It was the day my fate got sealed.
After much pondering over what exactly I wanted to become in life, I found out that I do so many things quite well, but in poor India you really cannot make a career out of it. I really slept well and I could do it for extended hours, and in many precarious situations and positions, but India really wasn't developed so much so that I could consider it as a career. Same was the case with my eating and drinking. So after much deliberation, I decided to listen to my father one final time and become an engineer. Though my mother wanted me to become a Doctor, the only pre-requisite that I had for becoming that was that I had a tremendously illegible handwriting. Other than that I had nothing which one associates with a future doctor ( read marks! ).
So, there I was, in front of a 'Counselling Centre', which unlike the name suggests is done once a year for tremendously sane candidates of engineering, to associate them to an Engg. College according to their positions in an entrance exam.
I had gone there with my father and a piece of paper which happened to be the 'rank' which I had secured in the exam. I in a way I thought that my 'rank' reflected the demographic population of the number of persons who took the exam, but I was relieved to find in the 'Counselling Centres' more souls, who had a number exceeding mine.
Anybody who has not been though such a 'Counselling' experience , surely missed something. There was utter confusion prevalent everywhere, people poured into the display screens where the different college seats current vacancy details was getting updated each time. By the time my turn came, I saw that most of the colleges had virtually put the houseful board on them. For the first time in my life, I got a bit worried about my future, as I had mentally prepared myself to be an Engineer for the past few days and it seemed all that would come to nought. I had to again go soul-searching for another achieable aim in my life, and I was tired already doing that many times over. What I indeed became, was partly decided by my family, and part by my peers who appeared alongwith me in the entrance exam. I cannot thank my family enough for that, but to all the nameless souls, who played an active part to put me where am today, 'thank you' for everything ! It was the day I enlisted my name in the elite batch of engineers and the roller-coaster called life was beckoning me with its arms spread open. Hell with everything, I dived in.....and my life was never the same again.............
