You live in fiction, and your story is spread across various books; you shift your protagonist role from one chapter in a day to a different chapter in another book. You write your own stories every day in your books. A book for the home, a book for the office, a book for friends, and if you are studying at a business school, you will have one extra, a book for business school. You get immersed in the story and move forward, chapter by chapter, in your respective book daily.
When you start your journey toward an executive MBA while working at the office and managing responsibilities at home, you push yourself further to begin writing a new book, with chapter one written from your first day at the campus. After a few years, when you are about to graduate from that business school, you will find yourself in the last chapter. It’s time then to pick one of your existing books of life and add a few more chapters based on your pedagogy. This time, you will write your stories differently, with more authority and maturity.
The thirst for writing new stories every day should never be quenched. After completing one book, you must reconcile and plan your next book.
As you progress towards retirement, your journey at work becomes more tormented. The time you realize that you have become a downer for your employer and they will offload you soon, you will discover more time for yourself to become a better anecdotist and start adding more exciting chapters to your personal book of life. As time passes, you will realize that the ultimate secret of being a successful person in life is to rely on your own books and become a protagonist in someone else’s story.
No matter how hard you try. You will never be able to complete your book of life. You have to leave your story incomplete and begin your journey for your eternal life abruptly and unexpectedly.
You will only be remembered for the stories you wrote with the people you lived with. You will only be regarded by the number of books you left behind in someone else library. That’s the only way to remain alive in the fiction for the generation to come. You are always in someone’s story but remember; it is not always yours. You live in fiction, and fiction never ends.
Asif Durrani
01 May 2022
https://www.linkedin.com/in/asifdurrani
Also published at Medium
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Venue: London Class Room, HULT DXB Campus.
This article is dedicated to my wayfarers in the cohort of EMBA 2020 at HULT International Business School.
(this intuitive idea was conceived and written on the day I presented my final year project; the FMC (Future Mindset Challenge) at the campus and defended our project along with our team members in front of jury, catalyst and the honourable Dean).
Asif Durrani 