Pursuit & Change
I was a below average student up till my seventh grade. But I was already a National Basketball by then. Eighth class was a board class in DAV school, so for some strange reasons I studied and got 75% marks. From then on I have been an above average student. But I have been stuck in that wheel for too long now, I need to break the barriers.
My first lecture, after a break of two years from studies, came at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication. I completed my Telecom and IT engineering, then went on to work as a software engineer. After working for two years, now I am back to square one. But this time it’s different. I am attending classes willingly and regularly, fighting all odds. This time it’s not odds v/s evens but about how I even the odds. The whole paradigm shift has been brought about by the pursuit of my dream. I want to be a film maker, so I have joined SIMC with my specialization as Audio Visual Production. I call it a paradigm shift because I have never attended more than 40 % classes during my engineering days. It was all about friends, play and no studies until the examination sword hung to our heads.
Many people, including my parents, were skeptical of my so called huge change. I have even been accused of running away from doing an MBA or just been attracted to glamour. Being an engineer from a premier institute in India pays a decent amount of money and insures a good standard of living. Over that if you do an MBA your salary will be double, or may be triple, as that of an engineer. It is a safe option and we all get into this rat race without sometimes realizing what we really want to be in life. No offence to those who really want to do a MBA, but the situation I am talking here is my own. Even my interviewer, during the admission process, asked me why I want to leave the huge IT industry and come to unknown and perilous waters.
The only answer to all the questions that have been asked has been that I aspire to be Film Director so I dare to follow my dreams. That though I earn a handsome package, but the work doesn’t leave me satisfied and I don’t find it challenging enough. But deep down in my heart, I always wanted to join the entertainment industry. I had no clue as to how to enter the industry, so I always followed the rat race and took the safer route. Because I had not figured out what I want to be in the entertainment industry, I kept convincing myself that life is long enough and I have enough time to be what I want to be and before that should do what I have in hand (As a bird in hand is better than two in the bush).
But the volcano kept building up inside me, until one not so fine day, while I was preparing for MBA entrance I decided to do away with the whole idea of doing an MBA. Because the sacrifice will go on and on untill one day when I will die thinking that I should have done something better in my life or may be do what I wanted to do. So I decided to stop the preparation right away and started my pursuit for identifying what I should do in the entertainment industry. Finally through all the phases that came in the way up-till now, I have decided to be a film maker. Though I want to make socially relevant film, it will take another paradigm shift and till then the pursuit continues. I pray to God and I am sure without doubt that I will achieve my goal.
My first lecture, after a break of two years from studies, came at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication. I completed my Telecom and IT engineering, then went on to work as a software engineer. After working for two years, now I am back to square one. But this time it’s different. I am attending classes willingly and regularly, fighting all odds. This time it’s not odds v/s evens but about how I even the odds. The whole paradigm shift has been brought about by the pursuit of my dream. I want to be a film maker, so I have joined SIMC with my specialization as Audio Visual Production. I call it a paradigm shift because I have never attended more than 40 % classes during my engineering days. It was all about friends, play and no studies until the examination sword hung to our heads.
Many people, including my parents, were skeptical of my so called huge change. I have even been accused of running away from doing an MBA or just been attracted to glamour. Being an engineer from a premier institute in India pays a decent amount of money and insures a good standard of living. Over that if you do an MBA your salary will be double, or may be triple, as that of an engineer. It is a safe option and we all get into this rat race without sometimes realizing what we really want to be in life. No offence to those who really want to do a MBA, but the situation I am talking here is my own. Even my interviewer, during the admission process, asked me why I want to leave the huge IT industry and come to unknown and perilous waters.
The only answer to all the questions that have been asked has been that I aspire to be Film Director so I dare to follow my dreams. That though I earn a handsome package, but the work doesn’t leave me satisfied and I don’t find it challenging enough. But deep down in my heart, I always wanted to join the entertainment industry. I had no clue as to how to enter the industry, so I always followed the rat race and took the safer route. Because I had not figured out what I want to be in the entertainment industry, I kept convincing myself that life is long enough and I have enough time to be what I want to be and before that should do what I have in hand (As a bird in hand is better than two in the bush).
But the volcano kept building up inside me, until one not so fine day, while I was preparing for MBA entrance I decided to do away with the whole idea of doing an MBA. Because the sacrifice will go on and on untill one day when I will die thinking that I should have done something better in my life or may be do what I wanted to do. So I decided to stop the preparation right away and started my pursuit for identifying what I should do in the entertainment industry. Finally through all the phases that came in the way up-till now, I have decided to be a film maker. Though I want to make socially relevant film, it will take another paradigm shift and till then the pursuit continues. I pray to God and I am sure without doubt that I will achieve my goal.
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