The Taste of Success

Nothing else matters after a success. The moment you achieve one is so wonderful that you'd never want to come out of it. You'd wish it to last till eternity. It's so relieving that you forget every pain, trouble taken to achieve it. Success does wonders. And if, by chance, it comes in your last attempt when you don't have any more re-takes in your hand and you have just one last try, nothing is comparable to that. You feel like flying like a free bird, set free of all the hardships, set free to reach the limit. You feel like giving a treat to everyone you encounter thereafter. You feel like the richest person in the world. And indeed, you become the emperor of the kingdom you call success. The longer it takes to succeed, the more you cherish the success.

That's how I felt after winning an event in our tech-fest. A total of three trials, two already unsuccessful. Into the final trial. Completely tensed, not knowing what would happen. The initial minutes go as planned. Two minutes into the final attempt, everything seems to go wrong. The robot starts to go off the path down the ramp, ready to slip down and slap us with another failure. Everyone starts to lose hope, complete silence. No one dares to speak. A thundering silence I'd call it. The only speakers being the motors of the bot.

Two of the four wheels of the bot are now outside the ramp(a major portion of the bot still on the ramp). Suddenly the bot starts to turn its way back onto the track. There's a clear logic to it but I'll call this only a miracle because then it becomes a little more special. Everyone gets a new lease of life, cheering for the bot to complete the thrilling journey. The bot then finally crosses the finish line and that moment seals our victory. The three of us(I, Manoj and Raveen) have no limits to our happiness. I never felt happier.

When I look back at those times, I realize one thing. That we never gave up however difficult the situation was. The initial failures were indeed very difficult to handle but we kept holding onto it. And it paid off well. We tasted success.

E.T returns!

One night, sitting on a bench and staring at the sky above, I think, "Is someone out there looking at me just like I'm doing?" Answers are in plenty but the one that surfaces above the rest is named Jaadu, yeah the same alien we all met a few years back. Then begins my version of Koi Mil Gaya: Jaadu returns. Here's how it goes.

After returning to his planet, Azeroth, a billion light years away from Earth(that takes just 1 Azerothian day to travel in their 'UFO' but is equivalent to 10 Earth years; theory of relativity, maybe), Jaadu realises the next day that he forgot something back on Earth. He takes the next flight to Earth(which is only 3 days later) and lands on Earth the next day. So he's again back on Earth after 5 Azerothian days or 50 Earth years.

Coming out of the spaceship expecting to see the same old Earth he left 5 days back, he's horrified to see nothing but debris all around. In a hope to find some answers, he wanders around the whole planet and manages to find just a broken piece of a disk. Using some kind of advanced Azerothian technology, he deciphers the data on the disk. This is what he understands from it, "...launch(the missiles) if the talks fail. ..if we can't have it, let them also not have it..."

The next day when he's back on the Azerothian soil to see everything like it was before he left, he feels elated. At the same time, he's cautious enough to spread the word to the top officials of the Kingdom. They learn their lesson when they read the note that Jaadu provides them which reads, "The Earth is no more."

May be every story doesn't have a happy ending, but every story does have a moral to share.