Theory of Murdering - Part2

I was wrong! Totally wrong! Pathetically wrong! I had failed in the Theory of Machines subject again in the back papers and also had got one back in the 6th semesters. How can that happen. I could find drastic similarities in my feelings and feelings when any Bollywood heroine says "Mein tumhare bacche ki maa banne wali hoon...Tum Mere sath aisa kaise kar sakte ho..Nahhhhiiiiii!!!!".

However, the feeling disappears as soon as you go away from the academic section, the place where the results are put. This is another speciality of being in an Engineering college, after getting backs all these years you get accustomed to it to such an extent that, it does not affect you for more than 10 minutes. I assured myself, it is not the end of world here, I will try again next time and will clear it with good marks consequently increasing my aggregate percentage. It was an opportunity for me to increase my aggregate percentage. This is one of the methods I used all my engineering years to keep my self positive and optimistic among the hard fought competition around me.

In my opinion, the time in an engineering college is a mix of reality and innocence. On one hand, we are very much aware that there is a bad bad world outside waiting to try and crush us. We need to fight against it in order to survive. On the other hand, we have great friends with whom we hang out, laugh, have fun, though we know that these are all our fellow competitors with whom we have to play the rat race in order to come on top and taste success. Though we had shallow pockets we were the happiest humans on earth. We slept in rooms where nasty smells came in from the nearby stinky toilets; We believed that the single bed were meant for at least 3 persons; we were great fans of Maneka Gandhi and had dogs, cats and rats sleeping besides us in the same room. It was fun, just pure fun, it is here we understood that, money or any material things do not bring in such pure, pristine, uncorrupted happiness, we enjoyed during the engineering college days.

Here I was back again enjoying the college days. I had already forgot about the "Theory of Machines" subject which has been haunting me. However, as the saying rightly mentions - "The only thing constant in this world is change". I had to study "Theory of machines" for the third time now, besides the 6th semester back papers and the subjects from the 7th semester which added to the frustration I already had.
I went to the examination hall confidently. I was very much sure that now it is impossible for me to fail again. I knew about the subject to such an extent that I could have probably taught the professor himself with ease. He could have taken tuition's from me on how to teach that subject and references of the different difficult problems present on the subject. I had referred to most books available on the subject in the library and I was in a state of extreme confidence.

However, I could not believe my fate when I failed in the subject for the third time again though I had cleared the seventh semester with good marks. This time the theory of machines subject had gotten to my nerves, how can I fail in the same subject for three times when i had studied my heart out to clear this subject? I was unable to understand where I had gone wrong and this was a great concern. You can rectify your mistakes if you know what and where the mistake is. My state was like a drunkard who had the habit of falling into the same "nullah" everyday irrespective of whether he is drunk or not. Similarly I failed every time in the same subject no matter how more or less I studied.

So here I was in a desperate position when I had to clear theory of machines in the next attempt or I would have to loose 6 precious months of my career. Though I was not depressed, I was for sure concerned about my future.

Stay tuned for the last and most important part of the series.

Learning life from Business Management

In my opinion, managing a business and managing your personal life has striking similarities. Managing the business efficiently will provide you monetory benefits, while managing your personal life effectively will give you internal peace and respect.

When any business is new, it is unstable, fresh with innovative ideas, trying to learn from the environment, market. Explore as much as possible and finally creates a niche of its own. In this process, it has a particular aim to make it big. When it grows to such an extent that one person cannot handle it, we create a hierarchy structure and many stake holders are involved in order to sustain the growth of the organisation. Now to make this business a success, we need good managerial and organisational skills.

Now, if we apply a similar theory to our personal lives and metamorphose ourselves as an organisation, I find that we again need the same good managerial and organisational skills in order to sustain the personal growth. The growth could be quantitative in terms of the amount of relationships we add to our life and also on achievement basis, the new milestones we achieve on this path to make it big.

When we are born we are an organisation that is created and we try to explore, learn, innovate and keep ourselves always open to new things. Here we are a company of just four entities, ourselves, mother, father and siblings. We love each one present in the company at this moment because we know that each one here wants to make this organisation big and does everything possible to achieve and fulfill the wants of the company even if it means sacrificing some of the personal pleasures. Here the organisation tends to be selfish and they are worried only about their own self.
When our organisation grows a little, we hand over contracts to a few vendors like school, college and other institutions to fulfill our desire to gain more information and train us intellectually. It is in this phase that we have another entity in the organisation called friends. In the form of teachers, We have people who have been given the responsibility of nurturing the organisation in the correct direction and has correct processes or in the words the right moral values. The organisation learns that to be successful we have got to share, we cannot remain just selfish. This is also the place where we recruit friends. We recruit them very meticulously by focusing whether he/she will meet the requirements of the organisation. We check whether he/she understands the policies, processes and overall conduct to be maintained or in other words whether he/she understands you and whether he will be there in time of crisis. These recruits either stay or leave the organisation, we also layoff some of them. It is very important for the sake of wellness of the organisation that we take the correct uninfluenced, impartial decisions. We also experience many good and bad incidents which teach us life.

By the time we are done with the education, we realise that not all people that we have recruited are loyal to the organisation. We now understand that only the people loyal to the organisation remain in touch with you, others come and go, there is no point in forcing them to stay in the organisation by displaying your wealth.

When we take up a job, another entity called colleagues join our organisation. These are like shareholders of your organisation. They invest in you and are concerned about your well being. However, most of them are concerned only with the returns. What is that they can obtain from you, if they invest in you. What will be return on investment. Hence, it does not make a difference to most of them whether you remain in the right state or no, they are only concerned about their returns. Once they get their dividends on time, they are not bothered about the state of the organisation.

Having said all the things above, the most important thing in any organisation is that it has its top management happy and keeping them happy keeps the organisation in the best shape. Similarly, it is important to keep our parents happy, so that our organisation touches new heights and we remain happy throughout our life!