You are the HERO of your story!....

Today, I was speaking to a study buddy who was a recent acquaintance....While I was pouring out my rollercoaster career at him, I started realising how different my life was. I always felt why I hadn't have a clear mindset where I knew what perfectly suits me and choose wisely from options laid. I always felt I messed up my career to the extent possible. But little did I realise that experting is the gist of life. Today I started realising the worth of taking steps differently... good or bad... right or wrong... but just following our heart. Life is actually lived when we are not influenced by anyone but ourselves.We have to take choices not because the crowd is doing but because you want to do it!... Eventually even if the choices turn out to be a really bad, it atleast remains as our choices. 

We grow not by age but by the opportunities we explore, by the lessons we learn from our experiments with life. I completely agree that it is always tougher to explore a entirely new path than to walk on a road already discovered and lit with flowers. But believe in yourself!. LIFE is worth the exploration... 

At the end of the day, you are the HERO of your own story and your story must be a blend of highs and lows, rights and wrongs, good and bad and above everything your story must simply be about YOU!.

Clouds and Silver linings

Every cloud has a silver lining and same is the case with the clouds of my life. There are times where I almost gave up and was despaired that nothing really works out in my way but little did I realise that God has been building a beautifully civilised road for me instead of crooked road I was dreaming of constructing. Despite of errors which I have committed right from  not participating in school captaincy elections to not aiming high enough in gate exam and neglecting a friend in need, life proved to be more beautiful with errors.

 Little did I realise that all the errors made my life more beautiful rather than more perfect. I became more practical and may be growing stronger . This morning while I was looking at the clouds in the sky  was I able to connect the dots of my life. Every cloud has a silver lining and this silver lining indicate that there is sunshine right behind the cloud of problems.
Just believe in yourself and move ahead and definitely you will enjoy the sunshine sooner or later!.

My dream Job

It’s 11.40pm on December 31^st,2018.

While the whole world is excited to celebrate the New Year, I kept my eyes glued to my HP laptop screen as only 20  minutes were left to apply for my dream job. A job upon which I had no opinion till today evening turned out to be my dream job. I cursed myself for realizing it so late. It all changed because of the man who sat beside me while I was returning to my hometown this evening. This man’s eyes were filled confidence and he carried a bag on which it was embossed THE INDIAN ARMY. Coming from a conservative family, my parents always encouraged me to apply for safe earning jobs like banks and railways and suggested me to avoid the police and the army. I always wanted to ask someone why people still go crazy about Army and Police jobs when they can get safe bank jobs and lead a peacefully life. Unable to resist myself I asked this young soldier what was running in my mind. He looked as if it was the dumbest question to ask and answered, ”It is right that it takes many things when we are in Army - we can’t spend time with family, friends and most importantly kids. We won’t even know whether we will be alive tomorrow or not!. But the Army gives many more things which soothen the soldiers. We feel happy that the whole country is sleeping peacefully at night because we are wide awake protecting the country at the border. Each day is a new life for us and battles are like celebrations. Moreover, when a soldier dies his story will not leave the world with his body but will remain in the country’s history. What more does a person need?”. The beep sound interrupted my thoughts and a dialogue box popped up on the screen “Application successfully submitted” and a smile flashed across my face.

Father's advice

Often we get vexed with our life as a new problem arrives as soon as an old problem departures from our life. We get trapped in this cycle of problem sloving and feel life is really not going well with us. Once, a 20 year old daughter was in the same situation and she approached her father and expressed her feelings. Her father who was a chef, took her to kitchen and started boiling potatoes, eggs and coffee beans in three different vessels. Though the daughter didn't understand what her father was up to, she waited patiently. After 20 minutes, the father turned the stove off and placed the three vessels in front of his daughter. He asked " What do you see in these vessels?". The daughter touched each content and told" I see hard potatoes, a boiled egg and water flavoured with coffee beans". The father replied " The potatoes, egg and coffee beans under went the same suffering of boiling for 20 minutes but each one reacted differently. The potatoes which were hard before boiling became soft and weak after boiling. The egg which was brittle, became harder and stronger after boiling. However the coffee beans are unique. When they under went boiling, they changed the water and built something new." Placing his hand around his daughter shoulder he said" Who are you?. When suffering knocks your door, are you a potato, egg or a coffee bean?"
Moral: In life, things keep changing around us, the only thing that matters is what happens within us.Just think who you are- a potato, egg or a coffee bean!.

Master's mind...

One fine day, a mom takes her little son to the concert of a famous pianist. After they were seated, the mom spots an old friend of her's and greets her. In the meanwhile, her little  son gets off the seat and starts exploring the concert hall. He finds a "no admittance" board and out of curiosity he goes towards it. The mom gets panic and starts searching for her little son. Suddenly the doors get parted and the audience get shocked on seeing a little kid on the stage at the piano instead of the famous artist. The kid starts playing "chopsticks" which he has learnt in his piano classes. The audience get frustrated and shout "take the boy away". When the pianist heard the roars of audience on the backstage, he gets onto the stage. Seeing the little boy on the stage, he understands the whole situation. Reaching around the boy, the master began to improvise the counter melody  to 'chopsticks'. Soon the two make an excellent pair and the crowd begins to enjoy the show. Throughout the play the master keeps whispering the little kid to continue playing.
MORAL: Masters can turn an embarrassing situation into a creative experience. 

Shark and the bait fish

Researchers once conducted an experiment on a shark . In this experiment, they placed a large shark in a huge tank and released bait fish as its prey. The shark immediately attacked the fish and had a splendid meal.Now, the researchers placed a clear, transparent glass and partitioned the tank into two halves. They released the bait fish on one  side while the shark was placed on the other side of the tank. Now as soon as the bait fish crossed the shark's eye, the shark readily moved forward to attack them. But the shark is slammed into the fibre glass and is bounced of. Undeterred , the shark  keeps attacking for every two minutes  but is knocked down everytime. This experiment is repeated on the next day and the shark attacks less vigorously this time. On repeating this experiment over three  more weeks, the researchers observed that the shark gave up attacking altogether. Now the partition was removed but the shark didn't even try to attack the bait fish even though there was nothing to stop it from attacking the bait and the bait fish swam free from harm.
MORAL:Often in life we experience setbacks and failures and eventually give up and stop trying similar to the shark in the experiment. We feel that as we were unsuccessful in the past, we will be unsuccessful in our present also. We fail to see that the barrier which was once stopping us, is now gone and there is 'real barrier' between "where we are" and "where we want to go".