slides of my life..

My friends, people who make my life the great way it is..

I just came out from a great night out for Alex and Svenja’s house warming.. These guys are just awesome. They always get me red-bull, they know I like 7 up and they hold my drink although they I know I’ll never hold theirs.

The small level of details they think of is amazing. in his invitation, Alex said, I am getting sausage that is non-pork for you. And Svenja of course took good care to know there was 7up, red-bull and bread..  Long story short, Svenja asked me if Alex ever proposes to her, she would want me to go to Germany and take pictures at their wedding.. Well, there is a thing. first Elena invites me to her wedding in Spain and now Svenja wants me to photography their wedding.. I won’t miss it for the world.

The sad news is that, I’ll be missing my best friend’s wedding.. Baseel’s.. I really hope things will work out for the best, but if they don’t.. Then I may not be able to go to his engagement in mid July.

Anyway, there was something that give me my mid-life crisis couple of days ago that made me think..

Dude, I am 26, what I have done in my life so far.. Yes, I know those who are older are likely to be swearing at me saying, you’re only 26, I am late twenties or thirty-something.. Well, guess what, you were 26 couple of years ago and you came to life before I did.

I am 26, and yes, I am not feeling old, or have my mid-life crisis as AntonD said, but hey, every one of us goes through a period in time where they ask.. Where have I spent the past x years doing.. I am almost mid-something and I haven’t done what I dreamt of..

Well, I can’t remember now what triggered this in my head, but I looked back at what I have done and said, wow, I lived 26 years of my life, out of which I can say I am 100% happy on personal side, 80% from family side and that’s area of improvement and most importantly religious side which I am lacking way behind and should be a focus area.. But in my 24 hours per day, I spend 6 – 8 hours asleep and 8 – 10 hours in the office. That’s 14 – 18 hours of my day have gone on stuff that are out of my control. I only have 6 hours left per day, what I am doing in those.. Am I spending them wisely, I am just taking a lot of photos, or dancing salsa all the time.. It’s like a dirty math problem.  Well, regardless of what, where or whom I was spending those 6 hours with, I came to a very important conclusion.. I do not wish to spend those 6 hours with people who are not worth it.. What do I mean by that…!? People who have not contributed positively to my life, people who constantly do nothing but give you negative energy and pull you down, people who don’t know what they want in life and just like it that way, they wouldn’t listen to your advice and are there just to pull you back.. Yes, those are the kind of people I don’t want to waste my 6 hours on..

In the streets of Paris with Raavi..

when something triggered the decision that, I am 26. Oh man, I am 26. Do you know what that means, quarter of an era has passed and I am not sure if I have achieved what I want to do in life.. Thank God I am luck to have great parents, good friends, satisfying job, great religion and many other stuff that helps me keep going.. But hey, I am not getting any younger and my time is being wasted with people

Key learning: For every day that I will spend in my life for the rest of my life, I will only do what I feel like doing and I know is not giving me any negative energy.