Success....

Success....
Success? A tricky word and enticing too.Hearing that word makes us carve an image of a triumphant human being jumping high in the air in such a way that can make an Olympic gold medalist jumper to review his inherent skills. What this word means to us? How desperate can we become to achieve it? And most importantly how to achieve it? are the questions that waver through our mind at various times.It has been said that If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.Then what exactly success is? Is it relative too? Or can we define success in absolute terms?If we analyze this word on classical terms then we can say-" Success is a never ending journey" If it is a journey then how to get our seat reserved and reach the final destination?I would have loved to answer all these queries if there had been any answer at all. To start with our mission of finding true sense of success, I would like to tell you an anecdote.Once there was a farmer living on the suburbs of a city. He had a dog that had an innate desire to chase the vehicles passing through the nearby road. One day, one of the farmer's friends asked the farmer, Will your dog ever be able to catch any vehicle. A smile floated on the farmer's lambent face and he told his friend that it's not the question of whether his dog will catch the vehicle or not, what does matter is what the hell he will do with the vehicle after catching it. So it's a matter of your goal and your degree of desire to achieve it. Here in the case of dog, the desire was too high but the goal was not apt.So, if someday you reach your desired goal and doesn't feel elated, it means that whatever you visualized as your goal was in fact your error in setting your objectives.So, it was all about the acuteness and acumen of setting your goals but there is another dimension involved in the pursuit of success.
The desire to succeed is the driving force that leads to accomplishment of goals. Here one has to decide actually how desperate is he to achieve what he had set as his target. He has to work through thick and thin, without ever loosing his alacrity and agility even when the candle is burning at both the ends and the midnight oil goes out of stock. This life is very cruel; it takes hardly a second to make you fall from zenith to nadir.
Once an Olympian was asked about his game plan and preparation strategy. He answered something that has been imbibed by me as if anybody has carved on stone that cannot be erased by anyone. The Olympian said that I prepare all the time when my competitor is also preparing and when he rests, I think that this is the only time when i can get ahead of him by practicing more than him. This is the kind of zeal that takes a man to the Hall of fame.
I wish, I wish the topic had been so simple that the analysis can be performed on just these two parameters. But this term is relative too. A successful man cannot be defined in absolute terms. A poor maid servant can be a successful person by loving the work she is doing and by fulfilling all her aspirations. On the other hand a man who has lots n lots of money but is not happy because he had always wanted to do something else may seems to be a big shot success to others but he cannot call himself a successful man as real success is the success that comes on your own terms and it may not appear sweet to others but gives you a sense of satisfaction.

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Siddhartha

Are You Busy?

Hey come on , don't be a spoil sport.A whole group is pleading to you to come to a movie.
Just 3 hours in a whole week , that's what they are demanding for.But you have other priorities that you have to complete, you have other expectations to meet and certainly you have other plans than your muckle of friends.
you consider yourself as a masochist who abstains himself from all the luxuries of life and to live a life in clover is like a crime for you. I will not say that you are wrong.
Infact you are totally acute as far as bookish morals are concerned.
Right from your childhood, you are inculcated with the feeling that "Kheloge kudoge to banoge kharab" .You enjoy playing but you have a notion that you are wasting your time.It happens with anybody, any child who has not completed his homework is treated like a criminal.Is doing homework is the only measure of one's sincerity ? Does class performance has no meaning at all? So, I was talking about your busy schedule.You are busy and you feel happy that you are not wasting any time. you think that you are learning alot when you are at work with all your senses focussed.But this the most precious time , you are selling for a meagre learning.
If you had spent all you childhood and adolescence in your classrooms and tutions, cramming notes, formualae , theories of astro physics. etc etc etc, How can you compete with a full grown adult who has spent his childhood at field, shouting to alto of human voice for a mere catch in a cricket field, or hustling with pals for possession of a footbal, who knows exactly what is the joy of a hard fought victory and the despair of a lost match? He knows how to handle pressure at different stages of life.
You can easily see such persons around you, whom you consider your role model and finds them victor in each area they have ventured. Go and Ask them, what is the joy of bunking a class? what is a general tadi? and he will start as an eloquent speakers who can speak at length on almost any issues relevant to this milky way.This is the difference you will find between him and you, You may beat him in a single area like getting any particular problem solved related to your area but start counting the fields where you stand no chance against him and you will find the counter running like a delhi's auto rickshaw meter.
Someone has said "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives" . It takes a lot of ingrdients to make a delicious recipie , so how can a good personality be formed by pouring mere bookish knowledge. It has been an irony that we boast of indian culture and its values and shuns the basic teachings of our culture which teaches us that learning should be multi dimensional. World's first university at takshshila was under control of Chanakya and he stressed that students must spend 6 months of a year touring different parts of the planet and should summarize what they had learnt by meeting new people and visiting new places. Have you forgotten all these things? Oh I am sorry , I forgot that You are Busy. Are you really?