The other day I was at my home getting ready for my office and a friend of mine was watching an episode from the famous FRIENDS sitcom. The voices of Joey, Rachel and Chandler fell on my ears and I was pulled to the television like a magnet pulling iron. Though I have watched the series a millionth of times it still has the aura to attract me back to any of its episode. But this episode that my friend was watching and eventually me watching, was not recallable. So I started to listen to all the comic lines, the jokes the funny one-liners of the three characters. Between the sarcasm and jokes there was a scene which made a lot of sense to me. And I would like to put it into words here.
Rachel is a very bad waitress as all friends fans may know. So in this episode Gunther asks Rachel to undergo a waitress training again. Rachel is stunned to listen to that and asks Chandler if he also thinks the same. Chandler in his trademark sarcastic way agrees to Gunther. Joey joins the conversation. And the conversation hereafter is what teaches a lesson. I’m leaving the laughable part of the conversation out and would rather talk about the very simple yet meaningful lesson that this conversation teaches. Joey asks Rachel that what is the status of the job she had applied job in the fashion industry (Rachel’s dream career) some time back? Rachel says she is following it and still trying. Chandler tells Rachel that she is not trying hard enough and that she is not taking "apply to the new job you like" seriously. The reason Chandler gives to her is this: "You cannot be serious enough to try harder for the new job unless and until you have FEAR". Fear of being jobless. He tells her that unless and until she leaves her current job of waitressing she won’t have the fear that will drive to try harder for a new job that she is interested in. It is this fear that drives the person to try for something new. It is this fear that makes the person think fast and think of options that can get him/her a job that he/she is really interested in. After listening to Chandler and Joey, Rachel goes to Gunther and explains him why she is such a bad waitress: because she doesn’t care about the Coffee or Coffee Mugs or How to serve or How to arrange things. And she quits.
Now are you able to get the point here. See, this happens with all of us. After leaving the Teen-Age behind and stepping into the real world, we want to make it Big in the career that we like, isn’t it? But life isn’t always fair. Circumstances’ make us do the job that we are least interested in. This is just because we have to earn the goddamn Money and make a living. Once we are with a good earning job, we are fearless and free. We get into our comfort zone. And once into the Comfort zone we are least bothered about other things, like trying for the career in which lies your passion. If you have to get THERE then you have to leave behind the comfort zone which will instill fear in you and eventually make you struggle for the dream job/career of a lifetime.
The conversation between those three awesomely awesome characters though comic and humorous teaches the very basic trait of human behavior and some or the other way inspires to do the job that we really really like.
Rachel is a very bad waitress as all friends fans may know. So in this episode Gunther asks Rachel to undergo a waitress training again. Rachel is stunned to listen to that and asks Chandler if he also thinks the same. Chandler in his trademark sarcastic way agrees to Gunther. Joey joins the conversation. And the conversation hereafter is what teaches a lesson. I’m leaving the laughable part of the conversation out and would rather talk about the very simple yet meaningful lesson that this conversation teaches. Joey asks Rachel that what is the status of the job she had applied job in the fashion industry (Rachel’s dream career) some time back? Rachel says she is following it and still trying. Chandler tells Rachel that she is not trying hard enough and that she is not taking "apply to the new job you like" seriously. The reason Chandler gives to her is this: "You cannot be serious enough to try harder for the new job unless and until you have FEAR". Fear of being jobless. He tells her that unless and until she leaves her current job of waitressing she won’t have the fear that will drive to try harder for a new job that she is interested in. It is this fear that drives the person to try for something new. It is this fear that makes the person think fast and think of options that can get him/her a job that he/she is really interested in. After listening to Chandler and Joey, Rachel goes to Gunther and explains him why she is such a bad waitress: because she doesn’t care about the Coffee or Coffee Mugs or How to serve or How to arrange things. And she quits.
Now are you able to get the point here. See, this happens with all of us. After leaving the Teen-Age behind and stepping into the real world, we want to make it Big in the career that we like, isn’t it? But life isn’t always fair. Circumstances’ make us do the job that we are least interested in. This is just because we have to earn the goddamn Money and make a living. Once we are with a good earning job, we are fearless and free. We get into our comfort zone. And once into the Comfort zone we are least bothered about other things, like trying for the career in which lies your passion. If you have to get THERE then you have to leave behind the comfort zone which will instill fear in you and eventually make you struggle for the dream job/career of a lifetime.
The conversation between those three awesomely awesome characters though comic and humorous teaches the very basic trait of human behavior and some or the other way inspires to do the job that we really really like.
