Why you choose to do something? - This question has been popping in front of me quite frequently. Does everything you do needs to fall on the path of your highest ambition. If it is so that means you can predict what the future holds in store. This is something impossible. In-fact life is like an improvisation comedy, where people(improvisers) create a whole drama on the spur of the moment. They use audience suggestions to guide the performance instead of a written script. Life is almost same which surprises you every-time with something new, something you had never planned for and in that case you don't always act to achieve your bigger goal. Had Gandhiji thought of become the 'father of the nation' or was he always wanted to lead the fight for the independence of nation? He was chosen for this role by people. What he did is that he fought for his own esteem. He started Non-Cooperation Movement if he had planned for this as a child he would have never went to England to become a barrister.

After saying so much the question arises are all those people who plan for future should stop planning? They just sit and wait for future to act for them? Its not like that one should always have a plan but must also be ready to act according to situation. You are free to choose your aim and the path to achieve that but you should also keep yourself ready for the obstacles that will come in between. Even the improvisers do a lot of practice. They indulge themselves for hours to perfect their art. They always follow certain rules. One of the most important rules that make improv possible is the idea of agreement that is to have characters accept everything that happens to them. Similarly in life one should always be ready to accept everything happens to them and act in accordance to that.

Finally summering all this there is one sentence:"Plan as if you'll live forever but live as if you'll die tomorrow." or as Ppaulo Coehlo said,"When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait." (He posted it on facebook at the same time I wrote this post and made me edit it after posting this is called serendipity)