Three Friends, Diverse Stories and One Lesson

Three friends meet over the cup of coffee and some nicely made sandwiches.

It is a typical “friends meeting” with no specific agenda. They start talking about their lives, how they navigated through their careers, struggled and found their way through.

They narrated their personal stories of triumphs, tribulations and a constant inner struggle that goes on during those formative years. They shared major change events, turning points in their lives/careers, complexities and uncertainties. These stories helped them understand each other at a deeper level, but it also extended a common realization.

What these stories narrated was our ability as human beings to deal with uncertainty. When we pass out of school and then graduate, we are surrounded by possibilities. These possibilities and related uncertainties forces us to bring out our best. We work through that maze to find something we love doing or something that we are successful at. Success breeds more success and we start growing in our personal lives and climb up the career ladder.

With this growth comes comfort and certainty. We love this comfort and get used to predictability in everything we do. We want things to be done in a certain way and the element of “exploration” is almost dead. Along the way, we may become too timid to take risks, explore the unknown and work our way out through a maze.

Three friends, diverse stories and one realization – let our growth NOT become a barrier to possibilities that lie within us. Let us remain agile, alert and awake to everything that provides deeper meaning, satisfaction and joy to us.

It turned out to be the time well spent.

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