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The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

So, my journey has been without direction. There has been speed but no direction. I will be detailing it here but without any specific details being disclosed.

I was born in Haryana, went to study in Mussoorie, then since my family shifted to Delhi, studied and completed schooling in Delhi. I passed-out with pretty good marks. Got into a college of D.U. Completed three years of college, couldn’t clear CAT in the final year. Dropped a year, cleared CAT, got a decent percentile, joined an MBA college into a programme that I really didn’t want.

All along I didn’t know what I wanted and neither did I put in the effort to achieve it. I was wandering without any direction whatsoever, without any purpose either, building ego and not realising that I didn’t have any skills (really any) to survive. I participated in college societies, did internships too but without any purpose and failed to realise my drawbacks as I was never shown the mirror.

My biggest drawback–lack of communication, immaturity.

Now the story takes a turn.

I joined (without purpose) the MBA college with lots of energy, with the aim to learn, but unaware of the fact that I didn’t have any skills needed or a good prior experience to give direction to my career. I joined with the purpose to get a job and not build a career.

As I got into the college, I realised that it was very competitive and not suited to my laid-back attitude but I was willing to improve. I slogged through the committee selection rounds, got selected in a good committee, worked for it too. Conducted a competition, really working in a team for the first time. But the politics of the team and the college was way too difficult for me to handle as I had lost the human contact and had become a book-worm. All I wanted to do was to impress!

I really wanted to get placed. The companies started coming. I didn’t know what, how, why to prepare. Got selected for a finance company when internally I knew that I didn’t know the ABCD of finance but my ego was too big to realise any of that. Got rejected in the first round. Was unable to handle the rejection because that is when I realised that I was slogging through it all without searching for myself. That is when the mirror was shown to me. Hardly in the face.

I didn’t take any experience or tried to know my interest. I just joined and did things for the heck of it. I hadn’t ever worked in a team and had never really tried to improve myself.

Now I realise that my attitude toward people, my seniors, my teachers, my peers/colleagues, the staff, everybody, was wrong. I had ego, was running from one point to the other, speed but no direction. I could have changed my attitude, worked hard towards my studies, my society, seminars, my placements. But then I quit again...WHY?

The most important thing that I learnt is to reach out for help and guidance(which I didn't--I just quit!), to know your strengths and weaknesses, to ask yourself and get the answer to the question—WHY? and to never lose the human contact. 

This question is the most important to live life purposefully. Ask why and get the right answer.

It’s important to be emotionally connected but more important is to get to the reality.

Now I have decided to drop out of the MBA college, gain experience through internships and re-start my learning curve, but this time with the purpose and the willingness to change and improve.

I don’t know that the journey has begun or not, that is yet to be seen.