What Is There In Defining Yourself??
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What is there in defining yourself??

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I really don't know how many of you will accept not labelling yourself as someone for a whole life.Like a software engineer,a scientist,a doctor,a farmer,a writer etc etc.

My friends' parents(even my father) used to say my daughter will become a....,.....,....,....In fact I could never figure out how can I be an engineer,a researcher or whatever describing myself by the work what I do with one label for all the moods of mine.When there is a sunny day of monsoon I cannot feel like even think of myself as a duty bound employee in an organisation.I just feel myself like a beauty bound viewer of God's creation.How can we be an engineer or a scientist or whatever we are because of the profession what you do all a life??

 

I never understand when people ask me what are you now.My answer has been for years 'enjoying my life and learning'.It has not changed for last many years.But now as it is the time to label myself as some professional I think and rethink should I call myself by the name of the company I am working for or by the degree I hold or by the plans that I am planning for the future.

As I think more and more I feel I fear I can never label myself with any of these.May be because I fear this deprives me of the small joys that I access openly from any kind of frinds group.I don't want to limit my friends group to be all engineers or all scientists or all my collegues etc.I wish to be the same old me who shared friendship with my friends at all stages of my life.May it be my friends who used to play with me in muds and water or may it be my friends who kept awake to crack the behaviour of strange protein during the research.

I believe the labelling of the person might give respect for many of us.But what I feel is that is the major reason for our isolation from free flowing of the friendship around us.That was the only reason for the 4 divisions in Hinduism in history.When I use this religion name I feel I don't believe this kind of partion too.I just want to open my arms,ears and eyes to whatever good is.

Like the clear water,to have the property to dissolve and purify;like the glass to protect and still allow the view of the world,if covered on one surface to reflect whoever peeps into it. etc are the best things I quote to set a model for the personality or attitude.

May be feeling ourselves with some labels reminds us our responsibilities.Like the people like me who forget at times our labels thinking of our labels reminds that we cannot escape from some of the duties.May be I would say the otherway a mother who wants to enjoy some serials or some book or a dinner outside will cook food for her kids thinking that feeding kids is her duty(and she loves it too).

So I think and rethink and find myself little confused 'labelled or not labelled'.It goes to the extent of not writing the name of my favourite actor's name too.(Should I label myself as a fan of Aamir Khan or do I like to watch someone else as I enjoy most of the movies).The movie example was just an example,but the pattern of question while deciding and defining myself seems like impossible thing.

So for the question of my dear friend Rajesh Ji for the previous blog I really love to read all the good books and it has been limited to the books that are available in English because of the limitation of the language that I can read and comprehend fast.I love to read R.N.Tagore but only the translations.So I always ask my friend on this same platform Bijaya Ghosh to translate and give me an opportunity to read them.I feel only reason why English literature is read more is because of the language and not because of the country from which the author hails himself.

So now I thank my friends here for making me think from their views on the sentences and statements of mine which I would not have thought so much otherwise.Now I realize that 'its always good to express not because others will know you,but because you will know yourself more.'Thank you friends and now its the time to go and read Paulo Coelo's 'Like the flowing river',a collection of beautiful stories.Good evening now and a short bye till I can come back next time.


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