Going to US. Is it a big deal???

me: I am going to so and so univ.
x: Oh great!!! So your life is set..
me: (What to say on this?)
me (To myself) :Ghanta!!! New life is gonna start now, forget about setting up.
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me: yaa, I am going for higher studies to US.
y: Wow!!! So, are you gonna come back???
me(To myself) : In which world do you live, buddy??? I am not going to another planet :P :P :P
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z: Remember me when you go there.
me: Come on, How can I forget you?
me(To myself): I am not suffering from amnesia, dude :P
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Now a days I am facing such countless occasions. People get euphoric with the thought of going to US. They forget following things:
1. I am going to US to study. Uncle Sam is not waiting there for me with red carpet pulled.
2. I will have to start living independently, something I have not done for past 21 years of my life.
3. You get dues if you work hard, is the ultimate truth of life. It is applicable everywhere in the world (Amrika included). I won't be getting anything on silver platter.
4. US is no more a country which is 7 seas away from here.

Sorry for mocking all my well wishers. I just want to say take it easy. It is a usual affair. I know you love me, you hope for my best and I am very very grateful for that. :)

Confidence, Trust & Hope.

Life can never be certain. Somethings always remain beyond control. Following are not my words. But they aptly put what I want to say:

CONFIDENCE
Once, all village people decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer all people gathered and only one boy came with an umbrella.
That's Confidence

TRUST
Trust should be like the feeling of a one year old baby when you throw him in the air, he laughs......because he knows you will catch him. That's Trust

HOPE
Every night we go to bed, we have no assurance to get up alive in the next morning but still you have plans for the coming day.
That's Hope

HAVE CONFIDENCE, TRUST YOURSELF & NEVER LOSE HOPE.


Keep Smiling :)

Zindagi ke safar mein gujar jate hain jo mukaam....

I never thought I would feel so sad while leaving VJTI. Yesterday and the day before that, when everybody was saying goodbye, I hardly realized that it could become our last meeting. Slowly the feeling is sinking in. People with whom I laughed, wrote (i.e. copied :D ) tons of assignments, did dhamaal in canteen, sat leisurely in quadrangle, partied at Garnish, Central Peninsula, will not be with me tomorrow.

Then my other mind says that its a part and parcel of life. You go from one place to another. You meet new people, you make new friends. Life is to be lived in present, not in past.

I learnt a lot in these four years. I saw few ups and downs. I met some of the finest minds and purest hearts. All I am going to take ahead are these golden memories of VJTI.

A chapter closed in my life. New chapter begins. And I am ready for it with arms wide open.

Few lines which aptly put my current state of mind:

"Zindagi ke safar mein gujar jate hain jo mukaam
Woh phir nahi aate.. phir nahi aate...."