We were (wannabe) soldiers... and young once

-
This page pays tribute to those of us who were wannabe soldiers, few years back. Few of us really made it and many of us didn't. Fate has it that all of us, others, turned into Software engineers or management executives... And are the niche group; alive, kicking and performing to the best of a person's ability today.
Thinking aloud it appears that it was the whole desire for the perfection required to be a "Man in the uniform" that turned us into what we are today. Sometimes when I am working with my team, I feel like an oddity. No one else, around, barks tasks in conference rooms, takes up responsibility of tasks which require sticking one's neck into the guillotine, plots elaborate plans and loves to draw the plan, architecture just like some map, on the white board (I have heard that it does happen in places like NASA, Google and few others, but thats a different world altogether. Its an oddity here).
I don't know how many of my buddies, (Prithvi, if you read this. You count as the first one on the wagon of SE's who are) feel the same way.
But I do believe that they too, if they think about it, will agree that its the goal of the youth that paves us into being what we are when we grow older...
And so once we were (wannabe) soldiers... and young... with an aim...
And so we are still... Soldiers of our own kind... fighting for excellence in whatever we do... still young... still with the goal to be the best in whatever we do...

P.S : I believe in conscription to be mandatory for every youth of the country. They will learn to be Men. Or at least, I wish our youth strive for the Armed forces as their best career option.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Marketing strategy...

-
Yesterday I had a great time starting very early morning, with the Ishquia show at 0850 AM at INOX, after a bike ride of a whole 16 KMs. Then we went to Pantaloons where the gals wanted to have some shopping. It turned out to be a shopping spree for the guys. But that is all normal stuff. So where is the cranky, nerdy, thinking kind of Gautam... Well ladies and gentlemen, here I come... At Pantaloons, as it happens with me mostly I was checking out things in the fragrances section, though highly reluctant to buy any as I have enough right now to burn a corn field in it. Still, others had paid the bills and we were about to leave when one of the gals (no names... Rule no 1 lolzzz... don't get the joke, watch Transporter) went over to try out the Polaroid sunglasses. We all flocked over and the salesperson told her that "These are Polaroids" "So what about it?" "Well these are not tinted or colored and can be used for night driving. And I tell you what? Look
Need a bigger dose?>>

Winter is "chillilng"... pun intended

-
The weather is just like back home when winter started. Miss those winter days of, the steaming cup of hot tea which I could have both when mummy made and when bua made. The days of endless. meaningless walks on canal road, when every few steps led to a meeting with another friend. The days when we were free to create all that laughter and ruckus on the road, the way Bulli would cry out the honourable salutation of "Bhai ko", God alone knows what that meant but that was our way of saying rather shouting a powerful hello. I remember the woolen cap that mummy wanted me to wear and I would'nt. And to top it Kamal would come wearing one, showing off as an example. I remember the occasional momos and soup. The days of miscalls. When we wanted to be independent. When we took tutions to earn and get that sense of independence. The days when we earned and spent without a thought, for it was for spending that we earned. Yet we saved. Those were the days when Kamal would miscall me
Need a bigger dose?>>

Askers vs Believers

-
The war between question and acceptance has been perpetual. This is just a new chapter where another "asker" tries to hold ground till he can and then go down into history... Surrounded all around by "believers" trying hard to make me believe too, it becomes a necessity to voice out my logic somewhere. And it is always futile to talk logic to those who believe. These days I am sharing my small accommodation with a believer who has "experienced God". And I still ask, has he? He believes so, yes. The argument usually springs from a pamphlet to join so and so course on such and such dates for spiritual healing. Healing!!! But am I ill. "You are". "How?" "You must believe you are ill and you will be healed. Join the course and you will know it, just like when you go to the doctor and he tells you." "But the doctor gives me reasons, conducts tests and shows me results" "Here you will experience, they will show you ho
Need a bigger dose?>>