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.
