The Dream

How do we define fulfillment? We find fulfillment when we find meaning in things we do? How do we go about finding meaning in a 9 to 5 corporate job. There are occasional smiles at the end of a certain time period or maybe there isn't any of that. That isn't essentially bad news but it is just like life. It keeps going on. How then do we find meaning especially outside work? I see people chase other goals. Traveling the world. Are you traveling to experience or is it letting you tick your bucket-list of places you want to cover because of popular opinion? People work out and want to stay fit. What happens once that's done? People take part in marathons. It's a new kind of purpose just like the bucket-list of places. Each one of these things strike me as shallow. It isn't surprising that people who indulge in the above are usually married with 1 or no kids. The ones that aren't married are busy trying to get to the point of a relationship and eventual marriage. ...

Where were we before we hid behind sepia and black & white  our sentences were interrupted by chimes And the most important light came from a notification  Where were we before We defined our likeability by likes We had more than 140 characters to say We spoke in words rather than cartoons Where were we before Loneliness got replaced by the virtual Our friends became display pictures  Their stories only last a day Were we happier then When we thought about people And waited a long time to tell them Rather than feeling them in black font on a white screen We weren't happier then We missed and longed and met and rejoiced Today we meet and are disappointed because The person is nothing like what the display picture said