Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Exit Number 3: Delhi-Gurgaon Highway

Exit Number 3 on the highway : Left- Gurgaon , Right - T3 International Airport

Somehow that exit sign did not leave my head for a while, until it struck me a few days earlier, it was the junction of my current state of mind.

Toughest choice to make, bigger consequences to face. Sitting on any random September 2011 day, I was making that choice every single second. Weighing the pros and rechecking the cons, the choice of a lifestyle to choose was being slipped under the carpet every other day.

Do I pick up my bags (along with a little dose of family ignorance) and proceed to higher education or drive left to Gurgaon where tiny ambitions were kindled in sky scrapers?

Others found it so easy to answer this dilemma for me. They said do what your heart says. Little do they know: the heart does not pay for education and also does not get you a job later!
Some said: Once you start working, there is no chance you will be able to get to studying later. I thought, if I don't work, how will I miss my uni life? arghhh such a mess.

With Imperial Business School offer knocking on my IP address, I thought even though it was my dream to study there, but was it so easy to get it? Was I exceeding any boundaries to dream or remaining within borders looking at the closest star?
It brought back some memories of someone telling me "If you keep achieving all your goals easily, you are keeping your goals too easy!" If it was that simple to get whatever I wanted, then why didn't it seem like an absolute choice?

This thought drives me to work everyday. A job, I thought I would never nail, a responsibility I never thought I could handle. To be able to achieve something that I never thought I would is giving me more happiness than I had thought. Things always have a way of teaching you something, sometimes in ways you never thought.



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