Back when I had just started in the industry, a senior colleague of mine had once told me that I should've been a model and that I was in the wrong profession. Some of us had gone on a trek and I was happily jumping from the rocks and showing off my climbing skills when he had said it, quite out of the blue. I was taken aback and didn't know how to respond. I wasn't sure how to take it; did he mean I wasn't doing my job well or was he complimenting me on my looks, which I considered nothing? The suggestion had annoyed me for some days.
These days, when I have trouble answering the question of what I'm doing, I look back and wonder if I should've chosen another profession. At any point in these years. But I've never been seriously talented at anything and all my dreams have been more like fantasies; coconut farming, becoming a detective or joining a theatre group and touring places...I've never even taken a step in their direction. May be the only consolation is that I can't regret anything.
These days, when I have trouble answering the question of what I'm doing, I look back and wonder if I should've chosen another profession. At any point in these years. But I've never been seriously talented at anything and all my dreams have been more like fantasies; coconut farming, becoming a detective or joining a theatre group and touring places...I've never even taken a step in their direction. May be the only consolation is that I can't regret anything.
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