The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy!!!
Most of the times life moves at a brisk pace ‘n’ at the blink of the eye, each moment passes by. So it’s imperative for us to take some time out and look at the events in our lives that changed the course or have the potential of changing the course of our lives.
Since I am no exception of this phenomenon [yeps this is a deliberate choice of word], I too have taken decisions and have missed out on some or the others ‘n’ hence the aim of this write-up is to sum up those decisions and to keep a track that at which point the circle-of-life approximately is. [Again ‘approximately’ is a deliberate choice of word since if one knows the exact precision of the circle-of-life, the flavor of uncertainty from lives goes missingJ]
Always remember that life is full of choices but the important thing is to make the right choice at the right time.
Broadly I feel that we can classify decisions into two categories viz. conscious and un-conscious decisions
Decision not taken by myself...
Unconscious decisions -- Sadly not many of my decisions a conscious no and that’s how I learnt the harder way that whenever possible make the decisions even if the result is in future because a reviewed decision is always better than the one reached at the last moment.
When I look back at the last 10 years of my life, I reminisce the following checkpoints viz. trying for the SSB Interview at AFSB Dehradoon, joining engineering course, joining Satyam. The common pattern in all of these unconscious one’s were passion, lack of ground work / knowledge, lack of appropriate amount of openness to discuss things and to an extent lack of alternative choices.
An unsolicited suggestion to those “alike me” is that one need to be open to discuss things with peers, seniors ‘n’ even juniors and if you get this thing right, other will follow for sure.
These unconscious decisions also made me realize that raw talent can carry you forward to an extent or at max gets you one chance but beyond that it’s all about focus, determination and hard work.
Decision taken by myself...
Conscious decisions – By the end of 2008 for me [‘n’ others as well], I realized that “we always have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.” This got reflected in some of my decisions viz. joining CSC, to renaissance my post graduation aspirations and a few personal decisions.
The common pattern [in java, we term it as ‘design pattern’ and a manager would want to term it as correlationJ] is that there were some sort of planning ‘n’ informed decisions which were missing earlier all the way.
This also made me realize that careful planning coupled with passion, hard work and quest for learning not only makes one realize their potential professionally life but enriches personal life as well.
Another good thing that I realized is the power of reading. I felt some kindaa change in myself while reading good quality stuff which contributed to understanding of one’s own strength ‘n’ keeps you focused ‘n’ motivated and working northwards towards the goal.
I think the time doesn’t permit me to write further so I will wrap-it-up by mentioning a few lines….
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Cheers to life !!!
