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‘Moan’ologue: Just fed up with how people feel “Pseudo-Inspired” by pioneers and visionaries across the globe. Everybody seems to recite somewhere deep down the bottom of their abyss called heart, “Stay hungry…Stay Foolish”. In all possibilities they will live a life of a fool until death does them and their body apart.
The ruckus and ripples created by the great minds of the world seems to have reached every common man across the globe – thanks to the evolution of internet. As any visionary/pioneer would, the likes of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Nikola Tesla have opined statements that would give you hair raising moments – if not orgasmic moments. But have you ever wondered why we keep repeating “Golden Words” of few people and by few people I mean a number that can be counted (say around 50 people)? To put a spin around it and showing it mathematically almost 99.9999% of the populace seems to looking up to 0.0001% of the people in the globe (or at least we pretend to).
Only successful people give such statements (which is quite obvious) – I mean, why not? Usually history is always written by the winners and not the losers. Have you ever noticed that most of these statements are made on hind sight and not actually forward looking ones (may be except for Nikola Tesla)? What if they had failed? Obviously, they wouldn’t have got the stage to express themselves.
Now the point is not about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs aka the 0.0001% about whom we are obsessed about. It’s about the remaining 99.9999% we should, actually, be worried about. Let’s be honest, every one of us at some given point of time have had a m/billion dollar idea which we couldn’t make gain fruition. Well the reason could vary from laziness (which forms the majority of the excuse) to risk taking appetite (could be majorly due to family reasons). But all had a CHOICE to take. At some point of time, you chose to sleep than to work on a prototype; you weighed the option of monthly salary against innovating and chose the former; you chose to go to the latest flick than investing time and effort on your idea. It could be the wrong choice, nevertheless, you made one. If you made a choice that kept you happy for that particular moment then it was worth it. Period. When you look back upon your life graph – you shouldn’t have troughs of sadness. You are better off thinking that your life was worth the while.
You owe the world something, surely. But you owe your world. If each one can manage to keep their world (which could be family, friend, social circle) happy, then the world has been contributed to. This need not come from innovating an “Industry Disrupting” product nor by becoming a m/billionaire. It could come from ensuring that your kid gets the necessary time he/she deserves; it could be from making sure that your mom gets a holiday that she deserves; it could be buying a kindle for your dad who is a voracious reader; it could be……well you get the hang of it;
It’s okay that you are not a pioneer; it’s okay that you are not a millionaire; it’s okay that you have the life that you are having now; it’s about coming in terms with what you have. If you believe that you are not capable of being a visionary you are, in all probability, right. And that’s okay. You don’t have to be a renowned person in the world. You need not give 50% of your billion dollars to NGOs to feel charitable. It is okay to stay contended; You only listen from the 50-100 voices who have made world changing contributions – what you haven’t heard are the voices of 100,000 voices who have failed by following the pioneers. They not only failed their life – they failed their world. Remember – pioneers don’t follow; they always made the smart decisions; so staying smart isn’t always wrong.