Have fun!

            Have you ever wondered why people are just weird? The scientists, comedians and all those nerds we teased in school; why didn’t they just give in? Some probably give in but the quota am interested in is that of the proudly weird people. People like Steve Wonder, Albert Einstein, Wangari Maathai. They probably had hearts of rocks, but after long contemplation, I realized how they can afford to be so irrational. It’s simple, they enjoy what they do, or did.

            Enjoying means feeling excited about a task day in, day out. Everything else becomes noise, just noise. Noise about low statistics of succeeding, noise of how it is important to be ‘normal’, noise about how boring stuff has guaranteed success. Only excitement can build a strong wall against all this noise. It was really easy when we were young to just be engrossed in stuff we really liked. Then we grew up, chose careers everyone else told us to choose, before we know it; bills arrive.

            There is a concept known as resonance in Physics. In technical terms it means a system (or rather) an object oscillates with greater amplitude at some frequency; the natural frequency of that sytem. In English, it means at some frequency, a system (or in this case a person) will get too excited that it won’t matter who’s watching (or laughing for that matter).  We all have different natural frequencies hence we resonate to different things.

            Most people go through life doing things they don’t like, hoping the big break will somehow materialize or just  because it will look good on the CV . What if I told you that the break is not a miracle but a decision. In school we were just forced to study every subject under the sun. I hated it but I now know why; Natural frequency. The point was to realize one’s natural frequency and once you get it, you stick to it. Life is short; I know how cliché that sounds but it is sadly reality. It takes at least 10,000 hours to be an expert in anything, that is at least 417 days in undistributed focus on an activity and these hours don’t come around very often. Here’s the real deal: Stop going with the flow and perfect a skill you actually care about. The best time to enjoy is now, not tomorrow, not in the near future; that one has a story of its own.

            On his deathbed the politician Aneurin Bevan said “I want to live because there are a few things I want to do." Trust me when I say life is short even for the seemingly accomplished people.  Life is amazing, even though it is short, every step of the way is meant to be enjoyed. Have fun!