Decade of life - time to introspect

It has been a decade since I have come out of my college. Lately I have got some time for myself and that is when I realized that till now I was not living my life with a "game-plan" but I was merely doing small bits of "contribution" to the grand social-system to enhance it economically and technologically.

So back to the original question - how much time did I really spend thinking and talking to/about mylself in last on decade. Looks to me that it is very minimal. Life seems to have been like a script written by some great director somewhere whose sole motive was to keep me busy - utilize max bandwidth cycles -> as they call it in our industry. Probably I am also the script writer for some more folks in my life that includes my co-workers or my family.

Isn't it true that society, corporations and governments in general just don't want anyone on the face of this earth to *stop* and then think about himself and what his/her priorities are , what he/she loves. They call it "Idle minds". These various influences would try their utmost to utilize the small "processing engines" called brains in most efficient/loaded manner towards the "grand plans" or "grand agendas" they have.

Finally you are sometimes a small pawn and sometimes a king-maker. As I recently heard in one of the movies, once the game is over, both the pawn and the king have to go into the same box.

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