Sunday, May 29, 2011

I believe, and thus I am

Well a lot has been happening in this MBA life of mine. I have got tests and exams rushing at me. Quite analogous to cars coming at me in Bangalore. They all just seem to have one intention. Well at least I have one. Survive. And as they say " Its the survival of the fittest"
Just before the day of a test I was learning photography from a particular shifu( Chinese for master). Both of us were in actual terms irritated being confined to a room which quite closely resembles an enclosed cubicle from a not so distant work life I used to have.
We shot for like an hour or two after which I started on my hobby and i got myself so lost that it was only when my phone rang, I realized i had lost two - three hours. But what the hell, I enjoyed those moments.
I remember clearly going for the test. I had absolutely no clue on what were all the words going through my head. All I had was a belief I knew the subject.
The paper as usual went not so great. Did not answer anything with a iota of confidence and then after ten days when the result came out, it was Boom. I had got 82%. That's my highest score after tenth standard in any subject. Blue moon, red moon, whichever moon I was there. On top. And yet I failed to realize then how I managed to get that even after not knowing.
In retrospect,I guess it sits all in the belief, the power of thinking that I can do something well. That no matter what happens, I know I will come out on top. I will ride the wave.
Something similar happened to a project in which four of my class mates are working on together. We were well behind schedule till yesterday and we just kept thinking we know we can do this in a day. Yesterday we just sat down and voila! we were done with it. In a jiffy, as you like it, godspeed. It's all in the belief.
So well all this belief and trusting yourself changes the fact the fittest survive; if you believe you are good, then not only will you survive you will live. ( Only if pigs could fly might well have been used here, but that would be going a bit far off with this! )
I guess if each one of us believes she/he can be the game changer for tomorrow, then in all the real or nominal sense of the world they are going to be.

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