The pinch of Madness

No man has ever tasted success without a pinch of madness! And yes, this is true for no doubt. The fire in the eyes is seen in any person who wants to gallop towards the mountain-top, crushing every rock in between him.

Nevertheless the speed may get low, but the outcome of it is double the pace. The rage of achieving something is damn so addictive. The addiction struck Dharmin too while he was studying his mechanical engineering.

I walked down the room and there, like always he is busy doing something. One could never understand his time management. He wanted to learn every possible thing he wished to. Yes, you read correct, every possible thing. Cooking was found interesting? He wants to learn. Playing guitar fascinated him! He wanted to learn. No matter if it was of his use or not, no matter if it was related to his field or not, all that mattered was the madness he had to achieve something, actually achieve everything in life.

We often have talks together and today, he comes up with one. “Life is a very beautiful thing and too short to learn many things. And so, before I take away my respect to heaven, I want to conquer my interests staying here on earth and about my dream, I want people to say that Dharmin was a guy, who utilized his life perfectly!”

I gaze at him in interest. His words have the energy to fill any person with zeal, with excitement for life. And yes, you can now easily make out that he worked crazily hard to achieve his “everything”.

What do you all think, he must have been topped with success too early and settled his life, right? Trust me, his hard work to success ratio wandered around zero.

He never cares about success. What he wants is to try, to develop himself.

I worked for a company and was doing well. I often offer him with my few advices to do some normal service job. He just gives me a smile as if being asked something stupid. Curiosity overflows in me and I couldn’t resist asking him, “What makes you feel to do many things and not get tired of it?” His reply was worth a salute, “If I ask you to tell me one unique thing about yourself, would you be able to answer me?” I was left silent. I understood what he was trying to say.

He added, “You know what? Be mad, be crazy. You want me to go up with normal service job and make my life a futility? Hell no. I don’t want to be normal. It is as important as the letter ‘p’ in pneumonia.” I could feel the craziness he had for life, the insanity. He knew where he was going. I see the enthusiasm in his eyes while he frowns. He continues as I patiently listen, “I don’t want to repeat every day for 75 years and call it a life. I demand craziness from my life. Make yourself stand apart from the crowd. That is where you will be noticed otherwise no one can see you in the crowd. And I live my life. I control my life, not the life controls me. I rule my mind, not the mind rules over me.” His speech, his thinking so much inspiring and heart-warming! And the energy in his voice can possibly melt any person’s heart and rage the blood towards development.

He is a person who wants to move on, fly, walk, sprint, crawl, even fall but doesn’t want to stop. He moved with the light year and be so indulged in construction of his life that he spares no time for collywobbles. A man who cannot be tamed by luck because he believes in hard work and luck only comes to those who believe in hard work. And talking about him, hard work is one thing but he had the madness in him that took him all the way to the sky!

Make an excuse for Success

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Have you ever seen an ice berg? Only a part of it seen over the top of water surface whereas the maximum part is submerged below the water level.

Success is something which is visible to maximum people in the outer world but only the one who has achieved it in life knows that the boulevard through which he had travelled was a path of thorns and now a path of roses. People often misunderstand success as an easy thing to achieve. Yes it is undoubtedly an easy thing only if you have your mind clung to your determination. If you feel that if you try for 2-3 times and achieve the pinnacle of white collar job, I think you are sadly mistaken my friend. Rome wasn’t built in a day nor does success.

Deep, a very good friend of mine and my room mate as well, medium heighted guy with heavy brains was a kind of an intellectual person and his French beard gave the gentleman’s spark to his personality. Apart from studies, he had interests in cooking, football and most of all, writing stories that can incentivize people and help them develop moral values.

I used to often sit besides him, just quietly watching what kind of stuffs he write and trust me, no matter how low I feel, I get my blood raging through my body after reading his matter.

He had one big aim in life; to inculcate morality in people which is diminishing day by day. He wrote for others, not for himself. His notions were completely noble and hardly a person is busy-go-weary world of today’s would think to such a level. He often told me, “Ronak, people today are so much busy in increasing their financial status that they forget to feed their moral status. People are nowadays gaining attention by doing immoral stuffs rather than spreading goodness and morality and you know what’s worse? The society finds such things interesting and they give a boost to such people; people with good values are considered to be foolish and mad. Yes, we live in a fact that is like impossible to digest.” His face fell in sadness, his eyes had so much to speak, so much of pain that some people are been guided in wrong way.

“Deep, I have an idea which is worth implementing.” I jumped out of joy and I was confident enough I could help him. “Let me create a blog for you so that people can visit it, and can know your aim, your notions, your goodness towards morphing the society into a better one.” His eyes looked at me in some hope. Always reactive to try something constructive, he jumped, “What are we waiting for then?”

I helped him design a blog where he could put his thoughts into words and make is intentions viral via his blog website.

Being his cicerone, I guided him towards his future website and he paid attention so enthusiastically, like a small kid is looking towards a toy he likes the most. The aftermath was worth my efforts. He started uploading his anecdotes on his blog so people can read and he even gave an option for offline reading by downloading his stories.

He uploaded a few stories and went for the publicity of his website. Yeah, he got a good response but his mind craved for more. He wanted to energize people and create an impact on their mind and gradually, he even touched that star of his improvement. He endeavored so much just for welfare of the society. He would surely go ahead at great pace by doing such a good deed and that is thought to inevitable, doesn’t it? He rubbed his legs quite enough; his blog survived only because of his fixed determination and optimism otherwise it would have been crushed into despair if it was some other person than Deep.

I meanwhile was working on my application project. One can say that I and Deep were sailing in the same boat. We both had positive approach towards the society and we both worked till we sweated blood.

I had tough time in designing the code for the application which was quite a Herculean task for me. The coding was not that easy but I did not give up. Coding was done and application worked quite well except for the GPS tab in it. When clicked on it, the application used to crash. Searched on internet, surfed too many websites but none was of help. So close to my dream yet so far. I almost gave up. But Deep was such an optimist.

He optimized me and vice versa.

But even he was passing through the valleys of struggle. He ran from here to there, from the land to the sky. Everyone showered with so many appreciations and blessings on him but no support from a single person who could take him to the next level on the ladder of well-being.

From teachers to colleagues, from family to friends, he spread his ideas as far as he could. But he found no chain which could pull him up and make himself visible to the world. Deep was so much filled with zeal for his dream that he bunked his classes to take steps to spread his blog. He mailed many newspaper companies, asking to help is notions reach the people. Not just one but he mailed to every company of whose he got the contact but no reply. He spread awareness about his blog in his neighbourhoods but all he achieved was vanity.

Deep even let his ideas fly across the seas so that people can get aware about his blog in abroad too. But I always saw a smile on his face, despite of all this. He often said, “Ronak, we have come this far. I consider it to be completely preposterous if we even think to give up. People find excuses for failure. Let us make excuses for success.” And his words struck me like a thunder that filled me with bright vision and optimism.

Hard work always pays, whether sooner or later. And this was proved in our case. Finally we both got a platform to raise your thoughts and speak out our notions to the world. And I had got the limitation in my application solved for which, I searched in every possible place. Deep had the spark in his eyes, full of hope and willing to bring the transformation and I could think of nothing, but just breathe. Yeah, hope was still alive.

God seemed to shower his blessings upon us. We caught the pace towards our dream. No hindrance was valiant enough to subside our pace. Our hard work and never-give-up attitude help us come out with flying colours in our lives!

Emancipation

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[Azim Oliya, a very dear friend of mine is a guy blessed with gigantic power of knowledge and intelligence but he had endured the darkest hours in his life. This is an anecdote based on his life and his dream.]

The world is really a very, very beautiful place to live in. This techno-powered society, we live in a too advanced era where people twist their minds as much as possible to bring out their power. But is anyone aware that there are such minds whose power is limitless, no matter how much ever twisted? In fact that power of their minds can twist the technology of the world but they are suppressed by the society itself. Azim possessed that spark of nature.

College life starts with a new beginning of the change, improvement to be precise, in one’s life and so it was in mine. I was pursuing my aim to be a mechanical engineer where in my journey, Azim was my companion. He, a completely talented power-pack, was never seen as a friend by me and I never thought he would be. But God had different plans. We got to know each other shook hands with each other. What left me spellbound was his road of thorns through which he had a tough tread.

The society which has a face of Godliness can also wear the mask of Satan. Azim was born in a society where boys were allowed to study only till 7^th grade but not even that much for girls. Yes, I agree that it’s completely preposterous. But some facts are too bitter to accept. Azim was a rebel and had the ambition to tear apart the chain of the limits that tied his talent and emancipated himself. Not all are as brave to take a step like he did.

But the domination of darkness upon him didn’t end there. The green pieces of paper held a grudge upon his family as his family was not financially that strong. But where there is will, there is a way and that Mr. Talented had a tight bondage with this motivational thought and moved ahead. The determination to study crawled in his body and his father invested his sweat and hard work to educate him which was undoubtedly fruitful. Azim, later continued his studies on scholarships and accomplished his school life.

But he was a power-pack as I said. To cope up and to be financially stable, he helped his father to earn money and took a step to work at some places to earn and to conquer the ‘grudge’ of the green money. He worked under various institutions and organizations- in for a penny, in for a pound.

Azim later took a sigh of relief as he entered the niche and galloped on his pathway towards the shine of success. He is quite a talented, such a nonesuch guy; no obstacle is powerful enough to stop is pace. He has a vision that

EVERY CHILD IN INDIA MUST GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND MUST HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMPLETE HIS/HER EDUCATION. He wants every child to conquer the walls of domination built by the society and come up with their minds on fire.

Fellas, many students, bounded by such boundaries cannot explore their inner talent and fail to exhibit their ideas to the world in need. Why not lend a hand to this issue? Let us all encourage the ones with enormous brains. Let us broaden our minds and have an eye the ones who can make the Earth a better place. We all are busy in our lives, least concerned about others. Let us spend a few moments in this, and help the children gain the education that they deserve. As it is truly said-“The future of any nation lies in the youth!”