Working in a television channel gives you a different high altogether. It is fast, it is urgent, it is sweaty and it pumps in a lot of adrenalin! It is like playing or watching a game of soccer or having sex!
It is exciting! When the deadline nears and you have lot of things still to do, lot of pending tasks still to get over with and you cannot give an excuse YOU HAVE TO PUT IT ON AIR, it is amazing! The alertness, the vigilance that it requires, you can compare it to nothing! And when you finally see your baby on television with a population of 1.2 billion looking at it at the same time, it surpasses all pleasures of the world!
I have felt that once, the first time my story went on air, and when I got the whole office watching the television in a stupor, nothing really competed or can compete with that sort of a feeling! Like maybe when my mother first saw me reading a live news bulletin for the first time on television, the sense of pride that she basked in, it is a heavenly feeling! It is incomparable.
Life has its highs and lows. I was the person who wrote few days back how working in television has its own demerits. Then I know I am doing something that I always wanted to do. And even if I did not know this was what I wanted to do, now at the age of 24, I am sure I must have wanted this! To create something, new, different, timeless, and everlasting. I never want to be grinded in a HR department hiring and firing people. Or maybe in a bank deciding the fate of multitudes who want to get some money! No offence meant to anyone in any other business, but then I am forced to say this because I seldom see anyone so happy with his or her jobs! Yes, I am contradicting myself because I was bitching about my job few days back. But I am happy! And even when I am sad and unhappy with the job, I would never want to quit it or shift my focus to any other thing, because this is what I do… This is what I have been trained to do. And I love it! I will be shoddy and really not graceful in any other field.
When I meet a person and introduce myself as a television producer… I see the gleam and the jealousy on the other person’s face. And they see the pride on mine!
Thank you broadcast. Thanks a lot!
With love
Hanging Words
