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CC1 -THREE LESSONS FROM MY LIFE

MY LIFE EPISODES

Small incidents can change your life and show you the road that you never knew existed before

Good afternoon toastmasters and guests

Today I will present three EPISODES of my life.

EPISODE 1-

NEVER BE AFRAID TO START FROM SCRATCH:

Born and brought up in small city kota that is now known for it’s best coaching institute to prepare for exams to enter best engineering and medical colleges. I lived in joint family until my father was separated and as he was separated I was separated from my friends, cousins with whom I used to play and learn. My parents with Me and my elder brother who is a year older than me, shifted to a rented house in the same city but far away. My father had to start everything from scratch and so did I. Things were tough in the beginning. I went to play cricket with neighbors. As I was the new one they asked me to do bowling and they did batting for first few weeks until they accepted me.May be
because I was becoming a good bowler and bowled them in few bowls.
Again Starting things from scratch is like believing in yourself that you can do it.

EPISODE 2-
NEVER BE AFRAID OF CHANGE :-
As we grew up, my father was worried about my brother’s and my careers. He didn’t have money to send us to school.
My father’s friend, who had a started a new school, got to know about his situation. He asked my father to send me and my brother to his school. He started by giving hundred rupee as a token money and the rest could be paid later.
But this was a big change for me as the school was affiliated to CBSE board and was English medium. Until then I used to study in hindi medium school. I didn’t understand anything on my first day of school and was not able to talk to any teacher in the school but later English sounded like a piece of cake. One evening on Sunday My father’s friend came to visit him and as I was busy doing my maths assignment in the hall where they are sitting too My father’s friend noticed me doing assignment really quickly and asked me how I found math. I said it’s easy.
He suggested me to take science and maths as my major and write jee and enter an engineering college. I wrote jee and got admission into IIT. I was placed in one of the beautiful campus of IIT guwahati. It was again a big change. A change of city, culture and a new living style.On my first programming class I slept later I found out you are allowed to bunk some classes and only 75% attendence is required and there is this thing called proxy if you don’t want to attend classes and still want 75% attendance.

No matter what hostel food will never be good and you have to start adapting. Whenever mom calls and asked how is the food you say good but I don’t know what I ate.I love playing video games till mid night.
I graduated in 2015 and got placed in oracle Bangalore. Again it was a change to come to
Corperate world. On my first day my manager assigned me a project to complete with a deadline.I took it like a college project and decided to do it on the night before deadline but as it required some help from seniors and I was not able to finish it on time. I said to my manager haven’t completed it yet and have some questions he said it’s not a college project that you can complete in a night it requires you to work on it for a while.
THE ONLY THING THAT IS CONSTANT IS CHANGE
WHY TO BE AFRAID OF IT.

EPISODE 3:
NEVER GIVE UP
A year later of starting my career as a software developer in Bangalore I became kind of fed up with the mundane activities of life i.e. On weekday I work till 6 and play football in evening . and same goes on daily. It’s like work on weekdays and party on weekend. Work on week days and party or sleeping on weekend.I started getting frustrated and decided to quit. I called my mom and said I will be quitting my job and coming home. She said [IT REQUIRE PERSEVERANCE TO DO SAME THIGN AGAIN] .
Your father goes to work at 10 in morning and comes home at 10 in night.
How do you think will your life be different from the life you are living now.
The point is you forget what life is all about. It’s not about money,position or result. It’s all about joy appreciating how far you have come and what u have achieved having fun in what you do. Doesn’t matter how things works out Keep smiling and never give up. That’s my 3rd lesson.
From that day onwards I never thought about quitting. I always start my day with a smile and appreciate things around me.

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