Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Demagogue - The Chosen One

Living the life the way it is offered to you is peaceful, but at times one turns out to be violent!
I almost agreed for it, but " Wo Kehte hain na jo hota hai ache ke liye hota hai; Galat kehte hain".

Life would have been much more peaceful and calm had I done the expected, but as the unpredictable mind pushes, you lose control and let it go. One fine day, to suffice my restlessness, I offered myself to a friend and his group for an entrepreneurial initiative of theirs and to my surprise they gave a positive response, some meetings were fixed and rest all is history. Almost an year has passed and I still lay restless, clueless, finding what lies in the box of life, full of energy, questioning every bit, yet moving ahead to do the undone.

This journey has been unabridged up till now. It is the moments spent here which would make a perfectly knitted dream come into reality one day. Destiny leads you to places, people, situations, sadness, happiness to its greatest heights and to its worse, but with it, it also gives the courage to deal with it. All this has lead to a point, where I have taken rough decisions, , criticized myself, appreciated insult, respected the wrong for the right, challenged myself and more to come as time passes by, but all of it just so much worth it! The times have been enunciating, demanding me in places of my disinterest yet important, irrespective of my tiresome efforts to avoid such situations.

Past is all gone, and now what lies in front of me are a handful of resources, ready to blow off. Five people, some vague vision to make an entrepreneurial initiative-a software company be the fortune of hundreds one day.

By the way, it all started by a small online game "Demagogue - The Chosen One" but we chose it for a little longer than it lasted. Things ain't the same now, they have changed; 2 people have left who were with us from the beginning, it feels kind of low at times, but the energy of the rest and passion from within fires-up and hold's us tight, firm into the cement making it difficult day by day with more energy than ever.

I am happy that I chose to be this way, life is never easy, it will never be, neither will it be peaceful at any point of time, it will just change its course to make you feel a certain way and will always win, to give you more, to make you achieve more, to make you what you want one day and that is all.

It all sums up in the end by contradicting myself and accepting, "Wo kehte hain na, jo hota hai ache ke liye hota hai, SAHI KEHTE HAIN"

Saturday, January 29, 2011

My Internship Experience- Krasnoyarsk, Russia

As a young & striving 19 year old, one may not experience life at its best, not because we are not ready to accept the atrocities of life, but just because our choices are not that critical.

On the contrary, I consider myself fortunate to make one such choice which competely influenced my self being. This choice was none other than choosing to go for an internship!

My unshaken trust in AIESEC to change lives eventually effected me after working for 2 years for AIESEC Chandigarh, India, when I applied and got selected for an education internship in Krasnoyarsk, Russiain summer camp. It was a journey whose leader and follower was no different but myself. My complete stay in an alien environment (initially) was a challenge on my face which I openly accepted and with the help of AIESEC Krasnoyarsk overcame victorius.

I would sum my internship experience as the most memorable and learned event that I could come across uptil now. I never wished to go back, but time is so unjust and cruel, it always passes by & all we are left is memories.

I wish to go back there, again get a pick-up by an AIESECer at the airport, have a homestay for a day with completely unknown people who just in a matter of day’s time become a family outside home, head for my camp where I am given the most amazing welcome by my students, again teach the same children every morning, go for bonfire with the whole camp along the riverside, scold my students to sleep on time every night, prepare lessons for them overnight, to be able to stand with honor and dignity & sing out loud my national anthem infront of more than a hundred people and being the only person to represent my country and at the end, meet all those people whom I never knew before I came, but came so close to me in this short span that I can never forget these friends who made my effort worthy of it.

All this was made possible because of AIESEC. I took this oppurtunity, now the question is do you want to experience the same.

It’s upto you!