Thursday, January 17, 2013

Success: Hardwork or Luck?


Success: It is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with it… Unfortunately it has!


I would like to ask you all, is hard work one of the most important factors when one succeeds? My take- Hard work is not the only key to an individual’s success. However, although one’s effort plays an important role in one’s success, luck is also a very crucial element. The statement that luck has nothing to do with success is not true. In fact, we can see the influence of luck everywhere in our lives.


The obvious influence of luck on people’s success is whether they can meet the good guiders who are helpful in every stage of life. A good guider can help people in getting achievements. In school, the guiders are our teachers. We can benefit a lot from a good teacher, such as knowledge, virtue and custom. When we go to work, the guiders may be our bosses or our colleagues. We can also benefit from a good boss or colleague, like working experience and professional knowledge. Without these good guiders, people need longer time to succeed. 


There are many examples around us but finally, in many cases, luck itself decides the result of matters. We can see this very clearly from a blackjack game. It is very common that a smart person loses to a normal person. Although the smart one has the capacity to win and has taken efforts, it may lose only because of bad luck.



As a conclusion luck is also a very influential factor in one’s success just as hard work is. It not only decides our background of family and the people we meet but also decides the result of some matters directly. People cannot have gain, success etc. without good luck.



- Rohit Rajpal

Monday, January 7, 2013

2(Too) Social 2(To) Social Media!


As the months turn into weeks and weeks turn into days, there is some kind of thinking that has started to take its rounds in my mind. Few more days and I am yet another year older. I will be 22 years on 10 Jan'13. :o


I am not sure if everyone undergoing this phase of their life experience the same, but this time, for me it is getting a bit tough to think that I am indeed getting old.



I have already started thinking "Rohit is getting old"! I now realise that there are younger people than me walking around on Mother Earth. A younger generation and already, there seems to be a generation gap between me and the young folks. Now, edging towards the later part of the glorious period of any individual, as I look back into my past and try to analyse all that has happened in this short span, I realise that there were times when I had been free of any worries or hassles. My only ones used to be to win a fight over my younger brother, getting a brand new PC from my dad, trying to achieve more in online gaming, become the super duper online gaming hero of school. Small things that used to mean a lot to me.

As I look at my long list of friends (Facebook says I have 1054 friends), I stop to wonder if I am really doing the right thing in having so many contacts or acquaintances. It seems as if there is some strange pair of eyes always following you. Now being a Social Media Marketing Executive at OML since past 7 months with social networking sites and the urge to notify your list of anything and everything that you do, I don’t think there is any privacy at all in one's life but yes it’s an essential ingredient for a better taste in modern life.

As I think about the role of friendships that have been a part of me and my life, I start to realise so many things. There have been people who have been selfish, who have not understood me. Those whom I had considered very close have betrayed me and gotten the better of me, just for the fact that I let them to, in the name of 'friendship'.

Some of them whom I have considered close to me haven't been the best as I believed them to be. And also, now I realise that those whom I have lost contacts with, are the ones whom I miss and will miss throughout the rest of my life. Those whom I dint have the slightest idea of getting to know have been the ones who have made me smile when I cried, who always stand behind me in my happiness and tough time.

At times, or rather, always, I wonder why I am into this career. Is this what I always wanted to be? What happened to all my childhood dreams? Those early morning dance practice, those big competitions, those dream of National performances, those funky dance teams, those beautiful ‘Shiamak Davar’ classes, those million memories that were washed ashore in this ocean of life. The dreams that meant so much to me had been brutally murdered and laid to wither. Not that I am not doing good in what I am doing now. But the sense of satisfaction is one that this life lacks in terms of career. Still I love my job, I enjoy it because I am at OML. Something which I always desired to do has been a dream and is going to stay a dream. To pursue the dream at this point of my life is gonna be tough (Not impossible) and sometimes even scary and that's the reason why somethings are better left unaccomplished.
There are so many things now that I have started to ponder upon. Things that have become opinionated, starting to analyse each and everything that I have done and will be doing. I realise there are so many limitations to my life and the way I want to live. I can’t take my own decisions and I can’t lead my own life. But I still have to live it.

I sometimes feel lonely and insecure. Even with the hundreds of loved voices that would always be more than willing to lend an ear to my woes. But the thought of talking to friends over the same things, moaning the same laments is something that I have started hating. As I think of all this and more, I badly want to relive my past, the past that is slowly and steadily drifting away from me. 

I know I have got the best of life (I am working in OML) and also the worst of life, as I try hard to figure the hidden meaning of this precious thing called LIFE. All I can tell myself is 'Everything happens for a reason' as I start gathering those lost little pieces of ME and finding the answer to ‘Nothing… is what I have done in my life’.
Rohit Rajpal