When change altered the stability

It starts with a realization of something being wrong in the usual. Then, very innocently it shows you a solution, a way out, something that is new and gives you a tinkering little bit of excitement towards using it no matter whether you have the power to kill the excitement or not but that is 'Change' to me.
And then there is the other one, the calm lake, the one that seems so quiet that there might have been ages since its surface ever knew any disturbance at all. Everyone loves it. Even the nature's rules favour it. Everything in this universe heads towards.. Stability.
Even our mind does. The sole existence of all our needs and wants is directed towards a better living, a peaceful mind or if we use the one word that sums it all up, stability. The funny thing is, if we read this last line of mine carefully, change is the sole hero, not stability. I mean wherever change goes stability follows, and not the other way round. So all our lives we keep on fighting the king, to get the queen whereas if we cordially invite the king to a dinner party some day, the queen follows up in his wake. Now I was gonna start this article with the following para, but I left it to time as I had other important things to do and lo, I found this beautiful little explaination with time. So here goes:
Working till late one night or rather, in my first unofficial night shift, I realized that the work was not gonna end today. I was new and like many freshers, was afraid of taking initiative in any situation. The Clock was ticking and ticking... and the mouse was still clicking under my finger and on and on.. It was tedious work and unlike usually, was unmindful. I was alone in office so after some gaps of work, I would stare around me in disbelief. "How did I end up in this situation?" "Why could I not say 'No' to him? It anyways was not my work and he literally pasted it onto me so cleverly and went home like everyone. The rascal. How stupid of me!"
This was Arjun Sharma to you. Ek Satyawaan Pandit ka Saakshaat udaharan. :D (An epitome of a true 'Pandit') I would not have used this word that I am just about to quote but I don't know somehow I don't care whatsoever now. I was a Coward. Thats not what my mother or people who brought me up ever taught me to be like but you know as they say it that some things you do not learn, its what you are. And so I was, an ever so talented looking, one with straightforward ideals, curiously attracted towards knowledge and facially cute-looking boy from outer crust to the innermost layer of the mantle, but (..and no-matter how much my mother and well-wishers tried to change it while they felt they could) a cowardly core. They say that they'd slap me and run away and I'd not realise it, but the truth is I had already noticed their intentions when they felt they should slap me but could not react well to stop them.
Let me be abrupt now, I beg you. Be it less time or some other reason, but I can't be more frank regarding this change that I am talking about. I can still quote its effects. So, at that time I was still immature, clung to my attitude as if it will stay with me and go with me. I might have been happy or might not have been. But I was living it, not feeling a need for any change at all. I felt I was powerless to change course anyways. But lets just say I found a sparkling drop of water on my windowsill one day and I innocently touched it. I can't express the soaring feeling, the realisation of truth, of care, of responsibilities, of what is right and what is wrong and power to support right and say 'no' to the wrong. The powers that I already had, but stupidly as it is I never felt that I did. And I must say, I am showing it off as if it was sudden but No, it was gradual and very very painful. And I found I had the power to bear that. However, I was also surprised that I liked it. I even wished for more. Because somehow I knew that in some time I'd see the other end, which I did. Somehow, I am calm now and much more happy with my decisions than earlier. And whats more, I am still changing.
But rather than opposing it, I am embracing it. I love the fact that I have my own opinions now. So the truth is, we are happily standing on a preferred step of a ladder. We feel no need for the change and also feel that we might not get a grip on the next step and fall. So we keep standing there. But why have we become so afraid and weak? Man is so different from other animals because of his ability to think about a step further. Get up couch potatoes, buckle up for the journey called life on the cycle of change. You can stop in the way to take breath and catch up with your stability. And then move on again..

Aamir Khan. Salutes to the perfectionist!

When I heard the comments. I was shocked. Could not believe it was you making it sir. But I backed you among my friends. 

"He must have meant something."

Inside however, I was fighting with my mind to find the answer. This is your spirit. This is why I respect you so. You are a great teacher. You knew this would happen. You knew people would blacken your face in public and burn your effigies. That was all that was left with the so-called 'self-crowned thekedars' (ठेकेदार). They know the Indian public is sitting on fuel. And they have the matchbox. But that did not matter. Because ultimately they'd explain it for you. And what an impact it made.... much much better than your sole statement could ever make. I understand you fully now. You did not say anything political. You explained a feeling deep within us all, just like your movies. What a common man feels deep inside for his neighbour, his family, his opposite sex, his leaders, the media, and maybe that news airing on the TV where a leader of any religious sect was screaming like mad, for example sakes. Confusion, fear, anger; our day-to-day lives are full of it. We are all too scared about everything to think deep about anything. So, Thank you sir!

Born to succeed?! I don't think so...

I did not work too hard to reach where I am today. Which is why I don't have much to complain about when I see someone who did it. Life is always fair to us. Which also means that if I start today and work harder than anyone of them did back then, the hare might still catch up and cross the finish line with a better record. So is that all? It is my belief that many of you might have felt at some point in life that there is something more than that in it. If you have not, let me tell you why I think I felt so. In my college days I had a friend from Zimbabwe who was in India on a student exchange program. Now when I met this very unusual guy, I had no idea that he would make a paradigm shift in me not that he didn't look like that. He had a very distinguished personality. If maybe he didn't catch your eye in the first look, he'd certainly grab all your attention after the first conversation. Now he joined the college a little later than the first day so I had the apportunity to grab the most intelligent person seat in the class. I can still remember the first math test in which I topped the class(And he scored about 10/40 :p :D). Now I have a very bad habit, when I feel that now there is no cat around, I leave the milk in open. In the initial stages of any task, I show total commitment to others and to myself, but after showing best performance in the beginning, as a habit I define my limits and relax.
            So, I was good at understanding and explaining which was why my presentations were very good in class but I was a su*#er at working hard. I still remember a line he told me once which is I believe even today, the most genuine thing I've ever heard and I am not harking. It was "If you work hard you can still overcome your inabilities. But talent without hard work is a tragedy!" You might have born in an artist's house and you can keep bragging about it but at the end its you yourself and whatever is your personality and talents is what you have gathered for yourself after coming to this world empty handed.