HOSTEL LIFE

That’s a life. In hostel we live a different life, a life that encompasses every aspects of a life that a human being dreams to live and actually live. In one perspective, it’s completely a different world altogether.

During my under graduation in Thanthai Periyar Govt. Inst. of Tech., I stayed in hostel and it’s the hostel life which made my college days more memorable. Most of the unforgettable college memories were invented inside those walls of the hostel.

It was the day of admission in college when we (me and my dad) visited the room in which I was going to stay, along with my room partners, who were assigned on the same day. It looked strange; the place was strange and so seemed the way of living in hostel for few next years.

As we, human beings, are resistant to change, it takes some time for us to accept the new circumstances and adapt to the new. But in life everything, once happens for the first time and so we could never avoid them. It was difficult but exciting for few days to stay with the stranger friends in a completely different environment. Within few days we were more comfortable with this and started enjoying the new  life. It also saw the departures of few fellow friends before the bond is created and few ones after getting closer. It was just to make us realize what is going to happen in near future. But we never worried about it, to be honest; we never tried to worry as it was awful to imagine the departure then.

We just moved on adding new and new incidents in our list. The ragging by the seniors added thrills to our lives. I used to get excited by ragging where I could take the advantage of less fluent in local language and thus be the spectator in those funny incidents. It was so funny when the mentioned advantage got me in to the same case later and I also became the part in those funny incidents.

It was just the four of us in our circle who hold the record of not getting caught and made to work by the seniors who would get us in to hostel cleaning process. 

It was wondrous experience to get up at 4 am in the morning just to wait for the friends who would be returning to the hostel from their home with varieties of food and sweet items. Everyone would have the same target, as there nothing would be remained within seconds. A quick shower in the morning together with friends will always be missed by everyone there.

Birthdays are always special, but it becomes even more special in hostel. Covering the birthday friend with a blanket and beating him in the dark, and snatching the birthday cake by switching off the lights before it is fully cut, and pouring powder, water on the body of the birthday friend and making him and others take bath at least thrice on the same night are some special memories from the birthday nights.

15 guys in a room writing records till early morning at the last time with music running in background and poking fun at each other now seems like a sweet dream now. The late night discussions would mostly used to end up with more than 10 friends sleeping together in different angles in a small place allotted for 3 students.

Responsibilities seemed to blossom on us when one of the friends among us would feel ill and care by friends never made us miss our parents. I would never forget the night when I had severe fever, slept in arms of a friend who couldn’t sleep the whole night as he did no feel like taking the support of his hand from me and my body's temperature was so high that it broiled him but he gracefully left his hand to support me the whole night without even considering his own sleep as he it is how I sleep at home with my dad and it is the time I needed it.  And providing the stuffs and care when it is needed to others is what we have learnt it there.

To cover a buddy in the group with the blanket and beat him by the whole group was the all time favorite game in the hostel. We never used to mind who the target is. Anyone who gets trapped inside the blanket used to be our target with the single mission to pound him. It was a similar day when I decided to trap one of my close friends who was having a chat with a group of friends. I entered the room with the blanket in my hand and ran to him from his behind in a plan to cover him with a long dive in the table. Unfortunately he moved slightly sidewards after I jumped at him, because of which I fell in the middle of the group with myself covered by the blanket. Now the target was me and that day I received the maximum that anyone in the hostel till date had received.

Breaking of rules of the hostel used to add thriller in our life.  Entertainment would never stop as we used to dance in the room late night and I remember being caught by the seniors once and were made to dance in their rooms later. We have lots of more funny and emotional incidents in hostel.

Every life has to end and so our hostel life. All those entertainments are missed by every one of us now but it had managed to teach us some valuable lessons. It was completely a different life at the exact age of life to live it. It was a hostel life and would cherish those moments the rest of my life. my hostel life. Happy to be the part of the hostel life with my dear friends.Suraj Sharma

Special People

"Life is just like a sea. We are moving without end. Nothing stays with us. What remains with us forever is the memories of some special people who touched us as wave..." 

True . Absolutely true. I just feel that I don't want to live a single life. I want to live lives, different lives, incorporated in a single life I am given.

Just go on living lives , the lives given to you, the life given to others. Just live deep into others life. Understand their lives. But you it looks vague to understand whether you are actually satisfied by the life of yours own.

In life we don't realize How lucky we are, how better we have got it until the point of time when someone comes to you and  makes you realize it. The someone remains special forever to us, who for me understood me and knew what i should be provided to make me realize it. 

SO got a chance to visit SHISHU BHAVAN, where I met Lovely children who have got more challenges than us but still were happy and i would say busy spreading love. Each and every smile of theirs touched me and helped me to realize it. I could still feel their touch and it actually helped me to change the way i used to look my life. I didn't know how few small things are so special to others. 

I do realize that i was given a lot more than many other people and I should be completely satisfied with it and instead of getting disappointed for the things not available to me,  I should be working to achieve them. Its by the special person and lovely special children whom i felt to thank with sincere and deep feelings. Thank you. 

My Special Diwali

Diwali is something which is more special to me and I have always celebrated it with my family. Last diwali was the first time that I was away from my home and family. But here in I got one of the best Diwali I ever had. Students of amity organized to celebrate the Diwali with those children, for whom Diwali doesn’t give much added happiness. We visited an orphanage near Malad with the hope to spread happiness and share their sorrows together. I find that an unparalleled experience being with those children and celebrating.

We had best time of our life with them together with all children by singing, dancing, playing games, exploding crackers etc. We there felt emotionally attached to them, so they did to us. Students had contribution in donating sport materials to them which we believed will give pleasure plating them. Life doesn’t stop when we lose someone whom we love; we have to still live. Such occasion forces us to love those who we have got rather than searching for someone. I found it as an opportunity to learn about living life in difficulties and felt my role for making an harmonious society. The lovely children over there were rich in love and I would say they are so generous in sharing it. We advised them to live their life to the full, study well and utilize the chances given to them, and help each other always. The moments could be understood from the fact that children actually started asking for our numbers to keep in touch in coming days. It was really difficult to leave for home as few kids started crying. We left the place with our heart full of the satisfaction and love for them.

Darwin's Theory - connectivity to Business

        I had been hearing about Darwin’s “Survival of the fittest” since childhood. I had the eager to know about the “origin of Species” and “survival of the fittest”. I had the question like what are they? What is their significance in real life? I was in Delhi during this summer vacation and I had a day to spend in my Dad’s office where I found one book on “Origin of Species”. Oh,  I don’t remember the author’s name. I went through the book the whole day and completed just the half of it. I found it interesting. But I had to leave for my home next day and the reading of book was left incomplete. It describes how the origin of species was formulated by Darwin. It generated even more interest to know its importance in real life and how does it get connected. Is Darwin’s theory relating to extinct species or organisms or connected with business field as well? If yes, then how?

      When we consider an organization surviving in the market, to survive corporate leaders talk to their peers, copy their competitors, and copy each other, and the theory becomes a managerial fad. Do any of these “canned” theoretical solutions really work? In some instances, managerial theory or fad might work; but for most businesses, the pursuit of theories and fads is a prescription for disaster and decay. If we can’t trust the academics, the consultants and the soothsayers, who can we trust? Who, or what, can we believe in? Is there no hope in a world of economic turmoil, chaos and confusion?
      The central question in my mind is: Why do some companies thrive, while others perish? Why do some companies make extravagant profits, while others scrape by on bare subsistence? What is the secret to success? What is the secret of survival? Businesses and brands also compete with each other in a struggle for survival, and collectively tend to operate in ways analogous to natural eco-systems. Is the survival of a business akin in any way to the survival of an animal, a plant or a bacterium? Is it possible that success and survival in the wild might be analogous to success and survival in the business world?
      And here I found J. W. Thomas’s (a Decision analyst) analysis of, ‘popularizing the phrase “ Survival of the fittest” phrase by Darwin’  interesting.            
     Darwin did not say “survival of the fastest.” He did not say “survival of the biggest,” nor “survival of the smartest.” He said “survival of the fittest.” What a strange word, “fittest.”  One might tend to interpret Darwin’s “fittest” (without thinking about it much) as somehow related to physical fitness, or physical superiority, in other words, to “strength.” But, Darwin did not say “survival of the strongest.” He said “survival of the fittest”. There is the meaning of it.
             By “survival of the fittest” Darwin did not mean that the toughest will survive, the swiftest will win, the smartest will succeed, or the biggest will dominate. What Darwin meant was something far different.  Darwin said that the organism that best “fits” its environment had the best chance of survival; hence, the term “survival of the fittest.” The plant or animal best “fitted” to its natural environment, according to Darwin, would be the most likely to survive and thrive.
           So what does all of this mean for the strategy of a business or a brand? It means that the company and/or brand best “fitted,” or best “adapted,” to its environment (its markets, its customers) is most likely to survive, and most likely to flourish. It means that companies or brands not well “fitted” to their markets will not survive long-term. Product improvements and new products are pathways to the future, the lifeblood of strategic survival.          
          I went through a working paper “Survival of the Fittest or Fattest? Exit and Financing truck Industry”, by  Luily Zingales, which challenges the theory and concludes after going through various observations and calculations that, in industries with high barriers to entry,  relatively inefficient firms are very less likely to get challenged by the new and may stay in the market even after the mistakes. Thus competition will not always lead to survival of the fittest. Not everyone would agree to the above one. But I have few sources claiming it does apply to the alien life..          
             In an article "marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species", one of the Nasa scientists said that Darwinian evolution will be the driving force of life anywhere in the universe, and we should use its predictions to decide where to look..
       And every theory is criticized. But as far as I have gone through the different cases it applies to many of the real life cases..          
But for my eagerness in the topic I do have few questions on it.I have some queries on the survival of dinosaurs, why didn’t they manage to survive, being the strongest animal of times, I believe so. Is that they were not able to fit in the changing climate or what’s the reason?
         And my query about human being - will it be able to survive the change; We have been able to do so till date but the rate of change is so rapid these days. Suppose we manage till ice age, what changes are likely to be occurred in us and how are we going to adapt to all change and threats? Will there be total change in our physical structure? I would like the reader to give me the view on it.
Thanks
Suraj Sharma.

E Night Walk

As it is said that memories make us cry when we remember the moment we laughed, and make us laugh for the moment we cried. I am on my study leave of my first semester, PG.

It was about 10 in the night, I was feeling stressed after going through my course books. So I just went into the streets to get relaxed. It took me to the days when we used to go for evening and night walk, “Enight walk” as I used to call it, when any of us in our circle feel stressed, disappointed, dejected or even happy. We had thousand reasons to go for it. If not, then we used to give our own reason. “Come on guys lets go for a walk”. It was very special to me in personal. It used to give me a lot of relief. The moment was just filled with happiness, laughter. Just laugh in the middle of road like no one is looking at you, jump, sing and dance. Tease, beat anyone in the group and laugh for it. But it had a limit and we new when to stop it, when it’s actually hurting others. We used to shout in the road like anything. It was the moment we used to forget our sorrows, the problems we had and just get into the moment, get into each other, plan for the future something like we will attend everyone’s marriage, and do lots of stuffs, hah! This part looks silly now. It used to give a lot of relief to everyone of us who had been away from family and missed them. I used to feel the best when it was in the month of Nov – Jan, when weather condition used to be cold. Fill the chillness, the dew and get mentally relaxed. Enight walk has been so special and memorable to me. It gives me a chance to smell the fragrance of life that I have spent till days.

God has been so graceful to me for he has been giving me such good friends to me from my school days, my undergraduate degree and now in
my post graduate as well. Sometimes we forget to thank the persons who have been making our life special and realize it later.

As I don’t want to get delayed, this is my dedication to memories of Enight walk, the friends who had been the part of it, the friends who has been the part in my life and accepted me and the friends in Amity. Thanks a lot……..

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Co-Incidents

 
The life is full of incidents. We come across the incidents which we have never thought of..  Something which we call as co-incidents, surprise.
 I, after completing my engineering joined MBA in a place 1500km away from my home, or college.. I had to live in a completely new environment away from my family and all friends...It gave me an opportunity to make new friends who are very good, and friendly.
Thanks to all for taking me as their friend. But the past remains in our blood and I was missing my friends.. and was praying for a look of any one from my family or friends..But it was almost impossible to have anyone here as everyone is busy on their own job and miles away from me.. I had a marriage to attend and I went for the functions.. I had some guest from my hometown and I was really enjoying the wedding. Then I stayed there for a day more than my schedule which wasn’t planned.  It was a new place for me also and I didn’t expect myself to go to the station to send off guest in midnight.
  I was just roaming in the station where I suddenly had a hand on my shoulder. I turned my head and had myself in another world. I was just questioning that was I awake or in sleep? I realize it was not a dream. Then questioned myself is it possible? And I believed that yes it has.  I saw one of my friends in the station and only after believing that what I was going through is true, I went to hug him. I was just wishing to keep on hugging him, which was giving me all my college life memories and all friends love.
I was feeling so happy to have a friend there. I used to look for the friends when I used to be at my home which was just 130 km from my college only for the disappointment. But now being 1500km away, with no expectation, desperate to meet friends,  I got one of them here which I felt  was like something that God arranged, allocating  some time for the incident, to remind me that he loves  and care for me.. I couldn’t go ahead without thanking him for such a wonderful gift.

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