“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?”

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A Brief Introduction....

Hey friends...
This is the first blog ever, so I have decided to write about myself...more specifically about what I do and how I fell into this profession...
I was never an ambitious kid. Noone even was concerned or can say obssessed of making me someone someday. For my father, everything seemed to be alrite and my mother had always been satisfied... seeing us grow groomed and well-fed!!
Once one of my relatives asked me what I want to become when I grow up...and I had no answer! Since typewriter fascinated me those days, I proudly replied.... "I want to be a typist one day"...d mere thought of getting words printed was which carried me away. As for the relative...he was shocked...or even more(i really dont know how to describe his expressions)
Fir as time went, i understood how important it is to decide one's aim....and then began my journey of hunting for a right career...so one day while watching TV I asked my dad if it is ok if i want to become a news reporter? He said it is fine to become anyone I want to be unless I am contended with it. So then I wanted to become a newsreporter...somedays later I wanted to become a journalist! My choices made their way from a chef to a pilot to a teacher...but still journalist remained somewhere in my subconscious mind.
Somewhere then I heard the longest abbrevation of my life "Indian Foreign Services" or IFS and as far a childs imagination could run...I immediately wanted to become one. Ah...so finally, it was like decided that I'll be a journalist first and then apear for UPSC.
O ya one more thing, it had always been my habit of sharing all my thoughts with everyone around me..so all this journey was well known to my small world!!
Fir came 12th ki bhaag daud...aur pata hi nahi chala when I had such a deep liking for biology n human sciences or maybe it must have been because of my increasing dislike for mathematics..it ws as good as greek!!!
So..here I am ....pursuing an entirely different profession ...With a white apron and stetho (of course an injection too)...In dad's words....quite contended with what I am!