Live Long, Be Happy, But Don't Do That

Poem is inspired based on my desire to find my niche in arts (painting, writing, learning languages) and earning a living (computers, engineering, advanced engineering degrees) and make my Father's dead dreams come true

Poem is out of my frustrations I am feeling right now. For past hour I was having a circular discussion and it didn't seem to end ...... Poem is an abstract of this conversation

Right now I found an excuse to replace the laptop in my work bag with my paint set to do at lunch ......
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Live Long
Be Happy
But Don't Do
That

Does it Earn you
Money

Does it Earn you
Friends

Does it Earn you
Respect

Build Yourself
You Are Young
Have Ambitions

But You are
Not Interested

Your Approach
Is Wrong

Live Long
Be Happy
But Don't Do
That

Are you Sure
You are Interested
In That

How many times a
Day
Do you think of that

Why has your interested
Waned
For that

If you are truly
Passionate

You won't care about food
You won't care about sleep
You won't care about counting
Sheep

Live Long
Be Happy
But Don't Do
That

Now is the
Time to Build
Yourself

Now is the
Time to Build
Your Financial
Nest Egg

Are you sure
You are interested
in
That

You won't find
Your interest in
One day

You have an Ocean
You can decide which Fish
You can be

Some people strike it big
Due to talent

Some people strike it big
Due to luck

Some people keep searching
And are forever stuck


Live Long
Be Happy

God Wants you to
Live Long

Doesn't matter whether
Happy
Sad
Or somewhere
In between

Search for your
Niche

Don't search for
Your Niche

Your Niche
Comes Naturally

But what if
Something else is
Your Niche

Live Long
Be Happy
But Don't do
That

Keep doing
What interests you
Take an interest
To Delve Deeper

Go beyond the
Interest
Learn the "art" and "math"
Behind your Interest

Live Long
Be Happy
But Don't do
That

I'll be ready for dinner in
An Hour

 

Exactly!

I think my real talents are latent and are covered by
1. Financial desired
2. Desire for love and respect
3. Obligation to family's well-being, i.e. bring my Dad's dreams hopes and ambitions back to life.
4. Wanting to finish what I started.

Really great way of explaining that!