Just a thought!!

As simple as this might sound, the question just left me speechless. I happened to enter into online web discussion with 5 of my closest friends. I have a panja club which exists since i was a kid. We all are the best of friends and by God's grace, all of us have completed our education from best of places. Our circle consists of five of us from INSEAD, LBS, Harvard, ISB and Wharton and today when we look back at things, we just smile at our childhood stories. Lots of things have changed, but through all of these we have remained together. We just thought we should talk and see what is the final take on life now that we have the neccessary tools to take it heads on. Among all of us, i have always been the least ambitious and follow my heart kind of person. I never topped my class, never tried to do anything which my heart did not approve of. Rest everyone is pretty much focused, ambitious and i must say that they have done best in whatever they have done, so have i. It was time to take the account on life.
Everyone had lots to tell. As the discussion turned to me, i was speechless, i just knew that i was happy or may be i have always been happy and i never thought why. I said i am happy and everyone started laughing, tell us something new Gary. I was like this is all i know about life. I just do what i feel like doing, i went to ISB coz i wanted to, i studied marketing and strategy coz i wanted to, i just took the time heads on when it came to job and adjusted with somethings, but then still i am happy because there are so many other things which cover up. And what else can i think?? If i am being asked what will i do 2 years down the line, i dont know or rather i dont care. I just know whatever i do, i will do in style and live life to its fullest. So, the news is that i flunked in one of those internal certification in my company coz i dint feel like reading 210 pages at the cost of movie or may be a walk with friend. People laugh, they think i cleared ISB and failed in internal certi, but yaar thats me. I never did anything i did not like to do, whats new, i dont care. With a loud laugh, everyone said you are just you and sometimes we wonder what makes you do everything so well in life despite your attitude to take things light. I dont know if i will do well in life or not, frankly it dsnt matter, in the end i must sleep peacefully and must have time to enjoy life.
Incidentally, all of us feel the same way. A friend of mine has now taken up social venture after working in high profile Ibanking job, another is a free lance consultant, other one has left job to do some free lance writing and yes we do have a fighter who owns a venture. In the end, what did we all do? We followed our heart. I just happened to ask the venture guy, so how many times did you use excel? Almost always, but in the end i follow my heart and it works, rather every time i do that, i think of you and smile. :)..
Sometimes, we all just wonder, whats so complicated about life. If you think something is right and if your heart thinks it is, your mind will put everything in it to make it right. Most of the decisions in life are not as complicated as we make them. I always feel that a decision taken with open eyes is as good as decision taken with closed eyes, in the end its all about how you work towards making it right. So, the thumb rule is- there are no plans in life, no one knows tomorrow, do what you think is best today and be open to face what comes next. I used to think a lot, but now i just know that anything that comes around me has to be good else it cant come this far. I know here is an element of arrogance that i carry, but then i just know that everything even remotely related to me has to be good else it could not have managed to find me. :)