Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

You wake up in the morning, get ready for work, wake up the kids, get them dressed and drop them off to school. While on your way to work, you get stuck in traffic while chowing down on your breakfast. When you walk into your office 15 minutes late, you have ten calls on hold for you, and six memos from the other side of the building. By the time lunch rolls around, you’ve already written three reports on stuff you don’t even really care about, but you know you have two more to write so you skip lunch and keep working until 2 pm. Then you finally walk out into the hallway, when your boss comes up to you with a crisis situation that you need to handle right away. You get back on the phone and make some calls, which seem to last three hours each. When you’ve finally clocked out, you sit once again in traffic and wonder what the hell you’re doing with your life. Read More.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m doing all this. Why am I waking up in the morning, helping out my family, trying to do Shah Training, get good grades at school, and work on my consulting job. Why am I hoping for my script to get sold instead of just focusing solely on school or trying to get an internship or trying to get a higher-paying job?

Ideally I would just focus on school right now, then go out and start looking for a job once I graduate. That would be “ideal.” That would be, essentially, the road most traveled. But I’ve never been the one to take the road most traveled. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been the one to do things differently.

Early childhood memories tell me that I was always a writer, a planner, meticulous in some instances, and careless in others. I was always physical, but I was also the type of person that would be able to sit in a quite corner all to himself without making a noise. I would get lost in parties and excel in family gatherings. I loved attention, but from only those that I trusted.

When I look at myself in the mirror sometimes I feel a sudden urge to just be angry. Really, I feel this way. Why? Because there is a sad truth that I’ve come to realize recently: People are stupid. This truth has been further compounded by the fact that I have recently began reading Freakonomics.

Freakonomics talks about economics in a completely different way than most economics talk about. To me, it’s like taking two seemingly polor opposite scenarious and connecting them through logic, philosophy, and economics. This makes sense to me because in a way I’ve been doing this for a greater part of my life.

Freakonomics is basically looking at the world a different way. Same goes for me. I look at things in a different way. Recently, I’ve been conducting an internal debate whether or not an upcoming YJA (Young Jain Association) Convention is worth the $275 ticket that they are selling. Frankly speaking if you were to take into account the cost of the hotel in downtown Chicago, then this price is surely a bargain. But I don’t see it that way. I see it is a complete rip off and waste of money.

Why do you guys think I see this convention as a rip-off? And what does this post have to do with fitness? Post your thoughts to comments.

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