![]() ![]() It’s introduced me to many different cultures, helped me meet lots of fascinating people, and experience cuisines I might never have done otherwise.“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” The logistics industry has since allowed me to live in 3 different countries, and travel all over the globe. Transferring between departments until I discovered my true passion: business development. ![]() I ended up working my way up through the ranks. Just to earn a few pennies before the ‘proper’ job came along, but life had a different plan for me. I went into it thinking it’d be a stop gap. ![]() When I joined the shipping company I never intended it to be permanent. Maybe it was the promise of seeing the world which appealed, or perhaps I just wanted to fly through the air like Superman, but what I do know is a career in logistics was the furthest thing from my mind. When I was a child I wanted to be a pilot. I mean how likely is it for an infant, albeit an infant John Lennon to be so erudite and philosophical? It’s a sweet story, but there’s no evidence for this either. The young Lennon replied it was her who didn’t understand life. The teacher told him he didn’t understand the assignment. According to the tale he wrote a single word on the paper and handed it in, it said “Happy”. It’s said that when Lennon was just 5 years old, he was asked to write a short essay on what did he want to be when he grew up. In the summer of 1994 however, providence gave me the opportunity to work in the shipping industry. I never wanted to sit at a screen all day, but like many of my peers in India, I originally studied for an I.T career. It’s not really that important to me who said it, only that it’s a quote that resonates strongly with my own life journey. He may not have coined it, but he did include it in the lullaby-esque ‘Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)’ a song penned for his son, Sean. It goes “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” It’s a quote often misattributed to John Lennon. ![]()
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