Success
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Theres only one success –
“To be able to spend your life in your own way!”
According to me this is the most appropriate definition of success. We get so much engrossed in our day to day life that we seldom thing that are we really living our life the way we always intended to.
Life starts with a dream. A dream to become big, to follow our passion, work hard to to the hilt and reach the pinnacle of success. That is how we start our journey to success and layout a plan to bring our dreams into reality. A schoolgoing kid who hates history and geography, who finds no logic in studying litrature thinks that life will be a lot more interesting once I get into pure sciences streams. Thats how life takes a turn and we aim to become an engineer or a doctor. Unwillingly we mug up all the historical events and dates, memorize all the geographical maps and rivers so that we overcome this hurdle and then take pure science subjects. We think life will be so much fun without history, geography or hindi. Only physics, chemistry and maths. Life moves on and suddenly we discover that chemistry is all bull shit and this is not at all i wanted to do. So here the next level of thinking comes, i.e. a couple of years more and after that once i get into engineering, chemistry will be out of scene completely. The D-day also comes and voila, we manage to get admission in an engineering college after a long battle with books. Ah. .the college is not that great but we will do something exceptional and prove our mettle.
This hard work “drama” continues for most of us and one final day we are ready to hit the corporate world with dreams in our eyes. Big companies, making news, creating waves sounds so good. We think well also rock n roll with the corporate biggies.
Here it comes, Much awaited first day @ work. Completing formalities and finally starting off for training. People out there say that training period is the honeymoon period. They were right in saying so. It really is for most of the people.
Very soon people start working. Projects, deadlines, clients, managers. Wuff.. This was not expected so early. Still the hangover of luxourious campus, fellow mates, a different life remains and we get on to work. Happiness who cares. Well find it later on. We are busy right now.
Some months down the line we realize