Spicy Tales of My Life

Blabber is random. The word random in the title is redundant I know, but cannot think of any thing better at the moment. So  you might have  to bear with it.I was wondering when was the last time I updated my blog. Couldn’t remember exactly but It was such  a long time back that the instance of it faded out of my memory. I had to refer to my blog archive to know that it was about 3 months back. I want to write but cannot think of any good tale in particular. I have decided to blabber some thing.

So much has changed in last three months. My admission into MBA program has changed my life in a way I have never imagined before. Going back to the class room is tough after a hiatus of 4 years and especially for a guy like me who is on the other side of  25,  it is definitely not  a  piece of cake. You are no longer a kid, and to sit in a classroom listening to a lecture is the last thing you’d like to do. But it’s no use cribbing as I have already made the choice to do things  the  hard way.

So many things happened in my college in such a short span of time. I have met a lot of people of so many different kinds. It was interesting to get to know all of them. I can say I haven’t met these many during the last four years  at my  work place. Last 3 months were eventful but all of it happened in the blink of an eye. Once these moments passed it felt like  three months were too short a time  for so much to happen in it.

These events created  a paradigm shift in my approach towards life. It was so easy to survive the life of a software engineer but to survive an MBA is to survive a cyclone that will uproot many of your beliefs. Never has been my life so tough rather felt so tough. So far there has never been a dearth of foolish people around me whom I could easily surpass to win a race. But here, I realized, there has never been a dearth of smart ass people to compete with. It is a challenge every day to stand apart from the crowd.

Some might call what I experienced initially as inferiority complex but it seemed a necessity around this place to constantly thrive along to survive the competition. I guess this is where people go wrong. Things like inferiority complex, jealousy etc. can bring bad things onto somebody but never anything good. People forget that their aim is to succeed but not to surpass some body. One should focus on things that one is good at and try to put his best efforts irrespective of how better others are at the same task. This is how real learning happens. A bit of envy is necessary in the competitive world but it must not release the negative energy inside. Why the hell am I giving this bloody lecture. I Just wanted to reiterate a few things to get everything straight in my head. Might not be an interesting read for you but just to drive away my writers block, this is the beginning.