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A strange feeling it is when the moment you were waiting for is just moments away from you.....
It is one of those feelings RK was experiencing.....A brief retrospection.....

September 11, 2010

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RK was one of the most loved guys of the college.....from his school days, he was good at academics...though he never topped......neither did he ever top in college......

Back here..!!!
That was the day, a very reputed firm was gonna visit the campus.....and it was a firm RK always wanted to be a part of......he was curious, anxious, feeling excited.....and was going through every possible feeling......
While driving his way to college..to overcome the "hysteria", he played the music but something had pre-occupied his mind....
"what if I falter ?"
"what if it doesn't work out the favourable way?"
"what if.........................................................??"

10:00 am: He stopped at a traffic signal.....and looked at the kids begging for money......this was something at which his heart would spill out and he wanted to do something to help but at this stage of his life neither did he had a platform nor a clear vision as to how to go about it....???

he tried to focus on the job in hand......
10:20 am: He reached the campus...parked his car and walked straight to the auditorium where the pre placement talk and the further process of the company was to take place.....

in the due course of the day,,, there were a few rounds...RK successfully managed to make it to the final round where he was against the 7 best in the college...

There was a break of 45 mins before the final round......and it was 11.30 pm....

12/Sep/2010, 01:30 am: "A gift to embrace, a race to conquest,
                                       there are moments you face, those moments lead you to the best"

11/Sep/2010, 10.40 pm: RK closed his eyes and tried to re-iterate the things he had prepared for the final round

12/Sep/2010, 01:20 am: "A night to remember, a sight to remember"

11/Sep/2010, 10.45 pm: As RK closed his eyes, he saw a sight.....he was standing in front of a very tall building.........

12/Sep/2010 01:15 am: "Dreams are big..so are the aspirations"

11/Sep/2010 10:50 pm: He tried to identify the name coined on the name-plate of the building.....

12/Sep/2010 01:10 am: "The road less travelled...the path less taken"

11/Sep/2010 10:55 am: Suddenly everything started to get illusioned...there was a whirlwind......

12/Sep/2010 01:00 am: "The moment had come...had to make a choice....but the road  diverged.........."

11/Sep/2010 11:00 pm: RK kept focussing on the name-plate inspite of all the clutter around.....

12/Sep/2010 12:55 am: "Was a tough call......"

11/Sep/2010 11:14 pm: "RST Business Group"........written at the top of the building......

12/Sep/2010 12:50 am: "I knew I would have to............."

11/Sep/2010 11:15 pm : ANNOUNCEMENT......

All the final round candidates need to report for an hour interview.....the interviews will be conducted simultaneously by different panels......commencing in 15 minutes....ALL THE BEST everyone !!!

11/Sep/2010 11.30 pm
THE INTERVIEW ROOM

Interviewer1 : So Ritvik.....tell us something about yourself ?

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Interviewer2: What have you learnt from your past experiences ?

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Interviewer2: Are you kidding us ?

RK: No sir..!!
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Interviewer1: Why did....................................
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RK: I was sceptical......
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Interviewer2: Don't you...................Ridiculous..isn't it ?
Interviewer1: Yeah..!! You don't seem as good as your resume speaks ?

RK: May be I am sounding Overconfident....
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Interviewer1: So Ritvik, where do you see yourself 10 years down the line ?

RK: RST Business Group...
Interviewer2: What's that ?
RK: My future....
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RK: Thank you sir..!!!!!.

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12/Sep/2010 12:45 am: "I have more than sight...a vision....a dream...and perseverance to make my dreams come true...!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Messenger Of God !!

Go read out, Go fly away !!!!
Go spread the word, Go fly away !!!

These were the words spoken by God when He sent his messenger to the world, to India. As he landed here, he took out the scroll that was given to him with the above to lines scripted on it. He read them and set out on his odyssey with a strong will and proper direction.

As he reached India, he thought of conducting a survey to find out which is that one area in India that needs most rectification. He met a person and asked him, " Which place in India is the one which is in dire need of rescue today ?". He answered the rural areas and went on to name a few. He met the next person and asked the same question and got pretty much the same answer. He kept on meeting people and kept getting almost the same replies every time.
Now that he was convinced with which area to start from, he decided to move to that place. As he was about to shoot, he saw a person and something prompted him to ask one more person. He pursued his inner voice and walked up to him and asked the same question. This time, however the messenger got a different answer and was shocked. The person said, "Delhi".
The messenger said, "I asked a hundred people and each one of them said that the rural areas are in desperate need, so how come you name the capital as the answer ?". That person smiled painfully and said,

"I lived for 35 years in Delhi and have been brought up there. Never during my early stay there did i see pride in the eyes of people when they said they are a DELHIite, but off-late I started to see the pride, a pride which is not seen in the eyes of the people when they say they are an INDIAN. Delhi prospered so much that people living there aren't concerned with the people of INDIA. Delhi had The Metro while  in some states we do not have electricity. Delhi had proper renovations while some areas do not even have residences. And when I realized that materialism has taken over Delhi, I felt choked and found it difficult to stay there."


Just realize how serious this message is. A revolution can be brought about by just talking about it. If all the DELHIites erupt from the slumber, I believe we can have a change and not substitution.

As for the messenger, he is still here between us to make some amends, expecting us to realize the importance of our words so that when we goes back and stands in front of the God, he can have the pride in his smile and happiness in his tears. And that messenger is YOU..!!!!
Each one of you reading this and/or realizing it in some way or the other !!!

Question Mark !!!!!

One night when sleep once again betrayed me, I went out in the balcony and started to look up at the stars. I started making out patterns, one pattern which I could easily make out was a Question Mark ?
Perhaps because my life has never gone through a phase when certainty was there. I smiled looking upwards, indeed I was smiling(rather laughing) at myself. I looked up again....Question Mark ? Question Mark ? Question Mark ? Question Mark ?........Question Marks everywhere....
I took a deep breath, there was silence all around and I realized that silence can also be comforting sometimes. Since I was going through a phase of introspection those days, I thought this could just be the time I may get some answers. I started to look around to see if there is something else.
I took out a piece of paper and a pen and started to make a wish list. A list of all the things I aspire to achieve. As expected I had written a handful of things and then happened something. As always happens with me, a voice came from within asking me to scribble down what am I doing to achieve the ephemerals on the wish list. I started and within minutes I was finished with the writings.....
LESSON LEARNT !


I stood up, took out another paper and prepared a list of things I need to do. I knew I was taking a step in the right direction but somehow I was still not convinced, something was holding me back.
I kept writing(rather planning) and then 4 hours later I realized that I had slept in the balcony that night and it rained heavily. I looked at the paper and I was dazed to see that at the end of the list, I had unconsciously written, "I wish it rains !!!!"
I don't remember if I wrote this. I don't know what prompted me to do this but I started to tear off the portion where "I wish it rains " was scripted and suddenly amidst the shining sun and clear sky was a streak of lightning and thunder, I could see the clouds being tore apart, whirlwind, rain and cyclone.
And I was brought to senses, yes, with my mother shouting at me, it was then that I actually woke up, I ran back to my room with the paper folded in my hand. I unfurled the paper there. The words that followed changed the way I used to think and approach life.


YOU WOULD NOT BE GRANTED A SECOND CHANCE !!!

I realized that it was something that was always dwelling inside the sub-conscious, may be I was too lame(rather lazy) to go about it.
That night still remains as an unsolved puzzle.....but after that night I rarely saw a question mark in the sky.. :)

Still proud ??

This is an earnest request to please read this post with zeal and feeling and if possible loudly too otherwise the post just isn't worth your read.

After all that happened, gradually everything started to settle down and as time passed everything was just left in previous days' newspapers and then it became history. And you told yourselves that life moves on and so have you !
Well, if you thought so, then i will say you are a loser, you are a coward, you are just a person whose existence holds no meaning, you don't have it in you to accept that you ran away.

Terrorist attacks in local trains on July 11, 2006 or the terrorist attack on The Taj on November 27, 2008. The whole nation was in a state of frenzied hysteria. Each one of you were in tears after seeing the whole scenario on the (daily soap dominated) television. And then as the days passed, the tears dried. You told yourselves that we have seen enough deaths in our lives that now we find tears hard to come.

I say, "WOW !!! What a reason to hide your weaknesses, your inability to do ANYTHING, THE THEORY OF ESCAPISM...."
And you people say that we are PROUD TO BE INDIANS.
How many of you even remember the dates, Well.....congratulations if you do !!!
All of us saw movies like Rang De Basanti and at the end of the movie, we were furious, we wanted to be the change, we wanted the precarious yet uniquely structured system to be overcome by a more efficient one. And we did something, we clapped, we praised the actors for their work and said that the movie was worth the money. Ohh yes, we also voted for the actor to win awards.

WAKE UP LOSERS, WAKE UP !!!

The words may hurt you and some may even give up before reading the whole article. I would like to tell all of you who felt offended or hurt, YES ! YOU ARE GUILTY !

Tag Joys With Importance !!!

I wish I were a bird, I would have flied away, spread my wings apart and felt air moving across my face. More so this desire because then I would have been away from the stress, away from the negativity of life. Though every joy has some sorrows associated with it and that I guess, is so very necessary because then we will forget to tag our joys with importance.
I ponder over a thought that at some point of time in our lives, we all must have lend a thought to. That thought is, "However hard may try life still leaves us with an ever lasting regret". That, I guess is God's way of telling that everything is not there to be accredited to your account. That is probably why the race to win the best prize has maximum number of hurdles. That is probably why the quest to the the ephemerals is easier.
 
I feel we need to understand the importance that is tagged to everything because once we fail to respect, there just isn't a way that we'll be able to carve out to get to the desirable.
I feel God wants us to realise that having an insatiable urge will only hurt, life has its gifts "for sale(no conditions apply)", its sooner than later that we realise it.

Patience Son , Patience .!!!

As a kid , I wanted to be famous , to become a celebrity , may be a filmstar or a cricketer .
As years passed , the zeal gradually started to fizzle out . As I grew up , I saw people of nearly the same age as mine succeeding and making a name for themselves . I would often sit back and look up at the sky and question
"Why not me ?" and "Why everyone else ?"
Immediately , it used to rain which I deciphered as a signal and as a voice silently whispering , " Patience Son , Patience !!!!"
And I would trust the voice . I would sometimes use it as a trick . Whenever it did not rain or it was hot outside , I would find myself a reason to complain and pose questions at Him for being biased , sometimes it rained .!!!
One day , while coming back from school , I saw a blind person unable to cross the road , I helped Him cross the road .
As I was going away , He called me back and moved his hand over my head and blessed me .

Moments later.....
I saw an old lady walking in the park as I was passing by . Suddenly she fell down , I went running to her , supported her
to get up . As I was moving away , She called back . As I turned around , I saw the blind person and the old lady standing , I could very easily visualise Mother Mary And Jesus smiling in front of me . I didnt say anything , nor did they .
I stood there for 5 minutes after which my spiritual spell was broken by a friend of mine who came running to me
and congratulated me as I had won a scholarship of Rs. 10,000 . I myself didn't know what happened in those 5 minutes but I did realise
something........

No matter what we have achieved in life , there are secrets that we never tell to anyone , there are happenings which we can't explain ,
the best deeds done by us are always a silent passer by.....
Whatever is yours will be accredited to your account at the most appropriate time.....
You just need to trust Him when He signals that the bad patch is transient.....

Patience Son , Patience .!!!!

Live Life With No Regrets.....

I woke up and saw a smoke of scented water and fog all around me . It took me a while to figure out that my life has now halted and I am in a space that most of us wish to be at but without going through the death phase....Yes .! I was in Heaven....

I cried , I wept , I was left lamenting because there was a realisation , there was a feeling urging to splurge...
I wanted to go out there , I wanted to finish the unfinished , I finally wanted to live....

I retraced myself always saying that live life with no regrets , but today when my life is no more , I do have a regret...Life always gives you a second chance...looking in retrospect , I realise that there were chances to do the needful , to do all the things , to stand up to all the challenges and finally retire to a rest in peace attire...

One day all of you would be here , just ensure that you have done your bit so that you can stand up to The Almighty and say , " I used up everything you gave me . "
Because once life peters out , there is no going back...
When you reach here , you'll see a flashback of your journey downstairs and to be in a paradise with a regret hurts....

Though we may not be able to do everything we wish to...
But there are chances to prove , expectations to live upto....


here I am upstairs , waiting for God to just for once say...
Go son , finish the unfinished , go fly away , go fly away ...!!

Face The Change....!!!

One can stand up to changing faces , difficult it is to "Face the Change"...
Heard this quote or something of this kind somewhere , I must say , it struck a chord within and prompted me to pen down my mind...
Living is more importatnt than just existing..To be able to face the change..by facing , I mean to accept them and successfully is one of the most herculean tasks ever because most of the lot either try swaying away or accept it at as a part of their lives and get along gloomily....
As I came across the phrase , a voice cried from inside that you need to grow , you need to rise , you need to just change....

The 6 letter word kept coming back and echoed for quite a while...
Ever since our childhood when we were budding , there was a routine that we all followed..Thus the fact that changes should be better avoided gets cemented in our fist-sized heart...Incorrigible impression thus gets scripted...

The urge and scope for improvement peters out if you do the same things everyday and in the same manner...
To sum up , I'll just say---

I stood out one day...,
Neither I had the will , nor did i had the way..
Walked the road , heart full of dismay...
Saw no image , neither a figure on that way..
Cried through, broken I was , just to say..
Everything is humongous if u flay
Difficult it is to stand out...
yet I stood out that day...


Change and see the world blindly following you...

Do We Really Care ..??

Life is so fast and dicey that today we don’t have time for ourselves. Always involved with something or The other , do we really care that somewhere we are just becoming a face in the crowd.....
Every one of us wants to be somewhat different from the rest but in the hunt for money and peace , we are adding to the count and merely becoming a pilgrim on the road travelled everyday by millions....
Losing the urge to improve , to grow , to rise , I wonder sometimes that does it really concern or haunt us ..???
All of us know that on what front are we losing out on but still we ignore rather I’ll put it hereunder in a different manner...
There is a river body in front of us , our aim is to reach to the other side . There are stones floating on the water body and we can step on the stones and reach the destined place .But there is a condition that with every stepping stone we have to renounce one belonging of ours....
Each one of us has decided to take that path and reach to the other side as swiftly as possible , without thinking about the fact that thinking out of the box may work wonders....We may well be recognised just for the simple reason that we were confident enough to be different......
But again who cares...We will still choose the stepping stones and follow our peers blindly ignoring the swimming option...

I heard a quote which said , “ It doesn’t need wings to fly , just trust yourself .”
Years later when we would have ample amount of time to analyse our life , we would regret that once came a time when we had to make a choice . Trust me , saying to yourself that we chose to be a face in the crowd will hurt...

We can set ourselves to act , to think , to chose a different road , to be a part of the change , to innovate because its never too late....
OR...
We can sit back and say -> Life will give a second chance ...!!!

I woke up to realise.....

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I woke up to realise....

Certain things in life are not meant to be ours..but some things are...destiny is the word....

We live with hope , with anticipation sometimes failing to realise that expectations hurt...

With our thoughts splattering we fail to realise that Life unfolds at its own pace and we will get whatever is destined...

One day , I woke up just to find that pieces of wisdom are scattered all around us and nature in its

own ways teaches us or atleast tries to teach us that ...

everything that has come into existence will serve a purpose

before its existence is halted.....

Its just a matter of time before we realise what purpose are we here to serve ..!!!

And it is that moment when actually wake up ...!!!

And once we have realised the goal , it is in our benefit to make sure that the purpose is not defeated..!!

because...

failing to accomplish a task hurts....sometimes the pain may be chronic....

Imagine yourself running on a road which has no bends , no obstacles , no hinderances , which is not

topsy-turvy and which has no destination...!!!

Each one of us in our lives gets a wake-up call someday , we just have to be proactive....

Lets not throw our thoughts into exile , for those thoughts may be someday , the root , for us propogating in a direction....

Having realised where you want to land into , and yet not working for it is as helpless as it gets...

There is just one line for all those who are well set for an imperfect landing...

this may sound audacious but if you are letting your purpose get defeated , then.....

"......you are a pilgrim on the ...

.......road mentioned above......"

I wonder if you want to continue.......