Walk the talk

DECEMBER! Wow! That was so quick. 2017 is almost about to end. What a year it has been so far. Some very significant changes occurred over the last 12 months. Also, that is how it’s supposed to be. Early 20’s is all about being dynamic and bustling with life, constant change before you get all sorted and settled. So how was it for you? Got into a relationship? Got out of one? Got your dream job? Got a raise? Left a job? Travelled to a new place? Shifted out of city? Met with an accident? Got jailed? Okay that was a drag. I sincerely hope the last one wasn’t true for anyone of you. This early stage of adulthood is interesting because we’re not completely dependent on our parents for the most minuscule thing and also at the same time not completely independent of it either. Get the catch? Like having a temporary job and not having to remember to pay your insurance, bills etc. is relatively okay. Unable to fend oneself from relatives and ill health is also okay. Not knowing...

I knew of a guy named Jon from the mainland. He had moved to the western world for pursuing his graduate studies. He was quite wary of being in untested waters but braced the idea with grit. He was doing just fine at the start of the academic career, as is the case with everyone, it takes time to get acclimatised. I happened to call him few weeks back thinking he would have settled down and this is what I found out. He was lately feeling super elated. His morale and self-confidence had got a high boost due to his positive thoughts and way of thinking which led to building up of constructive ideas amongst his peers. For every workshop, group discussion he seemed to know the way to go about the solution. He realised that everyone in his class had a way of representing the solution differently. The approaches differed but everyone conveyed quite the same, real gist of what the prof was looking for. At the end of the day, wherein they all had been graded and everyone had scored decen...