Career message from Ode on a Grecian Urn

Have you ever asked the question as why do you want whatever you want in life?  The question has a very deep sense of meaning and only when everyone asks such question, they could find or reach the true answer.  The ‘want’ can be born from within or would have been due to others.  Any way, people have to differentiate the genesis of their want or desire. 

Every desire or want compel us to fulfill it.  Generally some people may gallop to meet their wants while some may remain inefficient & helpless and live a life in sorrow or complain.   Whether you gallop to fulfill your desire or remain helpless, they allow and accommodate sorrow to surround them.  Even when one achieves his or her desire; again the same sorrow is going to follow them like a shadow.

Why then one try to achieve something or have achieved something or remain with no effort to achieve anything, all of them will become sad at the end?  The answer is very simple as the effort to achieve or achieving or not putting any effort to achieve is only a process.    When someone claims that they have achieved something, they are only talking about the process and not talking about the product.

People derive enormous pleasure in narrating the story of how they have achieved the success than about what the success mean to them or how they see the success and what they wish to convey to others about their success. 

The unfortunate part of every success is that the people always relate their success to the external world and love to show it to others.  What is seen will carry less respect than what is unseen or unheard.  That is why Keats said in his poem ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn that ‘heard melodies are sweet and those unheard are sweeter’.  Once people have seen your success means the thrill is gone.  But interestingly, what people have seen as your success, your ‘self’ has not usually seen or appreciated.   Hence your success always remains more interesting or appealing to you than to others as you have been always busy in showing it to others than seeing it for yourself. 

With time, people around you may loose interest in your success as it become very mundane and past.  This insensitivity of people can hurt you deeply.  This is what happens to all the achievers.  Instead of feeling proud and happy about their achievement they feel sad and depressed as others are not recognizing it anymore. 

One need to verify and ask to ones’ own ‘self’ very sincerely as to what extent it is true to them.        

Let your achievement/success mean something to you first than how people around you may view or define it.