Just the other day a simple innocous question asked by one of my friends set me off deliberating. What am I passionate about ? Am I following what my heart and mind desires ? Now on the veneer it would seem to be quite an easy to answer question, but when I looked deeply I was not quite sure. I have managed to create and run a fairly successful small business, and as a first generation entrepreneur I can safely say that it was the passion to achieve something that set me going. Yes for 15 years I have labouriously slogged to get to where I am today. But is it what I really wanted to do or was it merely following the Darwanian theory of survival et all.

Reflecting back I am not quite sure. Have I been in control of my life thus far or has life driven me on its own charted growth with me being just a passenger. My early years were never charted of that I am pretty certain. I managed to finist schooling in a stream which was not my forte at all. However, after that I switched to a subject which was again everything but out of choise. Then the decision to join the Armed Forces was never a greatly deliberated one. After going through the motions of the Training obtaining a commission, and deciding within the first year itself that I would stay on only for the stipulated period of 5 years.

I think the first deliberated choice that I made was when I decided to become an entrepreneur. Yes besides the usual rollicking of the life in the Army, this was one decision that set me going. There were the usual troughs and crests but all through the tempest of establishment I enjoyed doing what I was doing for the first time in my life. The usual transformational changes have taken place and the need to be creative and keep creating new vistas and avenues is what I am truly passionate about. I would want to take my chances. I have never gambled in the conventional sense but I feel that I have been gambling with life all this while. Taking chances …