandelwal said:
Anushka Shroff
Sanjay…
Here we are discussing about a “feeling” ….ie “feeling good” or “Being happy” and not about a product or commodity or music..:)
how can we get monotonous about a “feeling” which is an emotion ?? 🙂
SANJAY DODRAJKA said:
pankaj khandelwal
very well said Sanjay…..hats off to your examples….
SANJAY DODRAJKA said:
Munish Goyal
Hi Pankaj and all
Well, I am not in that stage where i look for retirement (lol, still less than decade in work) and mostly in a job.
But I want to ask, what are the top 3 reasons that your shoes are too sticky to remove. If i have to answer, i think it the own networth not enough yet will be the top reason. And then this ‘enough’ is subjective again, and probably keeps upping everytime.
Your views ?
pankaj khandelwal
Oh Yes,Munish ..you are absolutely right….its definitely subjective…but if one;s worked quite a few decades…and is wanting to sign off work…where’s the problem…but can we really do that is the question….or are we supposed to do that…cos life is just not work and work buddy…its relaxation and fun too.
Munish Goyal said:
pankaj khandelwal
‘feelings’ change with time too….so,this could be because they tend to become monotonous….
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
Thanx Anushka…but i’m not yet decided whether i should or shouldnt…whether i can or can’t…thats the reason for this discussion
Anushka Shroff said:
Ravi Kiran
Pankaj, I have just done what you have written. I worked for 20+ straight years in 2 large advertising companies, held many leadership roles, in India and elsewhere, and I said to myself mid last year the things you wrote in your headline. Finally, in end December, I jumped off the corporate management airbus and am floating mid air right now. I have met some very interesting people in the last 2-3 months, picking up on lost habits like reading non-e-books, surfing the web like there is no tomorrow, discussing the world, business and community with passionate people, and am enjoying every minute of it.
I get questions like “what are you going to do next” on a regular basis from people who car about me and I am enjoying telling each one of them “I do not know” with so much pride you would think I am sick.
I agree with a lot of stuff people have said in reply to your post and I think they are all right, as are you, in tour thinking.
Munish Goyal
Hi Ravi
Feels good to hear that. Actually i would like to say that everyone after some such long time feels strongly about taking a long sabbatical.
My uncle is a senior IAS officer, and after some 22 years in service, one day he was discussing with me his various thoughts on what to do next.. He had options like:
1. quit the prestigious job and be mid-air for a while
2. may be later join a private MNC, he had a very lucrative offer given. Many other civil servants do the same after long service or after retirement.
3. do some business
This stage was there for some months, but then shoes were too sticky , lol so he decided to put on till the next such thought process arives.
Ravi Kiran said:
pankaj khandelwal
Awesome Ravi…i like every word that you write and tend to agree with you in totality…..and i do hope you enjoy your time ….
Ravi Kiran said:
pankaj khandelwal
hi Munish….yes,whether one does go in for ‘ quits’ or not is a big question ,but that the thought does come in is good to hear …I just wonder if one can really take the decision ,but as Ravi says ,he is enjoying every bit of his ‘no work’ decision….i am certain its not too difficult to quit as and when one feels ‘its been enuf ”
Munish Goyal said:
Ashwin C Parulkar
I jusst brushed through all the post….if one compare humans with machines…then work and fun …in Anushkas context is mechanical..one needs to break that monotony even in deriving fun…or work
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
Hi Ashwin ,thanks for your views but would you want to say that ‘fun ‘ or ‘work’….both can become monotonous.If thats the case,then quitting work would be a great idea at a certain stage of life…but if ,as you say ,fun too gets monotonous….then its cross roads again at a later stage..or am i wrong in assuming what you want to say
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
Ashwin C Parulkar
Pankaj absolutely correct, well derived the meaning. there are many reasons surrounding the fun u derive
out of work or from pleasure..and no way it will repeat each time the same way..thts why one has to keep climbbing the ealier stimulus ..in work or fun
pankaj khandelwal said:
Anushka Shroff
Ashwin…
How can it be mechanical ? when you’re enjoying your work which is so much fun ? 🙂
What is there to get so monotonous ?
We shud be happy we are blessed with so much work…as we are able ….we have the abilities…
There are people in this world who are without work and some dont have the abilities,…:)
Your views ? pls
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
Ashwin C Parulkar
Anushka
Lets talk abt ur quote-
We shud be happy we are blessed with so much work…as we are able ….we have the abilities…
My thots are-
1.We shud be happy we are blessed with so much work…-Do you think th ‘so much work’ phenomenon remain same for all the time , take things like recession/melt downs, tech changes which is not in our hands
2.as we are able- again our abilities however we think, goes in picks and valleys, imagine a person say ‘detected with HIGH colestroll or as simple as comes across with a person with superior experiance/ knowledge and age
will it remain same
we have the abilities…- say if say a person works works and works and finds his weight completely out of contoll or his family life imbalance thn what
How can it be mechanical ? when you’re enjoying your work which is so much fun ? 🙂
What is there to get so monotonous ? –
My thot- its scary if it doesnot become monotonous it may be the sign that it has indeed become monotonous, like pavlovs experiment – u know an experiment where the light goes on ..th dog sulivates and then gets a bread the cycle goes on
a person may be working from 10 to 10 ,is it that he is working hard and having fun? I think exhaution and errosion will take him over.
best
Ashwin
Anushka Shroff said:
pankaj khandelwal
thanx Ashwin….i know its not simple to say quits to work at any given stage of life ,but yes,once the decision to quit,am sure one can build up life sans work …and yes,there are different ways to build up the enjoyment ,both in work and out of work….cheers !
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
Anupam Kumar Sinha
the day you decide and determine that happinness and inner satisfaction is greater than hefty job mechanism, you will never ask this question to yourself !!!
pankaj khandelwal
thanx Ashwin,it couldnt have been better….
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
pankaj khandelwal
Anupam,It might just not be as easy as it sounds.
Anupam Kumar Sinha said:
pankaj khandelwal
on second thoughts….will such a day ever come in anyone’s life?
Anupam Kumar Sinha said:
Ashwin C Parulkar
as Anupam has mentioned, what r we waiting for , probably that day never arives until some thing forcibly pushes
someone to decide to sell his ferrari!
pankaj khandelwal said:
pankaj khandelwal
I guess this could be more emphatically replied by those who have crossed 60-65 yrs of age and have had plenty work …i still have 8 years to go to reach 60…so ,maybe thats why i’m still not prepared to say or think quits….maybe at 60 !! or 65 !!!
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
Anushka Shroff
Hi Ashwin
My take on your views :
01.
Recession and melt downs are not in our control…Recession and melt down is an opportunity for creating more work..:) …actually coping up with recession distinguishes enterprenuers, leaderships ..etc emerges us as winners from the crowd and a platform for new growth……..
02.
This definitely is in our control….…Our fitness levels need to be high….and we shud take care of our health…again it’s a balancing factor…..living a healthy lifestyle and following a healthy diet with excercising everyday..gets “No Cholestrol” ….
When the mind and body is fit…..anyone can work 16 hours a day..!
03.
Again Ashwin..It depends how to take “work” as ….
It cant get monotonous…if there is “Creativity” in our “Work”…..Work is not only “Just work”…if we enjoy our work its fun…and never get exhausted ..it’s all in the mind…If you are passionate about your work…nothing takes you over….working hard is not always required..working smart is the key…!
04.
I mention the same thing….We need to balance our work and life…,then nothing goes out of control…& then nothing is scary !!!!!
To summarize…”Winners never quit and quitters never Win”…!
Regards
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
pankaj khandelwal
Hi Anushka…you do give thought provoking points .I just wanted to say that ,work is great till a certain age of any individual. After that age ,one tends to get physically slowed down and one does tend to have someone younger of the family taking care of the work…don’t you approve of someone stepping down from work at that period of his life..Even in services ,a certain age has been decided as retirement age.Look ,even at my age of 52 i’m looking forward to continuing to work but i do see a little bit of slowing down.Most of us do tend to complete our social obligations towards family et al by the sixties….why not relax then….or maybe earlier if every other aspect has been taken care of .
Anushka Shroff said:
Ashwin C Parulkar
Pankaj-‘Ignorance is bliss!!’ jst leave it…u hd a gud response to the thread …
pankaj khandelwal said:
pankaj khandelwal
Ashwin…agree with you ….to each hisher own i guess
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
Anushka Shroff
Hi Pankaj….It’s nice to live life by design and not default.
I respect your point of view.
pankaj khandelwal said:
pankaj khandelwal
Anushka, thanx for giving my discussion so much of your valuable time.As a surgeon ,I am sure I will never take my shoes off and call it quits….yet the thought does come once a while….Thanx again
Anushka Shroff said:
Ashwin C Parulkar
Pankaj- to be modestly put across every bodys time is valuable, in the end you decided not to take ur shoes off
thats a great news! Since Anushka is a surgeon her work is diff for each person she treats, so she is passionate
abt it and never feels to stop basicaly as long as u feel Driven , there is no need for taking once shoes off
pankaj khandelwal
Ashwin….slight correction ….i said since i’m a surgeon i might not be able to take my shoes off….but the thought does come once a while.I know time is vauluable for each one of us ,but at one point ,during this discussion ,someone asked for Alok’s views and I supported the request…at that point of time i was told Alok is a busy person and comments selectively….so i presumed i was the one with much free time….
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
pankaj khandelwal
Ashwin….slight correction ….i said since i’m a surgeon i might not be able to take my shoes off….but the thought does come once a while.I had said a goodbye to this thread after our last interaction ….Anushka’s reply came as a surprise after so many days,so i replied .Somewhere along this thread i was told about people being busy and selective in replying…. so I thanked her for ‘selecting’ my thread and taking time out to reply….
Ashwin C Parulkar said:
Anushka Shroff
oops..I guess i wrote too much…every after you conclulded…:)
pankaj khandelwal said:
pankaj khandelwal
no need to be sorry Anushka….i concluded doesnt mean others can’t have their opinions discussed if they so want….and I will respond …till this discussion is kept alive by anyone…
Anushka Shroff said: