Life is an illusion?

While I am looking outside my balcony in a cool December evening, I ask myself the same question. Or to be more precise, Did I take the best out of my life while getting to achieve "my destiny"?
I strongly believe that if you you keep your conscience clear (and listen to it of course), it always guides you to "your destiny" and helps you choose the correct path in the crossroads.

Every time you look at your life, it changes.
Every aspect of our life is dynamic; our goals, our priorities, perception of an ideal life...they all keep changing. Our perceptions of ourselves, of those around us and the events and situations in our lives and the rest of the world are shaped primarily by our inputs and experiences to this point in our lives.

When I was a kid, for me a getting into IIT was like "the" only dream, only priority, only ideal life, only purpose...
Now I feel, life is like a CAT paper: where you got to do fairly well in all the sections and if you miss the cutoff in one section, it is as good as nothing.

Having a good education and respectable job is like "just" clearing the quantitative ability section .Life is full of myriad number of sections whose weightage keeps on changing.

Another important section is "giving back". While 99.999...% of us do not have the time and money to become philanthropist like Bill Gates neither the courage to become a politician to decieve the people while claiming to do the contrary, we can start the "giving back" act with smile, care , love, respect, help etc to persons who are around us and especially the ones without whom we would have never what we are now i.e. our parents, spouse, kids, friends, colleagues etc.... longer the list, better you have fared well in life.

One of the major section of life with high weightage is to find the right soul mate .
Unfortunately, there is not much you can do about it.
Marriage (and job in campus) are two things which just "happen" . They affect the rest of your life more than anything else , yet you have almost no control. Many times it is neither justified nor transparent.

At this point of life, I am certain about two things:
1) Percption about life and everything related to life keeps changing. The best way is to identify "qustions with heigh weightage " and do them as best you can.
2) Our individual perceptions of life are the foundations for our personal reality.