Today when i look back at my life and try to figure out what are the things that encouraged, boosted me, helped me to acheive something.....answers were strange.....most of people get encouraged by parents, teachers, then beating by parents or bribing like if u score so much marks i'll buy you a cycle.....during my time, cycle sounded so good but i dont think 2days kids would settle for less than a bike....haha
Well getting back to things that power me up are pressure, embarassment, pride, someone taking me granted and saying you can't do this.....when saying all these things i mean some sensible stuff only.....not something like someone saying i cant run faster than bus or car i will accept it, am not superman or rajnikanth....:-).....
To support above factors i would narrate a few incidents in my life, as a kid i was not interested in studies, only thing i would think about studies is, studies are important and i have to just pass through and get to next standard....parents saying, that one's son got distinction, he came 1st, why can't you??? nothing mattered to me at all....listen from one ear n leave from other stuff i used to do....To narrate about pressure i felt it when me and my friend sam(name changed) went to visit darshan(name changed) during 12th preliminary exams....both started discussing about papers....i couldn't understand so much of stuff what they were talking about, to my suprise i dint even hear about most of things.....darshan's mom noticed my face going blank and she consoled me you will make it son dont worry, while sam and darshan laughing seeing at my face....that was the time i felt the pressure and studied hard and was able to achieve passing marks in prelims exams, failing in one....Chemistry paper i scored 39 and 40 was passing marks....i found a place where i could earn that one mark....once my Chemistry teacher gave me that one mark she said "people like you can't do better than this"......Now to prove myself i studied very hard for those 20-30 days gap between preliminary and board exams and scored PCM of 77%.....I managed to get admission in 2nd best engineering college in Goa, now you will say wow! 2nd best....nothing great in that 2nd best, there are just 3 degree colleges in Goa...:-P....I met that same Chemistry teacher on one of my juniors football tournament....Smilingly, she asked so what are you doing now???.....Moment i said engineering in PCC,she was like what???....hahaha her expressions were priceless.....
Speaking about embarassment, during my school days teachers forced me to participate in a seminar after which there was a debate infront of almost whole school.....just imagine what would happen to a student who would hide his face even when teacher asked any question in a class and teacher trying to find a student to ans it, when he was forced to enter a debate that too infront of whole school.....that scared the hell out of me.....before that i had faced stage just once when i was in 1st standard, i had to go on stage and say "I am Mr. Nobody"....seeing such a big crowd i forgot that also....haha....after around 20 seconds i remembered that sentence....i was like thank god.....Ok now coming back to debate after seminar i was assigned a topic "education should be compulsory".....i wrote a speech on my own, rehearsed it well but seminar person dint find its contents good enough....so now when 2 hrs were left for seminar to start he changed my speech and i had to memorise it......it was a disaster......when seminar started, seeing the crowd i was half scared and my throat got all dried up, no water was there on stage....moment my turn came i couldn't speak well, voice started kind of cracking....it was like an old cassette being played....haha....i was a stock of laughter for entire school......You ask me about my mot embarassing moment....here it is.....But that did not give me stage fear like it would do to most, instead it boosted up my confidence levels so much that i could talk infront of crowds in future....what i would think of was how much more bad can happen to me than that stage incident....
Finally let me brief you guys about pride.....Slow cycling event happened to be most popular event during my higher secondary school days, i could slow cycle very well, infact i could balance my cycle at one place for lot of time.....i won my 11th standard competition with ease.....my friends had lot of expectations from me for slow cycling event in 12th also....but by 12th lot of my peers practised slow cycling and could balance cycle just the way i could.....there were 2 practice sessions in which i came 2nd and 3rd.....when my friends asked me wht the hell i was doing....i lied saying that i allowed them to win practice sessions....:-P......day before finals i practised the hell out of me, i could not even sleep properly night before that since my pride was on the line....boss then results were satisfying, i won it again.....what a relief it was!......
Regards,
Jayesh :-)
Well getting back to things that power me up are pressure, embarassment, pride, someone taking me granted and saying you can't do this.....when saying all these things i mean some sensible stuff only.....not something like someone saying i cant run faster than bus or car i will accept it, am not superman or rajnikanth....:-).....
To support above factors i would narrate a few incidents in my life, as a kid i was not interested in studies, only thing i would think about studies is, studies are important and i have to just pass through and get to next standard....parents saying, that one's son got distinction, he came 1st, why can't you??? nothing mattered to me at all....listen from one ear n leave from other stuff i used to do....To narrate about pressure i felt it when me and my friend sam(name changed) went to visit darshan(name changed) during 12th preliminary exams....both started discussing about papers....i couldn't understand so much of stuff what they were talking about, to my suprise i dint even hear about most of things.....darshan's mom noticed my face going blank and she consoled me you will make it son dont worry, while sam and darshan laughing seeing at my face....that was the time i felt the pressure and studied hard and was able to achieve passing marks in prelims exams, failing in one....Chemistry paper i scored 39 and 40 was passing marks....i found a place where i could earn that one mark....once my Chemistry teacher gave me that one mark she said "people like you can't do better than this"......Now to prove myself i studied very hard for those 20-30 days gap between preliminary and board exams and scored PCM of 77%.....I managed to get admission in 2nd best engineering college in Goa, now you will say wow! 2nd best....nothing great in that 2nd best, there are just 3 degree colleges in Goa...:-P....I met that same Chemistry teacher on one of my juniors football tournament....Smilingly, she asked so what are you doing now???.....Moment i said engineering in PCC,she was like what???....hahaha her expressions were priceless.....
Speaking about embarassment, during my school days teachers forced me to participate in a seminar after which there was a debate infront of almost whole school.....just imagine what would happen to a student who would hide his face even when teacher asked any question in a class and teacher trying to find a student to ans it, when he was forced to enter a debate that too infront of whole school.....that scared the hell out of me.....before that i had faced stage just once when i was in 1st standard, i had to go on stage and say "I am Mr. Nobody"....seeing such a big crowd i forgot that also....haha....after around 20 seconds i remembered that sentence....i was like thank god.....Ok now coming back to debate after seminar i was assigned a topic "education should be compulsory".....i wrote a speech on my own, rehearsed it well but seminar person dint find its contents good enough....so now when 2 hrs were left for seminar to start he changed my speech and i had to memorise it......it was a disaster......when seminar started, seeing the crowd i was half scared and my throat got all dried up, no water was there on stage....moment my turn came i couldn't speak well, voice started kind of cracking....it was like an old cassette being played....haha....i was a stock of laughter for entire school......You ask me about my mot embarassing moment....here it is.....But that did not give me stage fear like it would do to most, instead it boosted up my confidence levels so much that i could talk infront of crowds in future....what i would think of was how much more bad can happen to me than that stage incident....
Finally let me brief you guys about pride.....Slow cycling event happened to be most popular event during my higher secondary school days, i could slow cycle very well, infact i could balance my cycle at one place for lot of time.....i won my 11th standard competition with ease.....my friends had lot of expectations from me for slow cycling event in 12th also....but by 12th lot of my peers practised slow cycling and could balance cycle just the way i could.....there were 2 practice sessions in which i came 2nd and 3rd.....when my friends asked me wht the hell i was doing....i lied saying that i allowed them to win practice sessions....:-P......day before finals i practised the hell out of me, i could not even sleep properly night before that since my pride was on the line....boss then results were satisfying, i won it again.....what a relief it was!......
Regards,
Jayesh :-)
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