I watched a video of Guy Kawasaki's talk at Stanford Entrepreneurship program in which he described how he got into Stanford, his work at Apple and bunch of other things related to entrepreneurship. In his talk, he shed light upon his current life as opposed to his life at Stanford. While at Stanford he used to watch all these exotic, expensive cars drive by, from the basket ball court and would wish them for him. Years later, now he has expensive cars and other riches but he confessed in the talk that he'd rather have the life where his problems were - the project/assignment he has to finish, the exam he has to study for, the score he needs to get, etc., and not the problems he has as an entrepreneur. This comes back to me now and now I am thinking I wish my problems were - which programming language to learn, how to program something at work, which technology to spend time on, etc., and not the problems I have with my married life - how to convince her, what next step to take to have a stable income, when to have kids, where to buy a house, how to deal with the new relatives, etc. aah I wish.
On those lonely days in the past, I was trying to find stuff to do to kill the time. I thought that was a problem and now I wish that be the problem for me and not what I have now.
Now that I think of how life works, it seems we always have problems no matter what but we'd rather be solving problems that we like. Well, thats a contradicting statement - like-able problem. But I think that's the interesting part. You only figure out that you liked a problem looking back and not at the current moment. Does that mean all we can do is wish for like-able problems? I don't know. I'm just saying. I think the mind is never content with the present situation and it keeps comparing to the past or hoping for a better future. Who knows after a while, I might wish the current problems than the then problems? You never know. For now, just live with what it is. Well, there is no alternative either. Just as summer springs after spring, hoping to see that sunny day after this storm.
Hope.
On those lonely days in the past, I was trying to find stuff to do to kill the time. I thought that was a problem and now I wish that be the problem for me and not what I have now.
Now that I think of how life works, it seems we always have problems no matter what but we'd rather be solving problems that we like. Well, thats a contradicting statement - like-able problem. But I think that's the interesting part. You only figure out that you liked a problem looking back and not at the current moment. Does that mean all we can do is wish for like-able problems? I don't know. I'm just saying. I think the mind is never content with the present situation and it keeps comparing to the past or hoping for a better future. Who knows after a while, I might wish the current problems than the then problems? You never know. For now, just live with what it is. Well, there is no alternative either. Just as summer springs after spring, hoping to see that sunny day after this storm.
Hope.
