The Quest For Nothing

Just finished with reading of the book, “The Quest For Nothing”, written by Anurag Anand. This book is about the story of a young corporate executive couple Akash and Deepali.

Both were working for their respective careers. They were over ambitious and were putting their best in their jobs.

As a result of their dedication towards work, their careers were going very smooth and everything was falling in place. But one important thing was missing in their life. The charm in the relationship. They were married for few years, but their relationship was spoiling because of lack time shared together, possessiveness and the ego.

As a couple, they were taking care of each other and attached with each other. But for them career path seemed more important than the married life.

In between, Akash got a better job offer and shifted to another city. Now they started living separately in different cities. For Akash, the marriage became a kind of agreement to spend life with each other. Although, Deepali used to take more initiative in maintaining the balance in their married life.

Along the path, Akash got carried away with a few stupid decisions, which led him into a career threatening corporate scam. Here again, Deepali came to Akash’s help and got him out the crisis. Then the couple realised how important the married life is and corrected their decisions by prioritizing the tasks in their life.

This book proved a kind of eye opener to me. Rather for our generation. Our young generation is becoming over ambitious, never satisfied with the career, always complaining about the professional life. They try to push themselves hard and in doing so they compromise upon the fundamental values in life. They compromise upon relationships, cannot give enough time to each other and their dear ones. They do not take much care about the health, gets easily carried away with so called 21st century trends, fads and lifestyles.

I am not of the opinion that, one should not be over ambitious. Of course, we should ambitions, we should have goals. That way only, will help us to achieve the things we desire. But in doing so there should be a balance between personal life and professional life. If any of it disturbs, our overall life gets disturbed.