"A man
tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after
him, and in that way he becomes immortal." - Big
Fish (2003)
Seems fascinating!
How you are not dead even when you are. One could argue that he/she has no life
when he/she stops having feelings. However, I differ from
this explanation. I think your life is not just about what you experience
but it is also about what people experience of you. Take Facebook for an
instance, now days it is being called a country in itself. People live in it!
Unlike meeting and greeting in person, people are expressing their feelings through a
comment / post / picture or if I may call a ‘story’. It is what they feel and
also what they want others to appreciate. People recognize other people on
Facebook through their stories. It is what they experience of each other.
It is
worth living if your stories last longer than you.
I work
in an analytics firm, as a sales associate, and my CEO tell me that I should be
able to deliver the sales pitch even when I am half asleep :) He doesn't mean
it literally!! He wants us to be familiar with the pitch so much that we become
the pitch. He wants us to feel what he does. I also remember reading a "10,000-Hour Rule" in a book written by
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers. He claims that the key to success in any field is,
to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around
10,000 hours. There is a common theme and a bigger message in both the examples.
It is about perfection! If you got to be perfect in something, the only way to
do is to become that something. We remember Gandhi
because of his peace! We remember Dhyanchand because of his hockey! We remember
Shakespeare because of his writing!
Another tangent to the
topic would be debating on whether to live for oneself or for others! Trying to
make people think well about you! Trying to do stuff that will make you
popular. Well, I certainly don't have an answer to that. People do live for
their parents, doing stuff they don't want to do.
All I would conclude is:
"Excel in something
so well that you could become an example... an example worth remembering".
-skalfaaz
