Good bye 2008

Yesterday, on 31^st December, I went to marine drive to bid the year 2008 goodbye. It was the first sunset I witnessed in the past 5 months of my stay here at marine drive. I thought the sun would set well before reaching the horizon but it dipped into water till its last point.

I was sitting on the pavements and watching the sun setting. He was talking to me asking me few questions like an appraiser. How was the year? What did you achieve? What did you lose? Were you upto your reputation? Did you carry forward your legacy of achieving success? What is your agenda for the next year? What do you want to achieve by the end of next year?

When I was working for Infosys, we had annual appraisals by the managers. That was to check the progress of an employee. But do we have such process on personal level? Every person asks the above questions to himself depending on whether he feels the need to do so. The setting sun could not resist appraising me before it disappeared.

What was my major achievement this year? No doubt the top rank in Maharashtra state (ohu) in MBA CET. This could have been my all time greatest achievement. Even though getting NTS was tougher task to accomplish than cracking CET, I was among 700 achievers all over India in NTS. This success in CET completely destroyed the question on my ability to achieve great success. The three years after graduation were insipid without any significant achievement. This success created some enthusiasm in life.

On personal account I lost few good friends and got some new ones. In Infosys my friend circle was very limited. Through JB I got a bigger circle of friends. The intercollegiate events and activities got me some new friends. Through 24 hr net, I came in contact with few forgotten friends of past.

First semester at JB was totally new experience. Getting so many experiences in such a less time span was indeed a great thing that happened to me. Though I am not satisfied as far as knowledge gaining is concerned, I am happy that I got a platform. In the coming year I can use it to fill the gap.

There is only one major reason that I came to JB. I hope I will have started that dream run and will have run a few hundred meters on the path by the end of next year.