"Sir, my name is Amitabh Singh Yadav and I am waitlisted 18 for the PMIR course.
waitlist 18 ?
Yes Sir.
PMIR ?
Yes Sir.
Amitabh ..Singh Yadav.
Yes Sir.
Your waitlist has been cleared and we will send you the formal admission letter in 3-4 days.
Are you sure sir ?
Yes .. now be patient and wait for your offer letter .... and the person on the other side of the phone call hung up. "
It took a while for this news to sink in me. When it did .. I did an impromptu Salsa step (which I was learning those days) and my colleague who was with me for breakfast was amused to see it.
Then I told her, "I am going to XLRI Jamshedpur" with the widest possible grin on my face.
Recently I completed a year after that fateful day and the journey so far has been a roller coaster ride to say the least.
This is my attempt to look behind past my shoulders to reminisce about what has happened in one of the most eventful year of my life.
This was the year :
- When I again started to believe in dreams and possibility of impossible dreams coming true. What happens after they come true is altogether a different story.
- When I made 3 friends, and if I were a corporation and friends were my profits, I am not only beating recession, I am making a killing of it.
- When my dear Sister found the love of her life and decided to get married.She has became a Mumbaikar now.
- When I hurt someone because of being nice to me.
- When I read too much, understood a lot but learnt very little.
- When the time went by faster than it ever could.
- When I saw the rich people (too rich for their own good) and the poor people( too poor to get hold of their next meal) and my sense of justice took almost a U-turn.
- When I saw 14 interview shortlists without my name before seeing the one with my name for the Summer Internship Process. As it turned out, that was enough :)
- When I again tried to fight prejudices of many, failing often and succeeding rarely.I plan to continue doing the same.
- When old age caught up with me for the first time. The sign ? It is not the grey hairs(though I have few of them head) and I am yet to grow a fully blown beard or moustache. Rather it is the year where emotions got the better of me, I have become rather more sentimental and emotional than I ever was. I just hope it is a temporary phase.
- When even after going through this ... I am not any wiser. :)
Stay Beautiful
Amitabh
