Perfect Inception

10 years from now…
Somewhere in heart of downtown Manhattan, you are standing on the 25th floor of this office building, looking down as the traffic snarl. Though lots of things are happening around you but at times you feel that you are alone in this concrete jungle. Your expensive suit is making you uncomfortable, though you are wearing it every day to work but still you are not used to it. Confused and bewildered you come back to your desk. You try to relax in that plushy and comfortable chair. Your office looks like a exquisite suite of a 5 star hotel. You have everything you’ve ever wanted in your life but still you are searching for something. Suddenly your Bvlgari watch started making this alarming sound as if your office is on fire, you stood up and started to search frantically in all your coat pockets and find something. This thing is nothing but a top, which you carry with you all the time. Slowly you put down the top on the table and without thinking for another second you started to spin the top on the table. You are looking at the spinning top as your life depends on it. The top keeps on spinning making you more nervous with each rotation. As you gasp for air the top starts to wobble and then it stopped spinning. You take a sigh of relief as you’ve narrowly escaped death. Wiped your face and then looked around. Suddenly everything starts to lighten up. Your lonely feeling is gone, you are happy. You started to feel all the things around you. The concrete jungle has now become the most happening city in the world. But wait your suit is still giving you a hard time…what the heck, you need to be more careful next time you go out shopping for a new suit. Who cares about the suit when your office suite is real, your position, your job, your salary, your bonus & your Bvlgari is real. This is not a dream as you are real.

Flashback:
You are feeling helpless right now. You cannot hide or run from it. If you have decided then you have to do it. There has been an incident of perfect inception. You have successfully implanted the idea of getting an MBA in your brain. This idea is now everything for you. Your life, career and your goals all depend on it. Your task started by doing diligent search for finding the best schools that fit your business education schema. You shortlisted some of the schools, decided what program you want (FT or PT), burned the mid night oil to excel in GMAT, carefully laid your strategy for the essays, choose your recommendations, gather your transcripts, evaluate your GPA. By the time you realize the time has come to submit your apps. Now you are waiting and waiting and one fine day you get the interview call. You think this is it and you made your plans to attend the interview. This is the time you’ve waiting for and spend all your energy answering the very questions you’ve been asked. This was the last step between you and your dream school. Nothing is in your hands now. You did what you can. Your mind has now become the battleground of thoughts, you are not able to sleep and you won’t be able to sleep till you get a definite yes or no from the school you’ve just applied. You are laying in bed and just day dreaming about your B-school, but wait what sound is that. The cheap 10$ Armitron watch is beeping on your night stand. You get up slowly and picked the top lying next to the worn out watch. You started to spin the top on the night stand and to your dismay it keeps on spinning & spinning & spinning ….

There are many people for whom it is a dream to get everything they’ve ever planned in life, they working hard to achieve that, for them the top is spinning. There are others who have everything they have ever wanted in their life but at times they could not believe it. There are many more, who are spending their life in a state of limbo. They have no specific goals or plans, very contended and accept their life the way it is.

This is what life is all about, some are dreamers, some are achievers and some are just plain & simple human beings. But for all of us the earth is spinning, the life is spinning but for me the top is spinning.

I dedicate this post to one of my favorite, the extremely talented and brilliant director - Chris Nolan. He is having such an unparalleled approach to the craft of film making, that every movie he has made has left a lasting impression. If tomorrow Mr. Nolan changes his mind and came up with an idea to enter porn business, I am sure people will line up to watch that as well on the big screen, as he may have made that using his own style and his very gifted brain.