Had started blogging with lot of tempo last time ,but like many things which I start with lots of enthusiasm it also ended up with a big naught. So here I am back again with take 2 
Now I have decided to write on any junk thing which I feel like writing. So why not start with some thing which I never took very seriously during my school days. Post class 10,our Principal came up with a fundu idea of providing Career Counseling to senior section students. In that series ,so called inspiring people were invited to our school and their speech was followed by question answer session. I still remember three people who how have influenced me, not instantly at that time, but during the course of time. Let me recall one by one.
The first guy was the then DC of Bokaro, Dr Gautam Goswami.His personality was really dashing. Young , dynamic, escorted with cops, he seemed to me someone whom I really wanted to follow. He had also done MS in Surgery with Specialization in Heart. Leaving his lucrative profession career he opted for civil services and he was one of the few young talented to do so. After his initial speech ,students and teachers fired many questions. One was very obvious which I also wanted to ask was why he left his Medical profession he opted for IAS? Was he really interested in Power and manipulative ways of acquiring money? Or he wanted to serve country with humanity. He told some crap about doing something about nation and all that, but very soon he came to the point. He said the profession of doctor is like a Hill and Administrative Services is like plateau. In medical field, one needs to learn gradually, update continuously and then keep growing. There is nothing like saturation level, you can keep on moving up and up. The steep of the hill depends upon you skill. In administrative service , after initial hard work, you jump very high to a esteemed rank. Once you reach there it is almost saturation. The progress is slow and cannot be compared to any technical stream. After that he said that he liked plateau and thus opted for Civil services. With his inspiring speech, charming personality and the aspirations that society have in our part of region, I thought that was the Career for me. But I think that state of mind didn’t last for many days ( thank god:)).The best part of whole session come after 7 years. The same inspiring Gautam Goswami becomes the chief executive of Patna and pockets crores of rupees in Flood relief scam. For me the learning was which I still believe is: No individual is right or wrong. Only his certain acts reflect whether his or her particular act is correct or not. ( bit philosophical but true).
Let’s go across to the second guy, again a doctor. Dr Sanjay was a well known ophthalmologist whose fame was not restricted to Bokaro or
India but worldwide. His presentation was bit weird in the sense that he talked too much on technical details. After fifteen minutes we all were confused if had come for Career counseling or enlightening with us precautionary and curative measures for eye. Though he moved away from the topic, but his simplicity, interactive responses and detailed knowledge in his field have always inspired me learn few cues on Communication etiquettes. First, be ready to accept your mistakes if you don’t know about something. Second, your mastery in any domain doesn’t give you right to infuse unnecessary ego within you.
The final last guy who has really inspired and motivated me was a Government secretary (I cannot recollect his name or department).He told a very simple story. Once upon a time there was a small island .The human population was very less and every one knew each other by face and name. Apart from them there was a very old huge bird (size of elephant), whom villagers believed has been living for time immemorial. People used to treat it as an important part of their culture and feed him daily near bird’s place. People used to provide all kind of food and amenities to the bird near its dwelling place itself as no one had seen it flying. Though bird used to move around once in a while, it preferred to stay in its dwelling place. Everything was going smoothly, but one day some how fire broke out in the village. In hurry every one left the island and reached the near by safe plain. Once people settled down at the new place, they realized that they had completely forgotten the bird. Everyone was worried and hopeless. The magnitude of fire was enough to destroy whole village without discriminating if it is huge bird or not. What happened next surprised everyone. People saw the huge bird flying away from the island and reaching a safe destination on the other side. The story ended here. Most of us thought what a junk story. Then he asked us what we had learn from that story. Every said some blah blah blah…. The best part comes when he explained what we could learn from the story. First, like huge bird, most of us do not realize our potentials but we have the capability to do anything. Second, though villagers were supportive and were trying to help bird, their same act was not allowing the bird explore new avenues. So one should not look to the short term goals but should also innovate and act proactively for experimenting new things. At no point in you life you should be stagnant. Third and most important, if you believe in yourself that you can do it, everything is achievable.
I think I should stop now. Enough of funda for this postJ
