Tilludada

Hey friends I am back again with a bit new type of IDEA in my mind to express in front of you all.

I was approximately 9 years old when I was taken to a temple of Lord Vithala in my native. There was a Prathana running every Sunday at 9am in morning. They used to say when Cement is wet we can shape it afterwards it’s impossible, children are like wet cement. So to conclude my Granmaa took me every Sunday there for Prathana. There I met a small boy who said “I am a Rushi I am into a session of meditation”, in a very innocent manner as I that particular age nobody knows what mediation is and what are its benefits. I was taken aback by that guy’s way to treat elders at that age it was amazing. Teachings given by his family showed there.

Later we became very good friends and I got to know few facts about his family and him. He was an average guy who is living in a town like Solapur but with few extra ordinary qualities. To define him I can only say 3 words, Relationship, Daring, and Hard Work. These are the words which describes him very perfectly. His life until now is completely bounded by the triangle created by these 3 qualities as end points of an equilateral triangle.

I was in 11^th standard when I came to know about his failure in studies I was really upset due to his failure. That day he said me one thing which made me closer friend of him. He said “Success is not a thing which can be achieved only be education or good marks, it can be a achieved by your efforts I have the guts of giving efforts I will be successful, one day don’t worry much.“ It gave a very good thought to me that day. It reminded me of a dialog in movie “3 Idiots”.

He first started from a Job of a compounder in small local Physician’s clinic. I always liked his dedication in whatever he does. People around him always used to praise him about the qualities he had. His first job started with a pay in 3digits. Then too he was cool about it. He used to enjoy his life to the fullest. He used to say me that “Making relationships doesn’t take much from you but gives you all the benefits of your life.”

He also had a quality of making all the girls around him his sisters. It’s actually a good quality but a drawback of him aroused when he made any girl his sister. He used to do whatever the girl says to do for her with the complete dedication.

I was in 12^th when I used to go to his jewelry shop. Ohho!! Don’t get me wrong, he by then had started as a helper into jewelry shop. He learnt how to sell jewelry, how to prepare it, how to repair it, and the main and the most important thing in jewelry business i.e. how to identify its authentication. By end of my 12^th, he was trained and was offered good pay buy one of the rivals of the shop he was working in. He didn’t accept it as it was against his rules of relationship. Mother of the shop owner used to treat him as her child.

He was the only employee in the jewelry shop who used to be in the shop from start of the day to end of the day. He was the only employee who also used to help the shop owner in his other tasks just for the sake of relationship. He showed me a real meaning of dedication towards someone or something.

His family was a joint family of 3 brothers. They had a problem in them due to money and property issue. His dad was a guy who ran a flour mill. It was running in loss since many years. He was by now having responsibility of his sister’s marriage also. He never expressed all of his pains and family issues in front of all of us. He is a very jolly person. I learnt a quality from him; the day I got to know all the facts about him was “Laugh in your pains so that they reduce exponentially”.

I got admission for BCS in Pune it was a very big movement form me that day. He was the person who was the happiest after me that day. He also had few things running in his mind that “Now Souraya will leave us, now he will be meeting us with a gap of months, he will be going far away” But he was the happiest as he thought “Let Souraya in Pune, he is our friend by heart he will never forget us, it’s good for his future life and career. I am happy just for him and his success”. This displayed me his quality of being happy in friend’s happiness.

Later I joined Patni Computers in Airoli, Mumbai. One fine morning I received a call from a local number from Mumbai. I was shocked to hear that this guy is in Mumbai and has left his house for better work and pay. He faced many disasters in Mumbai. He was caught by cops and sent to prison for one night as he was without ticket on VT station in Mumbai. He was released buy cops and he planned for a watchman’s job in one of the buildings nearby. As he was good at making good relationships with people, he also got a job for society near VT. That deal was cancelled just because of the pay.

He then took help of one of our common friend and joined a much renounced sweets shop in Pune. His journey from Solapur – Mumbai –Pune was horrible. But then too he managed to handle such situations also.

Now he is the most trusted employee in the same sweet shop from approx 3 years. He is now the most dedicated, hard working,, employee there. He is successful on his own today. He is planning to shift his whole family to Pune in near future, with his own responsibility. He is now settled in this job now. He also is happy for whatever he has achieved till now and is also planning for many more new things to be achieved. So all the best Tilludada......

Self-Made Man

Hi Friends as I had promised I m ready with my first article... This is an article on one of my friend who has fought though out his life for successful survival and he has also is successful in it. So friends here we go....

It was my first day of collage in Pune. My dream to take education in Pune was to come true from today. I entered a class room; I saw many groups in the class formed from before. Few of them were from their previous collage or schools or just area friends. I was new to all. I am a jolly person so I can mix up with any one at any time so I was cool. I saw a guy with few fellow friends who talked to me first time as a friend. This guy looked normal and was a bit silent. I thought that he must be amongst the people like me, coming from different cities to seek good education in Pune. Later I came to know that this guy is a small town guy who is living here in Pune since his first standard with one of his real uncle. I thought that his group is appropriate for me to jump in. I started bonding with this group. I found this guy some what outstanding in the whole group as he was very mature since then and many more qualities I was impressed about in his personality.

One fine day at my hostel gate, we were planning for some late night study. He said to me that he will not be able to come. I inquired the reason. He said that he is employed on a night job as a House keeping guy in an IT company working under a contractor since 6 months. I was feeling proud that I have a friend who is so practical to life that he studies on his own self. He pays his fees by his own and we all still rely on our parents for our needs. He used to get the payment insufficient to his needs for a good education, but he used to manage all without showing his pains to his parents. He also used to use only one book for all subjects.

Canteen was a place was we used to have very long discussions about our favorite subject i.e. C language. That day I went to canteen I saw him some what sad. He narrated me about his family issue regarding his father and his issue about his collage fees & tuition fees. He was worried as the amount was insufficient even after saving from his night job. I suggested him about some education loan. He denied as if I was suggesting him to suicide. He was very against any loans as he believed that loans ruined our life and make us slaves.

Hi was so dedicated to his studies and his aim that he used to go to collage in evening time or in the days of collage holidays & weekends to study. He used to take me also with him for studies. He had once requested the collage peon for the permission of sitting in collage premises for studies on weekends and holidays. We also used to study at a Hanuman temple near his house at night in cold weather. Some day I used to skip due to more cold or mosquitoes around (as the temple was on a river bank), but he used to sit and study as to not disturb his family members sleeping in the house at night.

We had a girl in our class who always used to come in the list of toppers in the class. Once I spoke in front of him that I want to get more score that that girl. He narrated a sentence that I still keep as a learning of lifetime for me when ever I am stuck in a competition. It was “When ever there is a competition don’t ever think of pulling others down, but just think of how you can go ahead of others by your efforts and only efforts”. We came in the rankers of collage that year. He was 1st that girl was 2nd and I was 3rd that year.

That one whole year was a very memorable journey for me as I am a average student and from other city and was in rankers of the collage. I got may “Pat On The Back Awards” from my relatives, family and teachers also. I would consider that guy responsible for my so called first success up till then as he was like a big brother for me in a new city. He was also an inspiration for me for working hard as I user to see his hard work of managing all collage, tuition, and night job and health also. Hats off to his efforts as after doing all this he was the topper of our collage that year.

Due to job necessity through campus recruitment I left the collage after one year and took admission in one of the Pune’s renowned collages providing job guarantee. I had to leave the complete friends group. I was still updated about all our friends. I came to know that this guy was hired as lecturer in the same institute he was taking tuition. The person who was providing him coaching promised to take care of all his needs and his collage fees also. I was happy for him as he had again proved that he is sculpting his life by his hands. I used to regularly visit him at his work place as he used to also stay in the same place where he used to coach students. It was very difficult for him as well to stay there but he used to manage things as he was dedicated to studies and the Sir of that institute. He was in the process of dual learning. One he was completing his academic career and second he was seeking professional education for the working of class and business tactics involuntarily. He never had any intentions of betraying the Sir who helped him in his tuff times.

Last year of our graduation arrived, my family was distributed in 2 parts me, my Dad in Pune and Mom, Sis and Grand ma in Solapur. Our real economic struggle started then. I thought of a plan as this guy used to teach and study why cant I. So I one day took some tips and started the same as he did. I was good at C & C++ so I started teaching these subjects in some private institute. He used to help me in clearing my concepts and droughts as well.

Once we were roaming around in Pimpri at night 12:30 AM, a thought struck to his mind. Those days he had some mishaps occurred with the Sir of his institute and he had left the job there. The thought was to start with a coaching class. I was also involved in this plan. It was a sure shot successful plan as we both were not at all bad mentors. It was the day when we planned for Techno Comp Academy. It was a very successful attempt as we had just done mouth publicity and received an overwhelming response as his reputation as a Lecturer was awesome. Students used to believe in him as a Teaching Angel those days. I was astonished with such a huge response and it still exists.

We are still very good friends. He is now a settled person in his life. He has a bike of his own. He as also very strong economically now. He also commenced his sisters marriage. So only I call him a one and only one Self-Made Man in my surroundings.

Real heroes around me.

Omm Namaha Shivay!

OMM a very common and perfect way to start any thing. It is said in Hindu tradition that any thing is started by chanting the mantras for Lord Ganesha but has any body noticed that before chanting mantra for Lord Ganesha we start with this source of energy of the universe i.e. OMM by saying ‘OMM Gan Ganapatye Namaha!’

It’s too traditional to start in such a way but this will perfectly depict my personality. I am a Brahman Guy. I am also a common man not so wealthy but a bit healthy (feeling shy to say FAT directly but I m so).

I have not seen life very much as from my child hood I used to be in only my world as mad people roaming in the world created by them. I never used to go to play in the local area boys as my parents would say they are dirty, impolite, clumsy, ill-mannered and much more and you should not have any of those qualities. They forgot only one thing that by doing this they are not just saving their child from socializing but also restricting his social progress. Let’s leave it, it’s past now. I am still trying to grow up socially.

I have seen very little world but found few diamonds from the mine of coal. I would like to describe their lives from my views.

Its not that they have done something very daring or dashing but they are those who have very common qualities but have done acts which are really brave. These stories are real and trustworthy. These stories will also depict very powerful impact of human relationship over ones life.

So friend just wait and watch out this space for the first story and a person who has molded his own life by his own rules and values and is peaty successful today. He also has changed my file to a very great extent and is a very close friend of mine.

Friends just watch out …