Easier said than done, Sir

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This was something I had drafted during my vacations. Completing it now!

We all have fun during college. Though you curse the fact you've to get up each day to travel and sit in boring lectures, there are these most wonderful people on the planet called "friends" who keep you going. It's been over two months into our much awaited vacation and it's not quite what I expected.

So, how do you kill time? Stay online? Watch movies/soaps? Sleep? Well, they are fun for the first few days/weeks, make you feel like a free bird, thrilled and on top of the world. Give it sometime and things start to fade. So, to kill time and boredom, I started reading whatever I could get my hands on.

Before we get started, let me tell you the only fiction I've liked is Harry Potter, but that was during high school. For a brief period, I stopped reading altogether and now am back. Biographies, case studies, business articles are my cup of tea. Having read a few, a similarity stuck me in all.

The success stories are generally from those brought up in a normal middle class or poverty stricken families. The authors go on and on about how their childhood lessons "helped" them at some point of time in the future. The success recipe seems the same in all; work hard, dedicate and get rewarded in the end. Is it so easy? Why doesn't anyone mention the role played by luck in their lives? When hard work meets opportunity, it's luck right? Why do most of these well known admit they were just there at the right time?

For these successful lot, lessons as small as drawing maps to having philosophical conversations with elders come in handy at some point in life. Talk like this is easy. During their youth, do you think all the choices they made were right? That they were as saintly as they are now? I don't think so. We all make mistakes and thats how we learn lessons in life. Giving free advice (or gyaan) is very easy, but following the same in every walk of life is tough, really tough.

One way of looking at it is that they do not want us to repeat their mistakes. But, times have changed. Competition is cut-throat and there is increasing pressure at all points of life, be it primary school or a business school. So, what can we learn from reading such works? Well, it's something I have not figured out (though their composure and focus during their worst of times is inspiring, also clearly telling us never to forget our goals and achieve them). If you've found something more meaningful and thought provoking, please feel free to let me know.

Until next time!

Comments

Puneeth said…
More than the post, I liked the new look of your blog better. :P
November 25, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Tejus Subbanna said…
Hmmm..that's ok, but what's your take on the post?
November 25, 2010 at 9:50 PM
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