Stay Blessed!

I have no idea what triggers me to write, but it is always a trigger.

Off late, I have been listening to the RJs while my travel to office and back from office to home, I feel ‘blessed are the people who can work or do what they love to do the most’. On that note I love to talk, but I can’t talk to laptop all through the day. lol.

I had been to a party this Friday and I see a gang of DJs (I was a part of this gang fortunately) dancing with one DJ playing the music standing on the top on a podium built for the console. I was never fond of or rather in the habit of listening to English music and looking at the passion, power and fun that these guys were having, I came out singing aloud , tonight’s gonna be a good night!!!! And again this feeling had hit me hard that ‘blessed are the people who can work or do what they love to do the most.’

I am going to list down some of the professions where I feel blessed are these people to work or do what they like to and are still minting money. Well it’s not always the money, but more important is the satisfaction, peace and happiness they get! I may be right, I may be wrong also as we say grass is always greener on the other side.

Gym instructors: Man!! All they do is to train people and be fit themselves and doing that they get money. As I everyday wait at Sankey signal for more than 3 minutes (waiting time),I see people gyming at the gym which could be seen from there. I seriously feel jealous. I am sitting inside the car honking at other vehicles and they are blissfully interacting with people, keeping themselves fit and enjoying their work.

Movie review writers: They get entertainment and their organizations pay them to go and watch movies! Bet you can’t be at a better place if you are a movie lover! You are blessed is all I can say. Well I can also put book review writers in this category but time taken to write a review is longer, which doesn’t matter as long as a person loves to read and write.

Dance teachers: I used to learn dance when I was a kid and I believe most of us have learnt as kids, but only few of them get the opportunity to take that up as a career. I can put artists and musicians also in this category. No doubt the monetary back up is needed until a person establishes themselves but more important is how passionate are you to really take that up as a career.

Play cricket and earn: Well not just cricket but all the sports like badminton or tennis. However this isn’t an easy one as my hubby (part of under 14 Indian cricket team) tells his stories about the training and sessions before and after the match. Well nothing is easy in that case, but the sportsmen still get paid to play. It is also true that you have to be in the right country in the right sports which I believe is a bit of luck as well. How many of us would wait for sports (PET) class during the school, but only few may have the guts to take up coaching or training for a sport as a career. For the rest it is a 45 min class which gets over as we finish schooling.

Cartoonist: Well I am not sure how much this professional is valid in today’s digital era, but still all they have to do is to create something creative. The Amul adds always makes me wonder that “how creative the team should be to come up with idea then and there when something (good or bad) happens”.

Photo journalist: When my sister was in the profession of journalism, one of her photo journalist friend would come home, eat and talk about it. All he has to do is to click. He loved photography there he was looking at pics clicked by him in the newspaper the following day. Well we can also include wedding photographers as that’s a booming business but blessed are the photographers who love to click and get paid well for that.

Well these are few which came to mind and there could be many more. As it is said that “Do what you love to do and love what you do”. Most of us don’t have a choice but to love what we do as we fall into the second category.

Hence I would call them blessed who get to do what they love to do!! No, they are not confined to 4 walls of their cubicles; most of them don’t bother about the pay cheques at the end of the month as they live each day and every day is a new challenge .Something more creative, some more fun is always in store for them. They do not look at the watch for the day to get over as they are doing what they love to do. Stay Blessed!