Monday, December 28, 2009

Is there anything different in my life?

I just happened to think about what happened in my life or should I say what I have done. 28 years 10 months 13 days of my existence, by my philosophy, was a series of experiences one after the other one dependent on the other and falling out of the choices I have made.

I don't see anything unique. It was but a normal life with nothing different from the majority of the people. Getting educated and getting a good job only to go daily to a particular place and speak to same set of people, do the same work over and over, provide similar service to the same set of customers again and again. Even my Father had a similar life style of course with a better work-life balance.

If I have to select any past experience of mine which I can call unique, it might be difficult. I am sure that my experiences are shared by some person or the other in this world. Nothing that I have done is not done by anyone else. However, if I have to identify a person who had all the experiences similar to me and in that particular order itself, what would I conclude? A unique sequence of experiences that are derived from the choices made by me in the past. Every step in life is a choice we make. So, each of this would be made by our own selves. They make us (a person) and we make them (choices).

Another element of uniqueness would come in the way I have dealt with my experiences. The way I accepted or rejected them or loved or loathed them, what I picked up from them, what I concluded from them, the hours I spent thinking over them, recollecting them, reliving them. That would be unique. That would be me.