The desire to…- ‘OS”
Posted by saij20 on April 14, 2008
9:56 AM - the desire to continue………..
Category: Life
Dessssiiiiiiire
Will there be the same desire for a thing after obtaining/achieving/learning/possessing it??
This morning while in the pool i noticed that many of the guys who joined the swimming course with me have stopped coming(yeah i am late learner,but its better than never). This made me wonder,why did they stop coming all of a sudden? was there no more fun in it for them?or was the purpose of their joining swimming acheived??. Well i dont what it could have been their reason,but, it certainly made me think along the lines that since all those people missing had learnt to swim completely they stopped , because probably they felt there was nothing else to learn there. Maybe ,the knowledge of having achieved it made the task or the thing( as i am reffering it) that much less fun or attractive.
This has made me think ,along a funny or odd way ,and that is i shouldnt learn swimming completely, that i should leave a little bit still to learn ,a little distance still to go,a little something left to achieve or strive for everyday, and hope that the my interest and desire to wake up at 5.30 am every morning is as strong as ever.I maybe wrong in this desire to be a eternal learner.
The purpose of my taking up swimming was to get some exercise for an otherwise lazy body daily and have the added benefit of learning a life saving skill,yeh also i find the gyms so boring and dull after a certain time.I need to see to it that i dont get bored of swimming, i am sure the moment i start seeing it as a task to do or a work to be done in the day /an exercise i will start being lazy again and get bored.So to keep that interest i am trying to keep it as new skill to be learned and stretch that learner’s interest and enthusiasm (which only the learners can have) as much as possible.
Stretching the above logic perhaps a little bit more into more serious matters in life than losing weight and getting exercise,i have noticed that (from among my friends and people i know) when a guy desires for a girl and thnks he is in love with her,he would do anything for her, pine for her attention,jeeeeeez the kind of things he can do for her ….well the point is the most of the time the girl is impressed and says “YES” to him and then for a few months well sometimes it could be a lil longer he behaves in the best possible way and makes her happy,but then once that new experience of being in love or whatever else it is has worn off he becomes a total stranger of what he was before she said yes and the first few months after that.One fine morning ,the girl realises that she was wrong in thinking she knew this guy more than anyone else on this planet,to her utter shock and dismay and much chagrin she realises that of all his friends she knows him the least.God !!!!! that can be a pretty devastating truth to realise.So is the guy bored ?or has lost interest ?because he has taken her presence in his life for granted / is it no more the desire to achieve what he didnt have in his life/ well what is it for this sudden change in attitude,thought and passion the desire…..
There are people who live their life with passion and desire all through ,but, then there always the above mentioned…..
