Thursday, January 04, 2007

Clutch your Life

It has been on my mind for quiet sometime now and i have thought quiet a lot about it. Now this
was during the time when i was learning how to drive a four wheeler that this idea struck me. We all have driven a vehicle at some point in time or the other. One peculiar thing about a two
wheeler or a four wheeler is that they employ the concept of clutch . Now we all know that when
the clutch is operational or more so when it is pressed the vehicle is under free wheeling motion and it tends to go faster than when under the influence of the clutch. Let us try to draw a comparison
between two seemingly unrelated things. Let us assume that the human body is like a vehicle.
Now we know at there are various factors that influence our behaviour and the choices we make in our life. We
may be greatly influenced by the society that we live in or may be our family has greater
influence in deciding what we end up doing in life. Also it can be the case that being human i would like to emulate my role model if i have any. From this we can conclude that at any point in time our actions are not independent, they are a result of a collusion of various such forces that are acting together to influence the outcome of the decision. Now there has to be a primary force amog these and all the other forces have to be secondary. Primay force is the main motive for pursuing that desired goal and the other secondary forces are the external factors that influence you to pursue that goal. For example I might want to learn dancing because i donot know how to dance which will be the primary force but if i say that dancing is good for health or i want to learn dancing because all my friends are doing it then these will come under secondary forces . Though the secondary forces are genuine but they donot motivate you enough to classify as the primary force.These type of various forces that help us decide in favour of or against a decision act like clutches in their own way . Yes i agree to the fact that without taking anything into consideration and deciding in favour of something would be foolishness( that is opting to do a certain task without deciding whether there is some value addition or not to be gained from it ). Then there is the will of our parents who want us to pursue something which we donot want to. This can again be classified as a secondary force . This article necesarily focuses on the affect of the secondary forces and not the primary forces on our life. The primary force will motivate us enough to pursue our goal , for example, i want to be a successful CEO of a multi national company for which i need an MBA degree which inturn can be acquired only when i get through a good business school. Now to get into a good business school i need to appear for any of the management entrance exams. The primary force acting here is that i want to be a succesful CEO . Some of the secondary forces that are influencing this situation are as follows : Preparation for the management entrance exam, unnecesarry worrry about the difficulty of the exam, managinig my own work/studies while preparing for the entrance and other such forces . Now if the preparation for the exam is done keeping in mind that the candidate wants to be the
CEO and not worrying factors such as the difficulty of the exam, the competition faced by other students etc then it is guaranteed that the candidate will be able to perform far more effeciently
in thein the exam. What i want to communicate is that we shoud clutch all the secondary factors that tend to
influences our life in negative way and let the life move freely on the accelarated road powered
by the positive energy.Let the life go on its own way and donot constraint it with unnecessary clutter .


3 comments:

twist knob said...

some philo dude.... keep up the good work..

Unknown said...

very thoughtprovoking for sure..amazing piece of work..do well..

Tinu said...

itni philosophy sirf gaadi chalaate chalaate soch li!!...baap re!!..hehehe...neways nice article!keep it up!:)