It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

It was a breezy evening in the worlds famous marina beach with a huge crowd watching the nature's beauty with their near and dear ones.
Two friends named Ram and Sam met each other at the sea shores as they usually do.Yes,which better place will you get except the beach.It is their regular meeting point once in a week.

Both Ram and Sam worked in a software company as system analyst for around 5 years, drawing a decent salary every month.Their nature of job is to write some computer programs to solve the business problems faced by the customer and they always reserve their weekends for parties as most of the software engineers do.
When they meet each other,they used to share a lot of experiences they gone throughout the week.

One such conversation happened which was worth discussing.
Hi Sam,how do you da? - ram questioned with a energetic voice putting his hands over sam's shoulders.
Ya,am doing ok da.how about you? - sam replied with a lazy tone, removing ram's hand from his shoulder.
This action of Sam,looked strange to Ram.
But he continued,'So Sam, any good news from your side?".
"Nothing Ram,i am terribly upset with what is happening in my life"-Sam opened up.
"Whats the problem dude,why you are so upset.Please share with me if you facing any problem"-ram pacified with a soothing voice,understanding the sam's mindset.
"Nothing specific da.But I am really bored with this life.Waking up in the morning,going to office,coding programs for 8 hours,come back home and sleep.The same routine happening throughout, for the last 5 years.I am sick of such kind of life.What kind of mechanism is it?"-Sam outbursted all his emotions to Ram,his only close friend.

Ram was little happy now,reason being what Sam told was already there in Ram's mind as well.But he didnt show it off outside.After all he is also software engineer right?
By then,both reached the seashore where there was little less crowd enjoying themself watching the beautiful water waves.


Ram and Sam sat down on the sands with legs folded facing the full moon in front of them and started biting the groundnuts that they bought for time pass.
“What a good atmosphere dude.Moon in front,stars around us and the water waves touching our feet.awesome right.."-replied the Ram ,deviating from the topic as much as he can to avoid himself getting along with sam's discussion.He was afraid that he will outcry himself in front of Sam.Ram is smart at times.

Actually, Sam didnt listen to what Ram has said.He was into his own boring world thinking that except him, others are happy about their life.Pity Sam,he thought that Ram was also very happy in his life without any problems but Ram knows the truth.
"Sam,dont think too much about such things.We need to face the life as it comes.It was already written in our forehead,what we are going to become and we need to just follow without deviating from the path"-That was ram's philosophical reply to sam.Yes,Ram is an ordinary common man who takes life as it comes.

Though he is also bored with work he do,he somehow got used it as the saying goes 'Initially you will hate it,then you will get used to it and at the end you will get institutionalized".

"No Ram.i am not thinking too much.I am just sharing my thoughts about life.Tell me honestly did you acheive whatever you want to achieve in life?"-Sam asked ram in a polite tone.

"Yes..yes..i am earning a very decent salary and i have a car.I am also going to purchase a home and i will get married soon.whatelse is required?.That is all i want to achieve and i am going to achive it for sure"-That was Ram's reply.
As i already mentioned,Ram is a very common man whom we can see anywhere around us.He didn't have any hard desires towards anything.He want to get settled in his life and stay in that company for life long with salary hikes and promotions.
But Sam is not like that.He had his own desires and passions for the things he love to do.Somehow he took the software profession due to the financial dependencies in his family.But his whole interests was in something else.But he hate that profession to the core.

Ram continued,"See Sam.Everybody have their own desires/goals to achieve.But sometimes we have to relax our desires and we need to get along with the crowd.If we try to deviate from others with the hope of succeeding in it,life will go for a toss."

"Sorry Ram .I don’t want to be one among the crowd in giving up the desires and passions just for money.I would like to follow a path to fullfill my desires and passions.I am going to do what i want to do.Enough is enough,i have wasted five years in doing a work which i don’t have heart for.Atleast by now i am happy that i have realized my mistake.”-Sam shared his thoughts to Ram in a very optimistic tone.

“I can understand you.But what are you planning to do”-Ram questioned Sam.
After a long pause,Sam replied ‘ I am going to resign my job’.
“What??? Are you become mad .What are you going to do after that?Did you get any other job?”-Ram fired as many questions to Sam in a shocking mood.
“No friend.I don’t want to do the same mistake again in my life. Due to unavoidable circumstances,i took this software profession. My goal is to become a entrepreneur and i am going to become one”-Sam told to Ram.

“Are you aware that you will be losing your job and moreover you will lose the salary what you are getting now.You will lose all the privileges that you got now?”-Ram questioned again.
Sam didn’t speak anything ,instead he showed the backside of the paper in which the groundnuts was packed.The paper read ‘It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.’