A Great Teacher

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Made of great is something that as per my concern is not just about making great changes or organizing candle marches or changing displays on Facebook. A person who makes change in a single person’s life is made of great for that individual. When I was a kid I read a story about a guy strolling down the beach and throwing starfishes back into the sea. A guy asked him there are thousands starfishes on the beach, so how throwing one or two into the sea would make a difference. The reply was simple and straight forward from the guy. He picked up a starfish and threw it back into the sea and said “I made difference to that starfish”. For that starfish and for the individual who was witnessing it other guy was a person made of great.

It just takes a simple act and simple thought to do something. It might seem real trivial to many but for some it may be life changing. One such individual whom I got in touch was my faculty in my engineering college. He was polite and very generous. He was friendly and had great knowledge about the subject. Even during the free lectures he can be seen googling or reading something that interested him. But one thing was sure that he was not a book worm. He was just passionate about the subject. My branch was electronics and communication and the subject my faculty used to teach me was Electronic Circuits. He has real good knowledge about the topic both theoretical and practical.

My friends and I spoke to him about a lot of things apart from the studies. He once shared his life story. He did engineering from one of the reputed college of the state and even had offer to work in one of the IT giants, but he turned it down. He wanted to something in the field of electronics and wanted to go in research field. He joined college and even worked hard on his electronics knowledge. He used to study extremely hard and have read many books from cover to cover.  

He had made projects for students while he was preparing for GRE (Graduate Record Exam). He made robots for competitions and those have won championships. He prepared for GRE but as the luck would have it, his father met with an accident and a lot of savings went for his treatment. His financial condition got dire and he decided to take tuitions but soon realized that the money will not be enough. He applied in my college and got the job. He taught us and few other classes and used to prepare for GRE side by side. He gave GRE and passed with the flying colors. He has got his paper published in few international journals. He would be going to pursue his dream to do his research in his field of interest once his father recovers completely. He got 100% scholarship for his PhD. Right now he is working with an NGO and teaching under privileged students on weekends. He did something for himself and making changed into life of others’ too. Now for that is the person made of great.

It was his hard work and the will to go on and attitude to not give up on dream that inspired me. I loved the way he carried himself after achieving so much. He never showed off of his knowledge. He never insulted any student who didn’t know the answer. It is because of him I learned how to carry myself and how to work for dreams. I always wanted to work in a big good company firm and now I am here working with one.

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Made Of Great- My Friend

What is great and how can a person become great? Is it providing food to the needy for a day or it is about taking a step to improve the condition of the needy? People do not become great with just their hard work to reach a goal. Achieving a goal cannot always be equated to being great. There are individuals who have set goal as passing in the unit tests or passing their school examinations. Once that goal is achieved, what does that person has to achieve in life. His goal has been realized. If realizing goal can make someone great then I guess every individual is great. For some reaching office on time is goal while for some losing weight is a goal. The goals that are mentioned are short term goals. If a person has set a goal with vision and working passionately to reach that goal and even after achieving the goal he is working relentlessly to not lose that position that he/she has achieved then that is a great person.

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People always forget that it is not just about achieving something it is about achieving and staying there at there with the achievement at that pedestal. Winning race is fine but it is about continuously winning.

There is a beautiful quote by Aristotle

 

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

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 Great individuals are the ones who seek excellence and make it a habit. With their self-belief and determination they achieve something that is great and become great. Great men have vision and that is what separates them from others and they are called truly made of great. One of my friends is one of those individuals whom I consider as someone who is truly made of great. He is right now undergoing training in OTA Chennai. Yeah he is in army.

It was his dream to join defense services. He has that never say die attitude which has made him what he is today. He got selected in his 7^th attempt for SSB. His perseverance finally paid off and he is where he always wanted to be. He is national champion in horse riding and has won two national titles for same. He is not just good with the horses he is great with them.

He has merged his two passions to make a life out of it. He had that vision to foresee and plan. He joined army and is now getting trained by the Army. He never quit at any point of his preparation and his goal was not just a mere mile stone. His goal was how he wanted his life to be and he achieved it with his hard work and continues to work hard to live that goal that he has set.

It is the passion and the will to achieve what he has aimed for, which drives him. He had that zeal and with the constant effort without getting disheartened he achieved what he truly deserved. Being friends with him has also taught me how to be more disciplined and how to enjoy what we do. It is because of him that I learned what truly never say die attitude means and what it mean when we say truly made of great.

I did my MBA with great score and now working in a good company. I learned a lot from him and can boldly he is the person really made of great. By the way his name is Yashowardhan Dwivedi.

 

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Live together feel forever

When someone ask me why we need to live together and why we cannot live alone as we are born alone and we will die alone; only thing comes in my mind is my first social science lesson “Man is a social animal”. It’s not about living together or alone makes any difference but it’s the feeling of togetherness which creates the difference.

Feeling togetherness with your close ones amid of natural beauty is a memory which imprints forever. Being true to my aforesaid statement about man being a social animal, I proclaim myself to be one of those animals. And I also have my share of togetherness. It was not long back when I felt this awesome feeling of togetherness. I am in Mumbai for last 10 months and just like all other central region guy I began my stay in Mumbai from hating the city and now I am completely in love with it. After roaming city in day light, we all decide to have a night out at Marine drive.  After attending a farewell party we proceed to our destination and nature starts playing his part.

From a dry windy day to a heavy drizzling night, we taste the mood swing of nature and to be very honest I was enjoying the rain. It was making me feel alive. We reached Marine Drive at 9.30 completely drenched with a wind blowing across us. Many of us give up the idea of the spending the night as they were afraid of the thundering and rain. While on the other hand I was oblivion to this discussion. For me it was me, sea, rain and wind. Suddenly I heard a beautiful song sung by Lata Mangeshkar ji “Ajeeb Dasta hai ye” I turned around and saw my friend is singing it. Unlike the other friends who were busy in cracking jokes and making plans to return she was quite serene.  Her eyes were glued to the sea where all we can see was black water getting blue for a fraction of second when lightning reflects on sea surface. She was singing flawless.

Instead of making her realize that I was noticing her signing I started singing slowly with her (it was because I don’t want add my 8^th note to her 7 note music). I knew the lyrics of songs she was singing and then we keep on singing old songs which not only have in depth lyrics but also posses mesmerizing melody. One of our friend was having no clues about the songs we were singing but she was also enjoying (it was due to the fact she was listening my friend’s voice not mine). We finally ended our small singing session with my all time favorite song “Mera Kuch Saman”.

Though she is a very good friend of mine we never share any personal stuff with each other and in fact neither we spoke about this moment as well. When we were signing the songs while looking the endless sea I literally forgot who are sitting around me and where I am seating. People say if you are feeling togetherness you do not have time for yourself and for me the time we spent at Marine drive singing melody I was feeling togetherness but I was giving time to myself.  At last I just want to say thanks for my friend Rashmi to make that moment special with her awesome singing and making sure no one heard me singing. Stay blessed always.  

Moving on After a Relationship

It has been exactly 3 years 6 months after my broke up, and I can still feel her presence.  Sometimes I think what went wrong between us. We had fights before break ups as well but all of them were ended on sweet notes. With her, my hobbies are also gone. I am no longer a person who is crazy for reading and writing. In fact, I am now a confused pre-occupied soul. I am not afraid to try the other person but still I am not letting anyone to enter in my life. Whenever I sense the similar warmness from the other girls, I tend to move away from them. Is it me who is not letting other entering in my life or actually the other girls are not in my liking zone. 

Recently I came to know that she is engaged and now busy in posting her updated happy relationship photos on Facebook. Thank god, she is not in my list. After my broke up I was complacent with the fact that now she can search her Mr. right but after checking  the guy’s profile I am a bit shocked as  the girl still doesn’t improve her taste. While I was stalking, her recent updates I was recalling every late night planning that we used to do and trust me nothing is going as per our plans. Is that what she was looking for? I don’t know about the rest of the details but still I hope whatever she wants in her life that guy should give her (not at all a sentimental broken heart statement just a genuine wish for the one who once used to be my someone special).

Close friends are asking me to move on as she did but frankly speaking, I do not understand what they mean by moving on. Is going in relationship with some other person is definition of move on.  If it is so then they are right but if it is something else then they are not. I already moved on and now I need companion rather than girl friend and until the time I do not find her, I will not be doing hit and trial.  Moving on for me is more to do with controlling feelings, which you have for the other one, rather than moving in relationship with other. If you were a part of broken relationship then don’t be scared to move in relationship with other (that doesn’t imply that you can go with anyone, just give sometime to person and then decide).

I have heard people proclaiming that they will remain single entire life as they cannot love other person and I did not find any logic behind it. With due respect to your feelings I just want to say just give someone special place and trust me if you like her as a friend and he/she care and respect you then don’t bother,  they will make you love them. It is just about being open for everyone without compromising your comfort. So, just move on after a relationship by keeping the reasons of failure and once you find the person making effort to be with you, give him/her a chance, they will never leave you. 

Thats all I have

After long toiling day at work

No respite what so ever

Went to light-less street

Like a leaf, wind

Tries to blow me

Empty hands of mine

Missing the warmness

Came back to a dark room

With tears in eyes

Thats all I have

Thats all I used to....

In Between Dreams and Necessity

In life what we want is nothing but the desires molded into needs. If I want to have an expensive phone or car then I am just simply making it a necessity.  Why we do such thing?  I mean why we can’t simply admit the fact that it’s our desire.  I have no answer for this question.

I am simply awestruck by the fact that I am constantly doing it since I came to know about desires. Is desires are really bad? Every time I read some spiritual post I got this life mantra “don’t desire much be happy with what you have” and just like the other readers I also think that reason for my desolation is my desire.  With my best efforts I am trying to suppress my desires for the happiness and trust me I am not really very happy with what I have. I am not blaming anyone (including myself) for what I have but yes I am not 100 percent satisfied with what I have. Be it a job or vehicle or watch or phone or any other materialistic thing, I just simply not satisfied with it.

As I write it earlier as well that I am suppressing my desires to be happy but the truth is I am not really happy it just helps me to accept the things I have. But really do I buy stuffs to accept (as I am buying means I have accepted it) or do I buy it for happiness. I am not at all saying that this approach of being happy with what you have is not good or it should not be practiced but yes I have started to believe that desires also plays crucial role in changing life. If Ashoka was complacent then he would not  have such a large kingdom or if Sachin was complacent after breaking Hanes and Gavaskar’s record for most number of centuries in ODI and test format then he would not be the first person score 100 centuries in international format. With these examples I am simply putting forward the thought that desire is necessary in life and all you need to do is to make a perfect combination of both. You cannot desire for everything (obviously everyone wants a king’s thrown) but you can simply have a separate list of desire. Don’t mingle it with necessity as it will make you sad (if you don’t fulfill it). I am not having enough experience to propound this theory but till now this is what I am adopting. I am giving 100 percent for my desires and yes it is significant part of my life.  If you have any opinion/advise for me then please comment on the post. I will be happy to read your response.

Self-reliant family guy

A gift from god to all people is family. There are very few things which you cannot even describe and out of those things one is family. Moment you born you are attached with the people whom you know only by touch and then they become part of your life. If you are not one those guy who loves to be with the family then just start spend a week with your family members and respect their choices. I bet you cannot leave them after that week.

In the process of being a matured Man from a kid I learnt a lot or I would say my family teaches me a lot. I still remember the childhood when I always find myself in mess and was clueless about what will be next and then my parents solve my problems and I wondered what they did? Initially they taught you how to speak and then they taught you how to speak at right time. Being in a company with different peoples from different backgrounds I learnt one thing that the basic education that my family gave me is the most important one. Just because of that I am now able to adjust in different situations and also people who are completely strangers to me starts believing me.

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Whenever my mom ask me to buy a packet of bread in the childhood I felt  like the most responsible and trusted person as my mom chose me over my younger brother and once I grew up my mom ask me to do different things which requires more responsibility and maturity. While I was excited to get new responsibility and authority I completely ignored the fact that bread packet was now in my brothers hand in the similar manner he also become matured.

There is no class like family room and there is no teachers like your parents. Whenever I feel down and out or whenever I had a doubt in my own abilities my father always encourage me to work more. No matter it was my first back in engineering or my first stock market loss my father always encourage me to better. Just because of him now I am confident enough to start my life at any point of life.

Stress, nervousness, depression these kinds of words are not in my dictionary and the only reason for it is because of family. They always teach me the way to solve  the problem. As my mom says no problem is big you make it big by ignoring it and hence it is really necessary to pay attention to that problem initially and you will avoid chaotic situations. Now I am in the city of dreams without my family I know how much I miss them. I wait for the third weekend of the month (on which I usually go to my home town) and those two days recharged me till I re-visit my family. If you are feeling a bit apart from your family or you are lacking in self-belief then be with your family. I bet that you will become a completely transformed person after meeting them. Please share your experience with me as I want to hear how you feel to be with your family and how you become a self-reliant man from an immature kid.