Since my childhood, I was always told “Get a good score in 10th grade, and then life is set”. I didn’t score well, I scored great in fact. I have always been an obedient kid, you know. I felt this is it. I achieved whatever I wanted. No worries, no pain, life will be amazing from now on. I started to walk with my chin up. But wait, here comes the twist. Now I am told, the 10th is fine, “Get good marks in 12th, then life will be set”. I scored good marks. I am an obedient kid after all. I felt this is the end of all my grieves. Life will be top-notch from this point in time. But yeah, here comes the next twist. I was told, “Get a good university, then life is set”. Honestly speaking, I got a fairly good college. During my college days, I was told getting college is fine, “Get a good job then life is set”. I got an amazing job at my dream company ‘Siemens’. I believed there was no next thing, this is finally it. Then why masters?
I was enjoying my 10-6 job. The company was great, I had amazing colleagues. I was working with current-edge technologies. I even started to include some good habits in my daily routine. I was working out daily, eating healthy food, regular meditation, and others. Everything was going smoothly. Then why masters?
One fine evening, sitting on my 11th-floor balcony, enjoying the cool breeze with lemonade in my hands, I thought “Is my life set?, why did people keep telling me “do … your life will be set”, when will it be set?, when do I finally stop? what do people even mean when they say LIFE IS SET?”. My thoughts kept swirling. I began looking for the answers to these questions through introspection. I figured out something is bothering me, something is missing. What was that? It was a GOAL. Every time someone told me “Do this your life will be set”, I took it as a goal. And, I tried hard to achieve it. It is like a path, if you know the path, you will never be lost. Even after having such a great time at Siemens, my hunger for studying was not over. When I imagined going back to the university, It felt rejuvenating. Now, I have a GOAL.
The next challenge was figuring out the course. Mathematics is my all-time favorite subject and programming is my current interest. It gave me a notion to study Machine Learning. To stand on my choice, I did a couple of online courses, and then I was certain to study the same.
During all this time, One very important thing that I comprehended was “LIFE WILL NEVER BE SET”. No matter how perfect you try to make your life, you will always have challenges. But, that doesn’t mean you will settle and not work for betterment. It is certain to have ups and downs and that is what makes our life interesting. “BEING MONOTONOUS IS LETHAL”.
Set your GOALS, define your path, and Never settle.
I hope you enjoyed reading and felt motivated.
Stay tuned !!!
Abhijeet
