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2500 weekeds to live!!!

Someone just sent me an email which is an excerpt from the speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis. What struck me most about this speech was the fact that in 50 years we have just about 2500 weekends and we get so worked up during our life that we forget to make most of these weekends. So I started calculating how many weekends I have lost… How many have YOU lost?

 

The excerpt is as follows…

 

Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.

 

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

 

"Don't be serious, be sincere."

 

Start Enjoying from moment................

 

 

Plastic over seat covers

In Mumbai (maybe everywhere) a new car will always be sold with thin plastic sheets on the seats and till the time it actually tears on its own, no one removes them. Inspite of spending about INR 5000/- for the special seat covers…they still actually sit on plastic sheet!!! Why?????

Elevators

Ever notice while waiting for an elevator…how impatient people press both the buttons for the elevator to go up as well as go down…I sometimes wonder whether they are actually ignorant or simply foolish to do such a thing. As if pressing the ‘down’ button will make the elevator come down to this floor and take them ‘up’. In any case that is not going to happen so why simply delay the process and get worked up further. Another thing I have noticed is that they keep pressing the call button numerous times…as if the elevator which is on another floor will kick out the people and come down specially for them!! Crazy…God give them patience…but please hurry!!

Bplan competition

October 5^th , Midnight, I was attending an Id party thrown by a friend, I received a call from a dear friend, Jagan (Juggy). He was like ranting off non-stop that there is B-Plan competition going on for which the last date is Oct’06 midnight, do you want to submit your plan, Maddy & Abi said that it cannot get completed in 24 hours, do you still want to do it? There is a format that you need to adhere to, you need to upload it on the web and you have just 24 hours….

 

Well of course I want to submit my business plan…how else do I know if it is worth it. So what I don’t have a business plan yet but it is all there in my head…how much time will it take to put it on paper?? Next 10 minutes are spent convincing Maddy & Abi…a job well done…they accept that we need to submit it for the competition else we don’t know when we will get a chance. But all of us have to work the next day!! Aaaahhh!! We all decide to work only for half a day and then get together for the B-Plan. Not waiting for the next day,  Juggy got working on his B-Plan & me on my concept…we work till 4:30 am and then call it a night (or should I say call it a day?)…got to get some sleep before going to office.

 

Not everyone can make it after half a day’s work – Juggy & myself meet around 3:00 pm and get to work…joined by Maddy & Abi by around 6:00pm…no worries (I think)…plenty of time… Next 6 hours was  a crazy time, thinking of the flow of ideas, correcting grammatical mistakes and hoping that everything that we do is perfect. The corrections went on till the last second of the deadline…but finally the deed is done. We managed to submit an entire B-Plan in less than 24 hours. Whether it is shortlisted or not is another story but we managed to clear the first step. Now we can hope to get an opportunity to participate in the second phase…if we would not have tried submitting the plan, we wouldn’t have any hope left!! These 24 hours were well spent and now we can hope for a month for a positive outcome.

 

Reminded of my days in Rotaract, where working late nights on project deadlines was such a common thing. Enjoyed my time there…enjoyed my time yesterday as well.

 

Great work guys!! And thanks for this nostalgic experience.