Recently, I have been thinking about life and inspirations. If you think about it, God (theist)/Cosmos (atheist) has made life such that no day or second of our life will ever be repeated. We are born once, there was only one day when we were 1 year old. We cross 30 just once and each day is unique in the span of our life. A life, which was by design, never repetitive, how come our lives have become so repetitive?

Is it the social order of the society or is it an individual's mindset to get comfortable? We quickly get settled into our comfort zone and rarely venture out to do something new. We are either restrained by our own understanding of capacity, give too much attention to people around us or are inadvertently short term focused in our daily lives.

While it is not a suggestion to respond to an spur of the moment, or to always be analytical about every move, it is about trying something new with a reasonable risk. It's about taking the risk to drive the future forward. And, part of the ability to take risk comes from self-confidence, passion and hard work.

Best performers in the exam are those, who have practiced it so many times that it's not new any more when they are doing it for real. Sports is played on a field, but a lot of rigorous hours of practice goes into it so that on match day, your play does not have to be extraordinary to your own level. It will just be your play. As a child, I always wondered if something miraculous will happen on the exam day that I will become someone, or I am too young now, but as I will grow up, I will automatically achieve my aspiration. But, as harsh as the truth may sound, it was never the case. I learnt that I would have to form the path a step at a time to reach where I wanted to reach. It's like a tennis match. You would have to win the set to win the game and you would have to win each 40-30 to win a set. Thus, each service and each return counts.

My professor once told me - most people in the world know what they dont want, but few know what they really want. Out of those, few are confident and aspired enough to believe in what they want and pursue it. However, he also said that there is a realistic reach to what you can achieve. He said that a person need to know three things to reach where wants to reach. 1. Where he wants to reach. 2. What path would he take. 3. Where he stands today. He told me that when you figure out 1 and 2, think very critically about 3, always know where you stand today.

Chapters:

My aim of writing this book is not to talk about myself and come out as someone cool or stud. My aim is to provide an afterthought, a reflection, a fresh perspective on my past, which could become a learning for someone and an casual inspiration for another. It is to let people know that they are not alone in the world for where they stand. Someone else has been there and there is a path of hope. I must say that I am not terribly successful in what I pursued to become, but I do have walked long miles to get where I am today and have gathered experiences on the way.

Hard Work

Imagination

Perspective

Inspiration

Education

Failure

Music

Earth

Women

If I were to write a book on my destiny and life, I would find it very hard to find chapters for it. For, it will be more like a rhapsody, a laundry list of things that I understand. In that book, I will write about my love for music, my view on importance of education and importance of perspective. I will write in detail about failure. I will also write about inspiration and stubbornness to succeed. I will write about what it takes to become what you want to become. I will write about the easiest thing in life and the hardest thing in life. I will write about what it means to be a good human being.

In all of these things, there is a constant thread of a commitment to find out what I want to do and fight to achieve it. It's about hard work, intelligence and success, but also much more than that. It's also about imagination and inspiration.

I think that I will write such a book soon enough.