Break the complexity

Analogies demystify life. They help us to simplify the complex, and/or make the abstract concrete. Human minds can accept arguments much more easily when comparisons are drawn with things they already know about. You can use analogies to disseminate information to an audience that hardly knows about what you are talking or to an audience that knows/but doesn't agree with your viewpoint or use them to explain some abstract principles to yourself. Life becomes very difficult when we cannot explain why facts are facts and why some popular theories are accepted as facts. Some of our greatest theories in science came into light because scientists drew analogies with what they saw(Newton's laws of gravity, Archimedes principles ..).

I don't have the sharpest brain, take time to understand new ideas and concepts, but make a great attempt to typecast a new idea/concept to something that I already know of. I like drawing parallelisms between life and what I see. I explain life through work and work through life. One such thought struck me today on my way back home. I am usually a "left-lane" guy (although I don't drive that fast), but today on my way back home, I was stuck in the "right lane". On a 60mph speed limit road, I was driving at 40 mph. Try as hard as I might, I couldn't get to the faster lanes. Cars were whizzing past me and I was just looking at them. This reminded me of something that I was always told when I was going to kickstart my career. People advised me to join a company that was in a growth mode, a company where I could learn a lot and move forward. I took the advice and went and joined a startup where I gained some very valuable knowledge apart from a direction for my career. The company I was in when I moved was a "big" company and I was just an employee lost in the crowd out there. If I had carried on with that job, I would have been in the "right lane" forever. It would have become increasingly difficult for me to go forward or move to a faster lane as I would have been restricted by the growth of the company. Faster lanes are always good if you are 'within the limits' (read 10%/10mph higher than displayed :)). Easier to shift to a slower lane if you ever wanted to..You can go(grow) fast, reach your destination faster. Ofcourse, it is fraught with the risk of an accident/burn-out, if you go just too fast! Slow lanes are good if you want to play it safe and enjoy your journey without much concern for going fast/rising to the top. I would strictly advise people starting their careers against it...

I am in the middle lane now and am trying hard to get onto the left..The going is tough, but I am tough too. I know I will be there soon, but had I been in the left lane, things would have been so much easier. Life and it's spectrum of choices. We have to be careful about what we choose and what we don't!