This post is dedicated to all my friends who are at the same juncture in Life as I am!!
Have u felt a sudden rush of sadness these days?? You start missing your college rather hysterically? You look outside the window and view the pouring rainfall and think of the time when you practised 'Football' at some non-descript ground near your college for the upcoming inter-class matches? Think of all the times you have whiled away playing 'king of all indoor games'...yeah Carrom or just gossiping away time between lectures doing absolutely nothing ! The assignments, the practical 'write-ups', the mid-term exams, the submitions, the class jokes, peeping into the teachers attendance sheet just to get a glimpse of 'your' attendance record........Do you not remember the time when all you did in that 1 hour lecture was play games on your cell or pass some silly joke around, the 'name-place-animal-thing'........... I dont know if it only happens with me but then I feel extremely nostalgic these days. This sense of nostalgia comes in bursts, very intensively. I dont feel embarressed when I say that there have been about 2-3 occassions when I have sobbed like a child thinking of all the good times that I spent with my friends, my class. The absolutely 'no-tension' life, 'Mom-I-want-100-bucks-for-journal sheets-and-files', these are gonna be no more........ The next time you spent money, be-it for the absolutely neccessary thing/reason, you gonna feel 'Sala Kitna paisa lagta hai Life me'. Life suddenly forces you to think about 'kitna salary haath me aayega', what are gonna be the accommodation charges in the training period', 'shopping me kitna paisa lagega'......... But after having said all this, we need to remind ourselves that the real fullfilment of Life's objectives is in living the moment. All Good things are to be cherished and then one has to move on. Time brings with itself not only greater hardships, responsibilites but also its share of happiness. Every phase of Life has to be lived and enoyed to the fullest. All we friends are gonna stay in touch. Orkut Rocks isnt it :) For instance: the very fact that most of us would be earning and give back to our parents is so amazing. Isn't this what we always dreamed? So the bottomline is Life needs to be taken as it comes. Enjoy!!
P.S: To quote a great quote(My favorite)
Life isnt fair, but then it isnt fair to anyone. That is what makes Life Fair
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Love and HeartBreak
Have u ever had a heartbreak? Or rather, Have u ever been in a relationship in first place?
Those who have will agree that Love is a beautyfull beautyfull thing to happen to 2 people. For that matter, people who have not been will agree upon that too. But, as one of my friend had once opined, Love comes in a package. Hatered, jealousy, demanding, possesiveness are as much a part of love as is feelings of having that one soul who is all yours! I am not being general here; subject to one's own experience. Love suddenly makes you feel that your Life has a meaning. The next day suddenly seems all that worthy to live for. Suddenly that rugged jeans of yours become all the much dear to you. In all these years of existence, you come to know that your eyes are one of the most beautyfull asset you own. I could go on and on but then it will become too cheesy and that is not what my post is intended at. However, Love can be ruthless and burdening to be brutal. It can cause all the pain in the world which demands u into thinking why the hell did u fall into it in first place? If u can be understanding enough and tide over it, u have won a major battle. More importantly, for those who could not take it and fell apart, but then somehow managed to move on or get into another relationship, good for them. For the rest, who could never forget their first real love, my sincere sympathies with you! Dont worry, there are many like you!
Those who have will agree that Love is a beautyfull beautyfull thing to happen to 2 people. For that matter, people who have not been will agree upon that too. But, as one of my friend had once opined, Love comes in a package. Hatered, jealousy, demanding, possesiveness are as much a part of love as is feelings of having that one soul who is all yours! I am not being general here; subject to one's own experience. Love suddenly makes you feel that your Life has a meaning. The next day suddenly seems all that worthy to live for. Suddenly that rugged jeans of yours become all the much dear to you. In all these years of existence, you come to know that your eyes are one of the most beautyfull asset you own. I could go on and on but then it will become too cheesy and that is not what my post is intended at. However, Love can be ruthless and burdening to be brutal. It can cause all the pain in the world which demands u into thinking why the hell did u fall into it in first place? If u can be understanding enough and tide over it, u have won a major battle. More importantly, for those who could not take it and fell apart, but then somehow managed to move on or get into another relationship, good for them. For the rest, who could never forget their first real love, my sincere sympathies with you! Dont worry, there are many like you!
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Clear and straight
"When you get down to the essence of Life, it's all about deciding between YES or NO!"
---- Pooja Shetty( My class teacher in Semester 3 of engineering while teaching Logic Gates in the subject DLDA)
How important is to be clear in one's head about what one wants from life? Well, its a subjective question. According to me, to be a successfull person, it is one of the most fundamental things to have or to be imbibed. Scan profiles of great leaders, entrepreneurs and you will surely find this trait as the most stark of the all. Most of us do not know what our favourite ice-cream flavour is. 'Koi bhi lele yaar, khane se matlab hai apun ko...". Agreed, but then being 'straight and clear' about anything and everything goes a long long way in making a leader out of mere mortals!
I will elucidate by giving a real life example of my friend(Identity held).
Disclaimer: Any resemblance to person,living or dead, is purely co-incidental.
During our placement hysteria in my 3rd year of engineering, everyone was just waiting impatiently to be 'placed' in some company or the other. To make LIFE safe! 'GRE/MBA baad me dekha jayega.' Nothing wrong in it. It is always good to have a fallback option on one's hand. But then there are people who are absolutely clear about their goals in life and people like these go on to become great future perosnas. Like this friend if mine. He was absolutely clear about his future plans being MBA or GRE and thus decided that it was useless for him to secure a placement. Though knowing fully well that a placement would provide him a cushion in case his plans didnt materialise, he was absoluetly clear in his aim that he wanted to do a post-grad before working. He didnt sit for placements at all!! To put things in perspective, he is a 70% guy in an academic setting where securing 60%+ is considered to be good! This is what I call clearity in life. This is learnings from real life.
---- Pooja Shetty( My class teacher in Semester 3 of engineering while teaching Logic Gates in the subject DLDA)
How important is to be clear in one's head about what one wants from life? Well, its a subjective question. According to me, to be a successfull person, it is one of the most fundamental things to have or to be imbibed. Scan profiles of great leaders, entrepreneurs and you will surely find this trait as the most stark of the all. Most of us do not know what our favourite ice-cream flavour is. 'Koi bhi lele yaar, khane se matlab hai apun ko...". Agreed, but then being 'straight and clear' about anything and everything goes a long long way in making a leader out of mere mortals!
I will elucidate by giving a real life example of my friend(Identity held).
Disclaimer: Any resemblance to person,living or dead, is purely co-incidental.
During our placement hysteria in my 3rd year of engineering, everyone was just waiting impatiently to be 'placed' in some company or the other. To make LIFE safe! 'GRE/MBA baad me dekha jayega.' Nothing wrong in it. It is always good to have a fallback option on one's hand. But then there are people who are absolutely clear about their goals in life and people like these go on to become great future perosnas. Like this friend if mine. He was absolutely clear about his future plans being MBA or GRE and thus decided that it was useless for him to secure a placement. Though knowing fully well that a placement would provide him a cushion in case his plans didnt materialise, he was absoluetly clear in his aim that he wanted to do a post-grad before working. He didnt sit for placements at all!! To put things in perspective, he is a 70% guy in an academic setting where securing 60%+ is considered to be good! This is what I call clearity in life. This is learnings from real life.
Placements==Complacent
Well let me start by commenting on the most spoken word in the engineering college premises in Indian Engineering colleges. Placement. As soon as the 3rd year begins to close itself, the placement buzz starts doing the round. Asking 'seniors' about their experience, diggin websites and communties, become a ritual. Companies visit and people get 'placed'. Well, nothing wrong in that but then let us analyse the rationale behind this scenario. Most of the students who secure admission into engineering college come from middle-class families where parents dream that though the education that I am making available to my child is coming at a price, some day my 'dheekra'(common dialect for son) will pay me back. The indian child, sanskar wala bachha that he/she is,predictably, strives to secure atleast 60% each semester and secure placement into one of the so called top-notch IT company. Well, nothing wrong with this except the fact that this is slowly leading to Indian attitude of providing service and raking in the mollah! Where will then innovation come from? Why does India have so less entrepreneurs where as US 'produces' them in batches?
I know of many 'able' friends of mine who are too intelligent for the comapnies they have been placed in but are nevertheless too happy to have been 'placed'. To acheive and to innovate, we Indians have to come out of this 'safe' shell. We need to provide an impetus to excel.
Bottomline is: Placemnts do tend to make you Complacent.
The system has to change, correct, but it is we who have to initiate. Start! Live your dreams!
I know of many 'able' friends of mine who are too intelligent for the comapnies they have been placed in but are nevertheless too happy to have been 'placed'. To acheive and to innovate, we Indians have to come out of this 'safe' shell. We need to provide an impetus to excel.
Bottomline is: Placemnts do tend to make you Complacent.
The system has to change, correct, but it is we who have to initiate. Start! Live your dreams!
Sunday, 17 June 2007
Phinally
Well well well........
Initially this blogging bug caught up with me last year. I instantly registered 2 of my blogs and then voila! never posted much. I have finally discarded both of them and am starting afresh. This time(i hope) its gonna be different. This time I am creating a blog because i really wanna write. And write nicely. Hope to be a regular........
Initially this blogging bug caught up with me last year. I instantly registered 2 of my blogs and then voila! never posted much. I have finally discarded both of them and am starting afresh. This time(i hope) its gonna be different. This time I am creating a blog because i really wanna write. And write nicely. Hope to be a regular........
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