Was it the Egg or the Hen? Was it the Ink or the pen? Was it Batman or
Superman? Was it the Gates or the Jobs? To be precise, will it be you or them?
Somewhere, someone had read once, “You may not be the next Bill Gates, you may
not be the next Steve Jobs, But you can be the next you!” To speak is easy, to
write is even easier, to act on what we write, speak and feel is all that
matters! Yes, nothing else matters.
When we were born, there were a
dozen around us celebrating our arrival into the mother earth. Sweets to all,
party to some, smiles on few. We grew up to a stage, where we learnt to walk,
learnt to eat and were taught to speak. Later, a zillion amount of words,
sentences, phrases, poems, algebras, geometries, theorems, theories, his law,
her law, differentiation ,integration, that guy’s history, how he won it, how
he lost it, where that land is, how the geography is, and also some part of
moral sciences once a week or twice. Total chow-chow bath for all the brains
and some more of it parcelled to home. Our body was in the chair where we
studied, but soul was in the road where we all wanted to play. But it was that
Mammoth Cane that our mom had with her always which kept us notified on where
our mind actually belonged to. We showed interest in studies, slept lesser,
missed school trips, skipped a couple of weddings of our cousins, wept for
scoring 85 instead of 95 and what not! All that we did was to make sure that
our Mummies n Daddies were happy for what we did!
There was a moment when we were
asked about our future plans. One said Doctor, another Engineer, another IAS,
another Filmmaker, and another Driver! Yes, as a guy we wanted to be a Driver,
and as a girl it was to be a nurse or a teacher! It was our tender minds which
made us give a firm stand on what our future’s supposed to be. After all our
explanation, the common dialogue we received from Mummies n Daddies is, “ Adannaaa…Engineering
maadid mele madkobodhu”. With that belief, we set our walk directly to our
classroom, full happy happy, lovely lovely. Friends apart, each in different
colleges, all wanting to be together, and the much needed desperation followed.
Teacher enters classroom, says
out loud, “Open the windows, let the air force come in! Ssshh.. Silence, the
principal just passed away” Like these, there are many who kept boasting about the
funny dialogues used by their teachers which supposedly happened “In their
College”. If noticed, everyone would argue that these dialogues were by a
teacher of “their college”. In reality, would it have happened so? Would any
teacher have spoken so? Well... Newton only knows. Because, if it wasn’t for
Newton, and if it wasn’t that Apple which fell on him, we would not have been
Engineers now! If we weren’t Engineers, we would not have to look for the
colour of the blue solution!
Somewhere, we may all feel that
the world is being dumber than ever! The only anchor supporting this thought is
the world which we are living in. The interest we had over our career might
have taken a detour in recent times. The coffee had during sunrise has now
shifted to sunset! The breakfast that our mummy prepared is almost long
forgotten! Another few misses of our cousin’s weddings! Once we weren’t
satisfied for an 85, which has now directly cut short to a 35! Well, there are
cases where we score a 30, 60 and 90! This is exclusively new and prominently
expertise by most of us now. A smoky breath, a hung over morning class! Stinky
denim! And an Old Spice deo to stay fresh!
Management of available resources has been the most effective activity
that we are all into.
Today, if we were given an
opportunity to choose what we wanted to be, there would be a definite “White
Screen without dots” in our vision! Days pass by, our memories from the past
get filled up as a backup. Blinking like a lost soul with a poker face will be
more. As days pass by, we would tend to surrender with what we have, rather
than win what we want! We all have the power to be what we want to be, it’s just
the right lane selection that matters. Again, nothing else matters.
(7 out of 10 would have had a quick peek into their phone’s
notification by now!)
An apple a Day, keeps a Doctor
away. It is the apple for which we need to be grateful about. If it wasn’t for
that apple, and what if it was something else which fell on Newton? The World
without Engineers! Just imagine, how good or bad would it be! Now that we are
in the lane which has so many travellers, choosing whether to be here or not is
upto us.
There is no sincere motive in
making you read this. May be you could consider this as a short reminder of the
future you all aspire. If you are really serious about it, start acting on it ASAP!
Do not let the world overcome you, and please do not blame the ones around you
for you not able to achieve it. No human is a master in decisions; it is the
experience which best serves in making any. And that is eggjactly why we
reached here. Sometimes, life may be confusing as much as these sentences are
to you right now!
Confusion leads to chaos, Chaos
makes us blank, and it is the blank sheet which can either be torn, or
converted to a handicraft, or decorated with amazing colours. It is definite
that we all have highest respect to the apple which fell on that man. An apple
a day, keeps the doctor away. And I’m sure not all wanted to be Doctors, not
all want to be film makers, and not all want to be Drivers! Whatever we are, we have to be proud of ourself. The best way to love this world is by loving ourself first :)
As a human, Engineer yo’r
life the way you seek it to be. Success follows soon.
