Cerebration

It was my second day at office and it was quite late at night when my boss   told me that he would   give a ride back to home .     A   very   simple , sensible ,   hardworking     man by nature , He was   happily married   and blessed with two lovely daughters and   started   telling me   about his family back in India. He came from a middle class family with 2 brothers .Both of his brothers were a year or two apart and had opted for higher studies after their under graduation.  With the thought of supporting his father financially, Satya(the youngest one and my Boss ) started looking for jobs. Being one of the   brightest students in his college he would clear every possible technical round with flying colors   but would end up getting   rejections because   of the fact that he graduated from an university   which   ranked below average. After the series of r...

Sometimes you really don’t want to know where it is leading to. Sometimes you really don’t even want to know where it started and what’s on the other end? Life would be much better if we stay between the two ends of a bridge. From very childhood, we usually try to conclude things as soon as they started or even before they ever started, always striving to reach other side of the bridge. But never thought   that we were rather missing the pleasant journey towards the other side of the bridge. There are chances when you would not even reach other end .The inquisitive human nature which always wants to know “What Next” but somehow misses    the intermediate little things in life. Always striving to be at the first place, there will times when many of us will miss gazing   at the   night sky and the hanging glitters for months. Malcolm Margolin said " The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and ...

My Mom was always unsatisfied with all the facial features God has gifted me. She has very stunning set of eyes and she always wanted me to inherit her features especially her eyes. Almost twice or thrice a day I use to hear "Raja, you really have little eyes, you would have looked better if you would have inherited my set of eyes". Hearing the same thing almost every day nullified everything other compliment. I started poking my friends with the question that if I really have very small eyes like that of rat. Unaware of the context of the question their answers were something from nice to beautiful. Years passed by and was still hearing the same thing until one day when everything changed. Since I was poor at Mathematics, my parents decided to send me to extra classes to the most scary and iron-fisted teacher Mrs. Pal. I was scared to death to attend her classes. On the first day which later on proved to be the most memorable day, was asked to sit beside her. She took my...