The title may be inspired from Chetan Bhagat's bestselling novel but the fact of the matter is that this aptly summarises my new post. They say time and tide wait for no man and I definitely stand an illustration to this maxim. Mistakes or may be simply things where I should have taken decision from my mind’s viewpoint and not from heart’s perspective, the circumstances where in I should have trusted my instincts and not my emotions. The moments where in I should have resorted to some confrontation rather than subduing to them. So what were the moments, the circumstances which had this bearing on my life? Probably this post might help me in catharsis and encourage me to do the things differently next time.
Moment 1: My graduation time and the decision to do my graduation from my home town.
I had studied pretty hard for the higher secondary with the aim to be in merit. My luck ditched me here by 10 marks and I could not make it. But I scored pretty decent marks (90 plus PCM). I had made up my mind to do my engineering from Pune/Mumbai (my preference) and probably my PCM percentage was the passport. With high hopes and fire in the belly we started off to Mumbai for the counselling session. I was with a bunch of people who has reinforced this impression that I will be getting a very good college in my counselling session and everybody acknowledged this fact. My mama g had in fact advised me to go for mechanical and not to stick to computers & electronics but my ignorance and foolishness never beckoned to this philosophy. I was too much ardent for playing with the binary digits. I always differed from my dad in the choice of colleges. I wanted the college to be from Mumbai whereas my father was of the view that Pune would be a better place. I can understand his rationale behind this now. The rationale let be known to me for privacy only. But i feel my dad could have believed in me at that point of time and I should have clarified all their doubts here. Probably I being the eldest, dad wanted me to suffer less. With sparkling gleam in my eyes i waited for my opportunity. Before entering the hall i met my darling friend at the gate but since i was with my dad i lost an opportunity to look into her eyes- a blunder in my personal life whose value i realise now. Throughout my waiting period i was watching people taking some really good decisions; Vishal Khashu a top ranker in HSC walked away with VJTI production specialisation. I could not understand the cues that god had signalled to me. Vishal chose college over specialisation and i must appreciate his thinking at that time. No matter that is why he was 6th ranker in HSC. My turn came and we had some good choices like VIT Open all, MIT- Electrical onwards, COEP-Electrical, Sardar Patel Mumbai, DJ Sanghvi. My vision was only binary digits and limited to COEP, VJTI and MIT. Punit Kaul had just given his choice DY Patil Comps. He was one rank above me. When my turn came up nervousness ran through my body and prudence lost the way. I don’t know where from I chose D Y Patil reason –Pune factor. Thanks to Punit and this untimely decision making I gave up what could have been a window towards a glittering future and lost the big moment. I chose D Y Patil Electronics.... The first step towards the blunder. While on my way to Pune I consoled myself for the lost opportunity and i could see the deep sense of regret in my dad’s eyes as well. This feeling ran throughout my time period spent in DYPCOE. In spite of this I made quite a good friends there- Tapash Koley, Shripad bade, Tejas Kamod to name few of them. Although the feeling was bad but my tenure there had some good moments- the Jagran night “the other name for getting ragged throughout the night wherein I was made to fill the cosy balloons with air
Moment 1: My graduation time and the decision to do my graduation from my home town.
I had studied pretty hard for the higher secondary with the aim to be in merit. My luck ditched me here by 10 marks and I could not make it. But I scored pretty decent marks (90 plus PCM). I had made up my mind to do my engineering from Pune/Mumbai (my preference) and probably my PCM percentage was the passport. With high hopes and fire in the belly we started off to Mumbai for the counselling session. I was with a bunch of people who has reinforced this impression that I will be getting a very good college in my counselling session and everybody acknowledged this fact. My mama g had in fact advised me to go for mechanical and not to stick to computers & electronics but my ignorance and foolishness never beckoned to this philosophy. I was too much ardent for playing with the binary digits. I always differed from my dad in the choice of colleges. I wanted the college to be from Mumbai whereas my father was of the view that Pune would be a better place. I can understand his rationale behind this now. The rationale let be known to me for privacy only. But i feel my dad could have believed in me at that point of time and I should have clarified all their doubts here. Probably I being the eldest, dad wanted me to suffer less. With sparkling gleam in my eyes i waited for my opportunity. Before entering the hall i met my darling friend at the gate but since i was with my dad i lost an opportunity to look into her eyes- a blunder in my personal life whose value i realise now. Throughout my waiting period i was watching people taking some really good decisions; Vishal Khashu a top ranker in HSC walked away with VJTI production specialisation. I could not understand the cues that god had signalled to me. Vishal chose college over specialisation and i must appreciate his thinking at that time. No matter that is why he was 6th ranker in HSC. My turn came and we had some good choices like VIT Open all, MIT- Electrical onwards, COEP-Electrical, Sardar Patel Mumbai, DJ Sanghvi. My vision was only binary digits and limited to COEP, VJTI and MIT. Punit Kaul had just given his choice DY Patil Comps. He was one rank above me. When my turn came up nervousness ran through my body and prudence lost the way. I don’t know where from I chose D Y Patil reason –Pune factor. Thanks to Punit and this untimely decision making I gave up what could have been a window towards a glittering future and lost the big moment. I chose D Y Patil Electronics.... The first step towards the blunder. While on my way to Pune I consoled myself for the lost opportunity and i could see the deep sense of regret in my dad’s eyes as well. This feeling ran throughout my time period spent in DYPCOE. In spite of this I made quite a good friends there- Tapash Koley, Shripad bade, Tejas Kamod to name few of them. Although the feeling was bad but my tenure there had some good moments- the Jagran night “the other name for getting ragged throughout the night wherein I was made to fill the cosy balloons with air
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