That One Day

What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?

We choose our professions for many different reasons, of course the primary one should be on the basis of where our interest and passion lies, but nowadays, at least around me I find people who have good talent for otherwise different things, rushing towards a few particular fields due to their income or facilities.



There is also a practice of earning enough from one profession and then going for the true passion or simply retiring early with good investments and enjoying life.



Then there are people who will follow in their family footsteps no matter what, although nowadays it has become a bit rare but there are still those families of doctors, lawyers etc someplace or the other.



I honestly think people should explore the thought of what they want to do even more than they think they need. What’s the harm? Unless possessing an easily distractible mind, one can only end up with new experiences and maybe one of those experiences might be more than what one had ever thought of.



Is one day enough for anything? It takes more than that to think of whether you will speak to a person again or not. Don’t most of us like to sleep over it? But let me answer for the sake of answering.



It’s not just one day, it’s everything that I have ever wanted to do. If it’s for one day, I need to select something I am already a bit familiar with and this will only add to that particular experience.



For a day I would love to work in a nice little bookshop. I have been on the other side of books through writing, editing, reviewing, interacting with authors and aspiring to be one myself, but the other side of it has completely eluded me, interacting with the people who actually walk into a bookshop wanting to glance over the collection of books, inhaling the fragrance that books emit, looking at the titles printed in fonts of different styles and colours, specifically looking for an author or perhaps a genre.



If one asked me for a good book to read, I may never be able to tell. Because it is never a book but my own feelings which I become attached to after reading or even watching something. I am never sure if another might come across that kind of feeling. Thus, it is better to keep the gifting of books to people whom you actually know at a certain depth.



I won’t lie, my interest in bookshops is also from their mentions in books and presence in movies and TV shows. My preference for buying hard copies rests with the bookfairs since my childhood, but I have been to a few bookshops and I certainly feel sad when I read about some old bookshops closing down.



Hence, for that one day I would like to work in a bookshop, and try to soak up everything unique about the experience and even though I may not be a good guide to the perfect book out there, but I will certainly tell those interested, everything that is good about a book, especially with focus to the bits about how it has been written, illustrated or with the design and font that has gone into its layout.

Written by Anuran Chatterji

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