So what does one do post an intense mba education and faced with two months of utter, total, absolute free time sans academic tensions and responsibilities?
It depends. Classic mba answer, but really it depends. Depends on the person I guess. I feel empty. Not the first time I feel empty. But this emptiness is unlike anything else. Days upon days of free time. And no motivation whatsoever to do anything. Tacked by a colourful pin on the notice board right in front of me are little paper notes containing among other things lists of places of historical significance in Ahmedabad I wanted to visit, ideas that I think should be written down before they disappear from my memory, address of a friend in China to whom I promised to write a snail mail some months ago, lines from a wedding invite and my new year resolutions. All the notes in themselves are actionable causes. Sample the note which reads '"Idea #1. Dating/friend matches on I-pod (accessory)." Cryptic as it is, it is inspired by an article I read in the technology section of the NYT. It is not a direct lift off, of course, but a modification of the original idea and which I think has the potential to take off (as in be a financial/popular success). I did not elaborate on the idea. Perhaps I should. It is tacked to the board by a bright, cheerful yellow pin and is at eye level. The note is tantalising in that it only gives so much and nothing else.
I am faced with an enormous vacuum right now. Perhaps this is how it must feel in a limbo. Lose track of time, days and the purpose of life. Leading an existence a notch below that of 'intelligent' human being's. An animal's existence, I was going to say.
Movies, books, music, computer games, chai with friends, dinners with friends, library-nothing seems able to hold my attention. I think I need a game changing mood changer. An engagement with the target audience at an extraordinary level. Ordinary things are no longer engaging. And I need this game changer fast, before I implode from inaction. This is energy that needs an outlet, a force that needs an action.
It depends. Classic mba answer, but really it depends. Depends on the person I guess. I feel empty. Not the first time I feel empty. But this emptiness is unlike anything else. Days upon days of free time. And no motivation whatsoever to do anything. Tacked by a colourful pin on the notice board right in front of me are little paper notes containing among other things lists of places of historical significance in Ahmedabad I wanted to visit, ideas that I think should be written down before they disappear from my memory, address of a friend in China to whom I promised to write a snail mail some months ago, lines from a wedding invite and my new year resolutions. All the notes in themselves are actionable causes. Sample the note which reads '"Idea #1. Dating/friend matches on I-pod (accessory)." Cryptic as it is, it is inspired by an article I read in the technology section of the NYT. It is not a direct lift off, of course, but a modification of the original idea and which I think has the potential to take off (as in be a financial/popular success). I did not elaborate on the idea. Perhaps I should. It is tacked to the board by a bright, cheerful yellow pin and is at eye level. The note is tantalising in that it only gives so much and nothing else.
I am faced with an enormous vacuum right now. Perhaps this is how it must feel in a limbo. Lose track of time, days and the purpose of life. Leading an existence a notch below that of 'intelligent' human being's. An animal's existence, I was going to say.
Movies, books, music, computer games, chai with friends, dinners with friends, library-nothing seems able to hold my attention. I think I need a game changing mood changer. An engagement with the target audience at an extraordinary level. Ordinary things are no longer engaging. And I need this game changer fast, before I implode from inaction. This is energy that needs an outlet, a force that needs an action.
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