In order to know what you want in life you should know what you don't want.
Ten out of ten times we all know what we don't want. We are very clear about it.
Then shouldn't be it simpler to just go out there and get what we want since we already know what we don't want?
If that is the case then we should all be very happy because we will always have whatever we want - simply because the minute we know what we don't want, we would rectify the situation and go get what we want. Once we have what we want then we are happy. (It might seem complicated but it is not)
But in the real world it doesn't happen that way.
We know what we don't want. But we still don't get what we want, simply because we don't do anything about it.
Today, I met many interesting women doing different things in life and expanding the Universe in their own way. Aruna Newton, the woman in the photograph, was one of them.
She is an Infosys employee and also the secretary of Electronics City Industries Association. And till date I didn't know that the Elevated Road/expressway (to be opened soon), connecting Electronic City to Silk Board junction in Bangalore (clearing major traffic hurdles) stemmed from this one woman doing something about what she wanted.
Everyday Aruna and scores of others working in Electronics City would undertake a long arduous commute to work. She realized that the quality of her life was suffering. In her own words, "When I left for work my children would be asleep and when I returned home from work they would have already gone to bed." Aruna knew she did not want to live this kind of life.
When she was telling her boss how difficult this commute was for all of them, he said, well then do something about it. And she did.
She gathered around 2000 women working in Electronic City and walked up to the Chief Minister's residence and presented their case. An elevated road/expressway at the cost of 450 crores was sanctioned.
Aruna added more work to her portfolio - she began monitoring the project, bringing together various bodies, ensuring that the traffic was not affected during the building of the road, liaised with various government bodies, traffic police and what not.
Her employers supported her but were very clear that she should be doing this work on her own time. The hurdles were many -but she crossed each one of them successfully. Today, the men who resented her for being a woman and stepping on their toes respect her.
One woman recognized what she didn't want in life, identified what she wanted and went out and got what she wanted. And that expanded her world and the Universe a little bit more.
Contrasts in life are not always bad, because they show us the way!
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