Become a Masterpiece

It is completely inevitable that every one of us have experienced such a situation where we wish we’d be lucky than the other person.

Every situation becomes so easy to understand when we relate it with a real incident of our lives.

Let me consider an analogy between the described situation and an incident of my life.

Everyone is running like a horse after success. While on a mediocre day when I and my friend were having a cup of coffee, he arose a captivating question against me, “Is a person who achieves success has more knowledge or a person who is facing nothing but failure?”

Seeming quite an obvious question, I spent half a minute after which I answered spontaneously favouring the successful person. He grinned and just nodded his head in denial. And I was like, ‘WHAT!’

His expression quite calm and relaxed and on the contradictory, I was here drowned in confusion and completely bewildered. He answered to my confusion, “When a person becomes successful, there are 90% chances that he will get satisfied with what he has achieved and refuses to proceed further. Even if he does, he would follow the same path.

Consider a failure in place of him who works too hard but success is not even in his sight of vision. If he is passionate about his goal, he will leave no stone unturned to achieve what he deserves and what he wills to. He will find more ways and dig out more tunnels for his way to success which the other person couldn’t. Hence, the failure will get more experience than the successful person. The failure actually wins here.”

I frowned, but completely agreed with what he said. No longer did thoughts start to flood my mind then he added, “We are, to a good extent habitual to criticize our lives. When a person is facing a problem, his basic instinct will surely point out a negative point no matter how good the incident might be. We all have the habit of focusing on the impurity when we are holding a block of gold.

Are we trapped in a situation where we are suffering a lot? Take the best advantage of it. We mull over it, and cry that we are unlucky and etc etc… Instead, why not give a thought that it will give us an experience of a lifetime. It will give us a memory others won’t have. It can help to develop our personality to a great extent.

Failed in an exam? You have an opportunity to study again and achieve virtuosity over it. Darn! You can become one hell of an expert!

Had just faced a break-up? Be placid, cling to self-respect and be euphoric. It is really a dark shade but the upcoming rays are worth the wait.

Got kicked out of a job? Good, in fact, great. The company just lost a chance to work with you while you have so many companies as an option.

All these things, all these perceptions help one to be

unique, to stand apart from the crowd, to get distinguished from the common colours, to build a person into a masterpiece. A masterpiece is not born, he is transformed into one. Just your way to see the world matters, just the way to see your world!”

I was completely spellbound by the charm in his words and the spark in his eyes to achieve something substantial in his life. We wished each other good luck and parted. Just a few moments after we parted our ways, a car passed by me whose one wheel fell in a puddle of mud water and, SPLASH! It took less than a second to turn me into a ‘chocolate’! I had already murdered him a 1000 times in my mind and was just going to open my mouth to shower him with words of insult but my inner subconscious pulled me on a safe side. All my anger flushed down and I smiled at myself. Why should I not smile, I got a class of my anger management all for free! Great, isn’t it? And it was all after which I took a vision towards my life, not just a look!

The Interview

This anecdote is not a story, not an article. It is just a thought that needs to be inculcated in every person who goes for interview of a job.

Before I start upon the topic, I just want you to take a piece of pen and paper. Do it. Done? Now, write down all the stuffs you will say about yourself in the interview.

I am sure that many people start by saying their name, their field and much more but when it comes to any quality that makes them stand apart from the crowd, their mouths just get sealed. Why so? Are we facing lack of talents? I don’t think so. What we lack is the power of discovering one’s inner self. We all are stuffed with a brobdingnagian pack of talents. I will just give you a very simple example. Explorers travel round the globe and discover the very intensifying nature of earth, getting familiar with the real beauty while being so simple from the outside. It needs a peep in ourselves to know that we too, like the earth are full of majestic crops of skills and talent. Know yourself.

Coming onto a higher level, people concentrate on getting job for themselves more rather than thinking of their contribution to the job if they are recruited. This is the most common anxiety after every interview hall.

“Will they select me?”

“Will they be impressed by my scores?”

“How much will I get paid?”

My friends, after you get a job, no one is going to ever ask you how much you scored in school and college. All they will ask is what you can do and what you will do for the organization. No company needs a person who just limits his brains to his own earnings and benefits. Moreover, if you just keep it upto your salary, you won’t enjoy the job and the aftermath won’t lead you to promotion. Instead, if you love what you do and serve for the organization, respect from all the colleagues and even the CEO will knock your door.

Moving on the ultimate issue, the depression. No, not actually depression, it’s actually exaggeration. Exaggeration on the denial if not selected. One thing that is out of my sense is why do people mull and contemplate so much over not getting selected in a job. I know it is a serious topic but life doesn't end there. Sandeep Maheshwari has very beautifully said that if you get a job, that’s good. If not, that’s even better. You will get an opportunity to do research on some other company.

True, if you do not get a job, no need to sit with hands on your lap and cry. There are so many ways to earn money. And like I said in my anecdote “The best servant but the worst master”, money is all stored up in your brains. So never ever cry on not getting selected by one or two companies. It is not your loss; it is their loss that they lost a creative mind that would have helped their organization to level up.

An interview is never too complicated as it seems. You just have to keep two things with you: optimism and your originality.

Go for Hustle, Go for Glory

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Regret over not initiating a step kills more dreams than the failure suffered during implementation of that dream!

I sit on the window, visualizing the beautiful sun rise, in my cool atmosphere, the sweet of chirping of birds stimulate my ears, gentle breeze tend to kiss my cheeks, the rays of the Sun reaching out to me, embracing me into itself and the amalgamation of various notions in the convolution of my brain. I keep aside those notions, after all who would fall in that complexity and ignore the beautiful scenario!

I give a head start to my day, getting involved with the college paper works which adds weight to my shoulders and need to be completed as soon as possible. Yes, it is that boring, bug-creepy schedule of mine that consumes me everyday and spit me out at the end. But no worthy thing in this world is available at ease. Everyone works hard; everyone in my office has the same bulk and earns the same amount of buck. Then am I the same like them? Do I belong to the flock of the driven?

You need to shut up and focus on your work to earn your bread, my subconscious mind commands me as my mind goes off the track and I resume my ‘take my life and kill me’ stuff.

It is lunch recess from my day and ah! I take a sigh of relief but I am aware that it is not going to last long. No longer did I take a relief when I saw my old amigo, my school buddy.

“Hey Ram, over here!” I scream out his name, hoping his eyes could catch me. I see him still the same; the same spiky hair, the same ‘I am The Boss’ personality, the same fair tone of skin. An amalgam of correct charisma one can say!

Starting a conversation with him, we talk about our early school days and the present life. No wonder he was a scholar. No, don’t mistake him to be a nerdy type. He is an intellectual psychopath. And he has his hands reached out in almost every direction to learn every possible thing. Damn! He holds the personality; he holds the class of a Gentleman.

We talk about our dreams we had and yes, I have an opportunity to put my notions to my tongue. I can hear my subconciousness being silent as a dumb this time, not commanding me to focus of my daily weary work.

I see him reaching to the niche of his life, where he always wanted. We both sailed in the same boat but I chose to toss it but he continued his sail. Suddenly, I feel like I am on level 999 of stupidity. What if I had given up on my laziness! I can at least assure that I won’t be working for this energy-clenching job. I still remember how he worked hard and smart to achieve his ambition and I used to gaze at him. He encouraged me to his fullest, but I always gave an excuse that such a pace was not my cup of tea and he hated this negative thought of mine. As soon as I used to speak this, he frowns and says, “Make sure I don’t get to hear this again!” But lazy me, I always said the same thing.

I sink into the nostalgia when suddenly he gets up, looking at the time and his mouth wide open. He is late for his meeting, as told by him and he took a leave. I am left here, all alone and dragged back in time. I put my head in my hands, scolding me. I wish I would have taken a step. I even had someone to hold my back, who would help me reach the summit, who would give a push but I was quite outrageous.

I have no such person today in my life who can encourage me so much like he did. And I feel quite sorry for myself. Not everyone gets such a push and I was one of those among the lucky ones.

Today, I regret it the most in my life that my friend wanted to move ahead, at the pace of a bullet but wanted to carry me along with him towards success. I want to say to all you guys that never let go of the opportunities you get. Everyone is born the same; no one is born with a user manual. It is upon us whether to feed our hustle or our laziness. Learning something new is everyone’s cup of tea. Never have any kind of inferiority complex in your life and always hope for the best. You don’t need that kind of negativity in you. You are born to shine, not to be a dull!