Sunday, December 13, 2009

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis ...must read...

Hey guys,
I liked it so I am sharing it.I hope you all will like it too.
"
Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a
balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful.
Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are
all in good order.

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup.
There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not
enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions."

"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run
with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls,
there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and
relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there
is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this
spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
……………….

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life
is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here.
We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we
may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we
really need to get so worked up? …………….

It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up
a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights
with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices........." :)

"Don't be serious, be sincere."!!

2 comments:

Priyanka Chatterjee said...

Good speech by a person who has been a topper of his batch in IIT D then a very good stud in IIM A. Giving speech is easy ,putting down your thoughts are easier but what about the person who actually plays the role in real life and not in reel life?
Life ,destiny are not entirely in our hands but goals may be. We may work towards it keeping the infinite tensions about future to the minimum, but once we lose the goal, everything goes out of our domain....so always have a goal to succeed.

SHANKY said...

But thats the thing na...we NIT Dgpians are not at all serious for studies and show our sincerity in all fundoo things...lolzzz