Recently a thought crossed over my mind when I was paying attention to my teacher while talking on the phone. Being an enthusiast about civil services, I wanted him to give me an advice about how to go ahead with such strenuous preparations. In the world that I live in, All India Civil Services Exam is considered to be the toughest among the enthusiasts. I am really keen to take the exam in my personal capacity. However, when I talked to him, he said, ‘It’s not that difficult, you just need to read a few books and be aware of the things going around you.’ Adding to that he said, ‘Go for it. Try to clear it in the first attempt.’ He is the first person who has never said ‘no’ to even my elusive career paths. I immediately felt inundated.
He is the one on whom I rely upon relating to anything in my life – from my academic career to my personal problems. And, the way he solves them through his cutting edge intellect is simply commendable. An eminent eagle-eyed author by himself, his personality is of the kinds difficult to achieve.
Things have never been difficult for him. Things become difficult when you think that they are difficult. Knowing about indifference curves may be difficult for a class twelfth student, and you might not even expect him to know it already. But once he reads his curriculum economics book, he might be able to see the definition, mug that up and he’s there. However the same problem might not be a problem for a person like him because he’s already encountered with it many times in his life. The purpose of writing this doesn’t mean that a class twelfth student must know about economics or a professor of economics shouldn’t answer this question. The whole thing revolves around an idea that once you advance in life, your academic career may seem too small. Maybe, the professor himself could have spent hours on indifference curves, but these things don’t really matter when you hark back from when you are sixty years old. I know that when I’ll be a good sixty years old, and ‘if’ I clear civil services exam now, even this entrance would seem to be a cakewalk because then there would be other big challenges to face.
This whole scene made me think that on'e's life is like one's hard-disk drive.
Just as you create folders in your hard-disk, your life is full of different folders (instances) that you may browse in your mind. Just as the folders are not-so-difficult to browse, to hark back and think about the important periods may not be a daunting task. Inside the folders, you may find hundreds of files that you may choose to arrange alphabetically, date-modified, type, or size. It may be intriguing to find that you may be able to arrange your life, though with a little effort, in the same fashion if you try browsing your folders. Just try it out! You may want to arrange your facets of life (folders) in an austere fashion (alphabetically) or chronologically (date-modified) or on the basis of what comes to your mind (type) – photo, document, video, etc. – or maybe on the basis of 'what that mattered (size)'. Inside those documents you may find thousands of words that have your each and every second. Just as you won’t be able to browse each and every word of the document with your eyes, you won’t be able to recall the instances that really mattered to you while you were writing the text – the amount of time the professor might have spent on the indifference curves.
I hope that this text figures out in your files.
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