Changes - 5. Take chances!

Rememeber Step 5 - Take chances from my previous post 39 Ways to live and not merely exist a new challenge to me?

 

"5. Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?"

 

Well I took a chance today - I quit my corporate job! My official Facebook post below:

 

"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. Courage is quitting my corporate job today and finally having the freedom to do my own thing - how and in what form I do not know yet, all I know is that my life will be the better for it. No more maintaining the status quo - why follow when you can lead!"

 

True it says I'm not sure what I will do - well its not entirely true...I managed to negotitate a consultancy role with my current employer for awhile and I will be assisting in growing our Family business. If you had to ask me whether I am scared, yes would be my first answer! However I have a calmness over me. I have a sense of freedom to define my own destiny. Something which I am realising more and more is that no matter how much I try and be one of the followers, the Corporate world will never be my master. There are way too many egotistical minions who don't see the bigger picture.

 

Logic questions why maintain the status quo? Who has defined that status quo? More importantly what is the status quo?

 

"Jumping in your car at 6am in the morning, spending an hour in traffic, sitting behind your desk 8 hours or more hours a day stroking the sensitive egos of your collegues, returning home in traffic another hour and repeating the process the next day?"

 

It deeply disturbs me to see people stuck in this rut, I guess its is true about myself as well. You get stuck in a routine that dominates your life and before you know it rules ever single aspect thereof. You are throughly consumed living on the adrenalin that stress pumps into your viens 24 hours a day. Humankind has become like one huge flock of mindless sheep, have a look at the congested Highways in the mornings, the impact that the popular brands have like Apple - are we creating a society of followers and no individuals any more? We have become desensitized as humankind?

 

All I know today I took a chance and this will be me documenting my Life of not merely existing but for once actually living!