HUMANS OF SIMSR
Because everyone has a story
Chapter I
Story by:
Richa Chaturvedi
All About Your Choices
Sometimes when you look back, you suddenly feel so great about the choices you made which for once or for a second you feared about, but ultimately it’s your choices that take you to places you want to go. Today, going back to the memory lane and penning my thoughts down, I do feel great about what I chose and where I’ve come.
From starting my primary education from a Hindi medium school in a small district, to shifting to a new city, to facing all the vernacular language hurdles, to being a laughing spot for all the sophisticated students around (who defined their sophistication by their ability to speak fluent English where I could not), to becoming the Head Girl of the same school where I was a laughing spot once, to going the unconventional way and opting for commerce in a city called Kota where studying there is synonymous to being an IITian or pursuing engineering to say the least, to moving to Delhi (which people dread to live in for obvious reasons) for undergraduate course, to doing the craziest things in the 3 years of graduation (which is called the best time of life and it holds true for everyone) and eventually getting a job in one of the most desired companies. Roller coaster ride indeed!
But the actual battle started now. People say that when you grow up, you need to make tough decisions and to my surprise, I thought I had grown up (not by age for sure). A well-reputed job which could land me in the US in 2 years to come or a 2 year MBA program where I could live, laugh and learn. Where there were multiple opinions echoing day and night in my head about job security, future opportunities, getting married and settling down (the most annoying yet the most common one), I somewhere had my heart and mind on one thing and I went to the office the next day and clicked “I submit my resignation” button. I don’t have words to describe that feeling but that click (literally) set me free as never before.
Yes, I was finally going to do an MBA. Although it sounds very exciting and rosy at this point, all those CAT, XAT etc. (which sound like a nightmare now), the taxing admission process actually takes a toll on you and I’m sure the people who are doing an MBA would very well get it right. But in the middle of this hustle and bustle, I always had this desire to study in Mumbai (reason being – “Mumbai ki baat hi alag hai”. This city has got its own vibe which cannot be explained but can only be felt). That’s when KJ SIMSR happened. I think God was being too generous to me.
As I come to the end of it, I get a lump in my throat realizing that the college (the place and phase where I learnt a lot, laughed my heart out and of course lived it to the core) is about to get over but at the same time I feel so overwhelmed to have gotten (both professionally and personally) so much that there was no scope I could ask for more.
In the end and not sounding too dramatic or poetic, I would just say that do not fit in or try to fit in or adjust in other’s place of happiness, rather find your own. And I think all this way, I found mine!
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