Whatever happens, Happens for good!

For many of us who have read this story in their text books, know that once a King cut his finger by accident and then later escaped a threat to his life only due to that wounded finger and for rest of those who haven’t heard of it, here’s my own story on how I realized this fact.

Sometimes sitting in my room alone, I start thinking over various times in my life, one of the many reasons for me loving to live alone rather than having roommates etc. Just today when I was in one of these lonely situations, I was working on my laptop and started thinking on how I started working on my website and how, for the first time in my life, I was doing what I loved. Then I started thinking of my laptop that I lost in January this year (Rest in peace L ). How I lost that first love of mine due to my stubbornness. Then a strange thought struck my mind. If it weren’t the loss of that laptop, I would have never started reading those novels and if I weren’t reading those novels then I would have never came across Rashmi Bansal’s “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”. And, the whole idea of starting this website came from that book only.

After all this pondering, I was sure that it wasn’t me who  lost the laptop that day, It was God who wanted me to lose that laptop so that I could stop wasting my time and utilize my skills to reach my goal “Change Atul Gupta to ‘The Atul Gupta’.”

I didn’t stop right there, I started thinking of past incidents as well. How I managed to score good in CET after not so good performance in national level ones, or how my being of small height and childish looks helped me make friends with my seniors, or how I could manage to perform well in that FIITJEE test after a full night of crying after my class 10^th result.

I started feeling so good after all this thinking. Then I said to myself 

“If it weren’t this neck pain that I’m having since yesterday, I would have never bunked office today and never realized this fact”.

So long story short, whatever happens, happens for good. Believe in him and most importantly, believe in yourself.

Meri Mumbai Madness

Time flies, but the memories collected along the way can never be replaced. ~Random

The day has finally come when I complete one year of economic independence and professional life. It is amazing how time flies by; one year back I was just a college pass out and now I am a professional. This one year may well be one of the best years after super cool College life as for most part of it, we were always treated like college students only. In this one year, life taught me so many things. Some were learnt the easy way and some were imbibed in the hardest possible ways.

The thing they taught us on first day of CORPORATE LIFE was “Be Friendly with everyone but, Friends with no one.” This line alone should tell you the bitter truth of corporate life.  The life which I chose myself over many other options, just because I wanted to work, wanted to innovate, wanted to utilize my intelligence, etc. But, one year down the line, I know that corporate is nothing but doing the same thing over and over again or just sitting all day and sending mail chains. This sometimes make me think, was this really what I wanted for my life.

Unpacking my new Dell Inspiron 14R

One of the biggest disasters of this one year was the loss of my laptop (R.I.P). I never was so careless in my life, even to lose a single pen, but this time I lost one full bag carrying my lappy, hard disks, photon and other stuff. This really came as a shocker to me and almost ruined the joy of going back to my home and meeting my parents. However, I became much more responsible after this and saved money to buy a new Dell Laptop.

Another bad moment was that of DIWALI, 2011 when I was totally alone and literally cursed myself for choosing this IT sector when I could have been with my family. That day and the person responsible for it will always remain glued to my deepest memory cells.

The other bad times would include frequent fights with roommates & a disastrous committed life.

This one year was not all bad; I found so many good friends & mentors in the same time. The project team from the first project was so friendly that we never felt like new guys. Most of the team was young and thus it was like college all over again. I found few mentors in Prajakta Kamtekar (My integration Testing Lead), Bhushan Waghmare & Kalpesh Bhanushali (Superb Critic). Prajakta would always had confidence in me whenever she assigned me anything and that helped me a lot. Kalpesh was always a critic and I always wanted to prove him wrong about me. Bhushan really helped a lot, both inside the office and outside it. Be it boarding the bus or settling in the project team or the occasional beer parties; he was always helpful. Hope he continues giving parties to me J.

Even the managers from that team were very nice and showed a lot of confidence in my abilities.

BMS Team outing to Silent Hills Resort

The next episode in my life was the Deadly Bench. The only ray of hope during that time was Prabhu Padayachi (my mentor from FARMERS). He was always mentoring us so selflessly that one could not help but admire him. We could always see that he wanted us to do something other than that boring MS Excel, which is usually bestowed upon fresher community.

Then the time came for a new project & new team. The whole team welcomed me open-heartedly with the person leading the celebrations being Shruit Bhopi, one of the nicest persons I have ever met in my life. All the other team members also helped me in getting hold of things and concepts.

Apart from office ki life, there was choti moti si personal life as well. In that life, I made friends like Bikash, Arijit, Ajay, Amrendra, Nanditha, Chhavi, Abhishek, Ankur, Ritesh and many others.

Bikash is like the other Milan Pal Singh from college, you can always count him in for any trip. Nanditha, the bindass kudi; Arijit, the DRAMEBAAZ; Ajay, the body builder and Amrendra, the Bade bhaiya.

Dashing Dapoli Trip

One of the best things of this year was that I found something that my heart always wanted. The thing that I always wanted to have, JK Naukri. The life really changed after starting this. I really became more focused about this with each day passing and now it has already started making baby steps towards success.

The Official Logo of Jk Naukri

I would always count this one year as one of those years which taught me so many aspects of this practical life. I use this term practical because, no matter how much close you are to a person or thing, there comes a time when you have to leave it and then few years afterwards, you won’t even recognize that person or thing. This is the bitter truth of our lives. However, I wanted to end this one year on a high note so here it goes…

Time for Celebration