Success stories

'Career' became a matter of discussion somehow, in a random talk with a friend today.
He wanted to be a design engineer.
That was his passion since childhood, and thats how he ended up studying engineering.
But now, at the first turning point of choosing a career option after studies, he is still doubtful of what his real passion is.
One has to be so good with the theory and drawing to be able to design something new. And that meant a lot of effort that needed to be put in. My friend was saying how he is at the turning point of parting with his dream, because his present position is not good enough to reach his destination.

This random talk just made me think about my career too.
Thankfully, and unlike my friend, I ended up pretty happy and confident.
As an entrepreneurship aspirant, all great success stories that I got to listen from everywhere had something in common.

Searching something motivational, all I found everywhere mostly were all these. 

Dropping out and sheer talent combined with passion and hard work leading to the glories of success. 

Kidding apart.

What these stories actually show is that, if you have the passion, talent and hardwork nothing, not even a namesake degree can stop you. 

No matter what, the mental power to cut through all obstacles and rise up with passion and consistency - that has magically turned all these failures into success glories.

And thats something very great to be motivated from.

Tantrums from Abroad

The bus journey from my house to college everyday is a pretty long one.

Thats when I mostly come across a lot of people, from almost every walks of life.

From the stubborn, dark lady who sells fish to beauty queen aunty who is always with a hell lot of makeup.

Listened today to a very young pretty lady, talking to her friend. About how her husband is working abroad from around 7 years, and comes once every other year home. She kept going on with her tantrums of taking the entire burden of the family on her weak shoulders. 

Why do we actually live for?

Ultimately, we all want to be happy in life. To have all goals accomplished and wishes fulfilled.

But, thinking about the millions of poor Indians working on the foreign lands for years, with absolutely no enjoyment or relief rather than the steaming hotness of workload and stress, its just an emptiness that fills my mind. Is money the only thing that matters in this world? The millions of people who work abroad for long years, not even getting see their loved once in years, what the hell do they earn in life? The bundle of papers?? And that too on the cost of years of happiness. Is it actually worth? These questions that arose in mind, kept haunting me.

It maybe like they don't get to earn much from their native lands, and thats the reason they migrate. But still, where there is a will, there is a way. The ways are always open, you just have to search for it. Anyone can do some decent work and earn a living in India itself, there are endless chances. Its not a too big deal. Going abroad after a certain age has kind-of become the usual trend for a major section of the Indian society. The glitter of the heavy bundles of money is the main reason of going with the brain over heart. And this results in total misery, for the person and for the entire family. The separation for long years with wife and children is not an easy task at all. On the cost of years of happiness, they earn money. Sometimes the savings also dont turn up to be very high, in the end. By the time the person comes back and decides to settle in the native land, he must have become pretty old and good-for-nothing, very weak in health too.

The age to actually live life, the age to enjoy and be happy doing all what you like to do - everything passes away and hardly anything remains in their lives later on. I'm talking about a majority that cannot afford neither to take their family with them abroad nor come back and settle with their family at the native places. I cant find anything to be so much happy about, in such lives. The worst condition of separation and the amount of torment that the person and everyone related to him has to undergo - it just pushes me into a deep trench of haunt.

Personally my opinion is to live life the way your heart says and be happy always. I feel its always better to be with family and live happily. You might be earning less, you might not be able to have a luxurious life. But still you will be happy and enjoying life together with your loved ones. That will anyways be better than sacrificing the entire life to have a decent oldage life. I feel very disturbed for the millions of parents, wives and children who has to be away from the ones they love, for such a long course just for the sake of earning more money. Its the smile on our faces and peace of mind that actually matters, nothing else..

The lady that I came across in the bus looked very pretty. She was very young, thin and shorter than me. The way she was talking about all the responsibilities that she has to take, and the sufferings she has to undergo, touched a lot. The awful condition of separation and loneliness that leaves alone with a hell lot of burdens, it just kept haunting me.
When she was saying about the good times they had together, I'm nearly sure that I saw a twinge of pain and traces of a tear drop in her eyes.. 

The Realization and the Kite

Theories doesn't matter.

When it comes to practical life, and finally when the chances come up to actually put them up to some use, the theories doesn't help much. My 10 year old cousin turned out to be a better in aerodynamic design than me, who had long years of studying physics and ended up now as an engineering student.

The curiosity with which he was explaining to me how to make the kite, how it works, and many aspects of what will happen if we do something wrong, it all actually made me think more..
The long lines of theories, the Bernoulli's theorem, when it actually came to something that matters, something very trivial, all the chunks of theoretical knowledge went to the rubbish pile.

I got very much reminded of the all time hit movie 3 Idiots.
"Beta kaabil bano kabil, kaamiyabi tumhare peeche aayegi.."
Obviously a must see movie for all engineering geeks to open up the eyes that are tightly closed by the universities towards the endless arena of practical knowledge..

Its the whole system that needs a transition.
The whole study-from-the-text system needs to undergo inspection and get transformed into a better one, that gives more chances to think and experiment, and actually do something practically that applies the long lines of theory that has to be learnt to be able to pass the examinations.In the present scenario, even a person with a lot of dreams and innovation, after the long years of absolute theory, will get deprived of all the passion.

Even in these lines, I raised many tantrums against the system, but the little child's words led me to a realization - What the hell am I doing for the improvement that I look forward to?
Not so early, not so late - this realization is going to be a pretty useful one.

Knowledge is power, and that what one needs to have to be successful in life, and to be always ahead.
And to put it into some use, a mindset to experiment is what is needed. Read more, think more and put what you gain into something useful, creative and innovative. For people who have a passion about I.T its going to be a bit more easy I guess. More because, almost everything is 'soft' over there. To experiment and to try making something new, isn't that hard. But there is no chance of an improvement, without that extra bit of effort, which you have to put in.

When the realization struck from within, without any 'external unbalanced force', it actually struck! And I'm going to start putting it into action to keep up my paces towards my passion, to be better in what I want to be.

Thanks to my little cousin for the beautiful kite that he made and gave me. It flied to great heights, which was quite unexpected.. Had a great day, enjoyed with him and we had a look at it with lots of elation as our kite soared high.

And my treasured realization safe deep inside..

Preindication of Transformation

In the world's largest democracy where the super parties keep ruling in turns, 
the common man has eventually started pulling the trigger against the prolonged corruption, 
right at the national capital. 

And the tremendous boost added by the NaMo mania nationwide was reflected evidently in the outcome,
maybe as the preindication of a transformation period... 

Ultimately the whole point is an India that soars high among the world nations...

And may this be a start.

Metamorphosis

After a pretty long time, the feeling of seeing my own long-forgotten blog accidentally was very peculiar.
Seeing the two lonely posts, put around 2 years back, arose a strange nostalgic feeling somewhere at a corner of my heart.

Schooldays were wonderful. Great, actually..
When we actually go through our school lives we hardly ever realize, that these are the happiest times when we hardly have any worries or problems. All we have to do is to actually enjoy.And all these realizations struck only after we pass through all those good times.

School life has past, and finally the most awaited college life has started.BTech at a government college.. more of a dream come true.

Still remember the early mornings at maths tution, when sir used to give us long motivational lines saying the importance of getting into a government college. And his most famous lines - a little effort now will give you four years of enjoyment and freedom, giving way to one of the best possible college lives. Even though after an acceptable compromise in my choice of branch, finally happy with the campus life where I ended up straight after 12 long years at Nirmala.



N now finally stepped into the college life, few months back..
I didn't get into the computer science department but into electronics and communication, vesting on me the weight of studying more n more, which could have been much easier the other way.Hoping for the better, and with a lot of dreams n expectations and mindset to achieve them all, to live life the way I would love to.. Sometimes,satisfaction can matter hell lot more than fame or fortune. Ultimately, the whole point of all the worries, pain n hard work that we take in life is the burning desire for happiness.

I think, its the first time I'm writing something like this after 12th standard English exam.
And a few bits of a lot of experiences just coming out..

The first days of college, in between all strangers had not been a so good experience to be happy about.It all changed slowly, as we all came to know each other more, and everything started getting more homely and the start of most awaited time,started turning into a very enjoyable one..



How different people are..They way god created each and every individual is one of the most amazing aspects of creation. The very same atoms constitute every human, but each one very alike n very much unlike the other.There is hardly anything more easy than to predict or understand the way another person thinks.The most pathetic of all is the way most people can't see the relation between a boy and girl as friendship, the best possible relation in the world, or as anything else other than love. Its hard seeing best buddies separate, just a bitter damage caused by the trashy way of thinking of the majority.Seeing the 'bestest' buddies getting along and heights of technical thinking and imagination spurting up, an overview of the best time of my life coming up reveals its attire. Sometimes the so called exam-point-of-view of learning, series exams and the study tensions can be a bit too irritating. There is always bunch of students always sitting with their noses deep inside the thick textbooks and that is all what they really care about  - I wonder if anyone can help feeling at least a bit nervous inside with the scene.
Life turns enjoyable only when everything is in the perfect proportion, neither too much nor too less.Standing out without going with the crowd is not much of an easy task either. But to reach the destination and seek the aspirations which kept on leading me till here, I will have to take that extra bit of stress.

Turning 18 is not an easy task.
Especially for a girl. 
She has to face the usual reminders like 'you are grown up!' and long lines of advice on 'how to be responsible', 'the need of discipline' and much more from every single place. The worst part is when the high held self-respect gets hurt, when all the dreams and aspirations gets compared and termed lower than marriage and the usual social stigma. But a strong heart and tough determination can keep up the spirit to show that I can also do it and I will, what if I'm a girl!



But still.. turning 18 is not that easy, and you get more burden on the shoulders. 
Mostly the hardest stuff like cleaning the room and not keeping it messy!Its been a long time since I wrote something creative or played violin. The last two years of school and tution work kept me too busy even to think of innovation. But now its time I take out the old habits and polish. So just started off with the long-forgotten-blog again. 

Even in between a lot of things to do at college, only a couple of things gives something like the immense pleasure that is obtained from a trivial bit of time spent for doing something creative. A website of my own, its high time I materialized the bygone dream. A lot still left do, and just waiting for the freight of exams to get over, to actually start doing something that gives satisfaction and felicity.


Thinking more, I get a hell lot more to type. 
But this already got too long I guess.

So running into a swifter conclusion, the new transformation from a school girl to college student has brought about a new horizon in life. The period of transition and a long journey to go, has finally begun...