The images of you
When I feel down
I see images of you
to get back on feet
and rise again for you
I don't believe in luck but I believe I am lucky. Not just lucky, but luckiest of all :)
There have been way too many caretakers for me. Starting from Mom to all the way till God. I have my family, my friends and my mentors with whom my buddy takes best care of me. When mom and me go for morning walk, we often remember all the amazing times and transformations we have been through. It looks nothing less than miracle. The initial couple of years were spent in slump and slums but still we got company of good neighbors. Then we moved to apartment house at Bhayander and with that good things continued. These things turned sour only when buddy wanted us to shift out of that place and get to where we currently are. Mom used to have concerns about our education, our growth and things like that but everything was nicely managed by buddy. To think of it, I did my school education in a good school with nice teachers with a minimal fees of starting 25 rupees per month in second standard to 60 rupees per month in tenth standard. Then got into good college where I got access to great teachers and best of the books in science. I don't think I ever paid more than 3000 rupees across 5 years of my college education. Never had to spend on books either with me getting foreign edition books on student loan from library for merely 100 rupees per year. I should and would not have been talking or equating anything of education with money/expenditure part. But then seeing the current plight of education and ruthless robbing I felt like writing this money/cost thing here. For some reasons, current society very nicely have started to believe that highly expensive institute delivers best education. Quite a disturbing line of thought. I never took any external assistance beyond schools. No coaching classes, no tuition.
Though I wasn't topper of my class either in school or college, but yet was pet of all of my teachers. Many of them have helped me beyond their educator's responsibilities. They always felt that I could have done better. They wished best for me and they did everything to encourage me but I was careless with studies. Would sleep in between studying even on exam eve day. Every year I promised them to perform better next time but never did. I am sorry to all of my teachers. They wanted to see me top the class but I just followed my free will and kept scoring 5th. But then honestly speaking, I should not have scored 1st anytime for lack of sincerity towards study. So whatever happened, happened right.
Completing Graduation in Bachelor of Science with second class is supposed to be a disaster thing. With engineering graduates finding it difficult to have breakthrough in IT career, me finding good spot in NCST is nothing less than miracle. Today when I look back at things, it looks as if someone up there sat down with pen and paper and did this whole planning for me. My first job as data entry operator helped me learn good typing speed at age of 14. Working as newspaper delivery boy (12+2 months) post that helped my good health. Working as marketing executive (17th year) helped me learn how difficult it is to establish faith in your client. Working as office assistant (18th year) at Bombay Hospital helped me understand the office culture. Working as testing personnel (19th year) in same place helped me learn the problems for system administrators that are often aroused by programmers. Working as trainer (20th year) helped my speech, my fluency in talking. And then getting into NCST (21st year), was and remains dream thing for me. Getting good work and getting in company of best people can do so much transformation to you, in and out.
No matter how careless and reckless I have been, I have always been blessed with the best.
The only thing that matters to me are good people and my buddy.
Funny, my only dream not happening is the worst nightmare I have :)