It is never easy. Never has been, never will be. It is always like that, the fight against yourself, your peers, against the doubts of many around you. But sometimes you tend to believe your instincts, instinct which is one thing that is yours when everything in this world abandons you. I somehow firmly believe in these instincts. You have got to respect those instincts inside you and sometime in life you got to do something for them. You owe them; they are the living example of the life inside you.
I will depict a simple story, simple yet powerful.
I know of a boy who prepared for IIT-JEE as every other youngster of his age does. He prepared in very adverse conditions and then when the 12th class result came, he got 56% (you need 60 to fill the form). Hopelessness was all around. Sharks smelled the blood and came to rip him with suggestions of joining some local engineering college. His brother and I just could not take it. I sat with this boy and asked him what did he thought about it. He simply told that he wanted to take a drop and take a shot at it.Instinct. I told his brother to let him take the chance. This brave heart took a drop, didn’t join any coaching that year (just a test series), took 12th exam as a private candidate in the drop year, secured 72% there and got through JEE that year. He is in IIT- Roorkee now.
This is one story which I know of. There may be many others like this which all of you know of. I told this story, may be to remind all of you of those stories. I told this story to just put a point on choices. Choices those are sometimes impulsive, instinctual. Sometimes they are right, many a times they are wrong. But more than being right or wrong it is the satisfaction to choose which tastes as sweet as nectar, even in failure. Someday in life we all are faced with a choice. It is that instant which decides everything that follows.
Instead of judging what is right and what is wrong I will stop right here with this.
Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
What followed, we all know.
2 comments:
choices made by practical people and chances taken by the adventurous ones..well written
This is one of your best blogs ...... Indeed instincts are very remotely given its due.. Instincts directly connects to your heart and one should always follow no matter what the consequence ....
Very well articulated. Well written.
Wondering why did i not comment before !
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