Life has a Meaning !!!

Each time I open up my eyes with the sun, I have a complete day in front of me. Each morning prompts me to set up plans and fabrications of the day in my hands. The day passes in no time, night rules and the 5 minutes before sleep prompt me again to ponder ……. Was the day meaningful?

Every day need not be meaningful. It may not fetch results. There may well be phases of weeks and passing weeks which go just as a null with no output. But then, what matters is the choices …… which we make and the actions ……… which we do.

Are they in sync with what our goal is? Even if not oriented towards the goals, are they meaningful enough to give you a daily dose of happiness …. Happiness which isn’t bothered by past failures and successes. Happiness which isn’t biased by the verdict of the outside world. Happiness which is my own, which belongs to me, which is created by me and terminates in myself being finally …. Happy.

Happiness and satisfaction may be the ultimate aims of a life, but what’s the use of it when a happiness attained is due to the other one losing, not due to you winning the game. It’s the perspective which turns the relevance of happiness upside down : it is then driven by the mood of others and not by me ….. well, this wasn’t the kind of life that I had dreamt of !!!

Life attains a meaning when you have a reason to do every action, a reason which leads to a satisfaction. Providing life with a meaning is different from producing results, it’s the process instead which matters.

The way we CHOSE our means of happiness, our reasons of satisfaction and our actions committed to these two, decides the extent of the meaningful life.

Let’s make a new goal, lets decide what we want to achieve …… and then decide what all we need to sacrifice to achieve that goal. Let’s give this extra large life a meaning, be it small, but let it saturate with lumps of satisfaction and smiles.

Larger be the life, lesser be the time.

Let’s decide goals such that you get ample time to breathe and live.

Not much in my mind right now …. Happy New Year !!!

[Smiles and smiles all around 🙂 ]

Snehil Basoya

 

Friends, IITians, Countrymen …

The Great Indian Bhasad

Friends, IITians, Countrymen

As the new year 2011 begins, we are here neither to remember the immense beautiful moments of the just went 365 glorious days (for those who found them glorious), nor we are here to mourn over those days which we want to revert back somewhere deep within our hearts. We are here to discuss some really considerable and important issues.

These issues may not seem to hold any importance in many of our lives, yet they are worth consideration for the time being. You are most welcome to enjoy the New Year Celebrations rather than spending a few minutes on the coming bullshit.

On the verge of my last semester of DEFINING my future, the few issues, which are creating droughts and floods of thoughts and opinions within my nervous system are as follows.

1. The Placement Season this year at IIT Delhi has by far shown tremendous uproar from preceding years, with luring packages, variety of opportunities (though a vast audience is still awaiting for the first blood, my wishes for them, finish it soon !!!). I have heard at least 20 stories on “How the Placements will SURELY decrease next time” and equal rubbish on “How the Market will SURELY rise the next year”.

I hereby submit a humble request to all my batch-mates NOT to maintain calm and considerate while scoring next sem. When you visit your dear professors to ask for changes in grades and marks for the whole class (without consulting anyone!), kindly think of poor chaps like me for once. Decisions of one or two students driven by their OWN interests can alter the future of a whole class ….. kindly consider it (just in case!)

2. BRCA is improving day by day, incorporating more and more havoc every event in each of its nine Clubs. The past one year, I have been a major witness of several interesting occasions such as

1. Biased Judging,
2. Chutiya Judging,
3. Hostel politics in deciding the positions,
4. Two hostels fighting and ANTI-CHEERING on 3^rd and 4^th positions,
5. Reps of 2^nd year often dominated by their hostel seniors,
6. The Newest Tradition – If Your Hostel is Not Prepared, talk to others and SCRAP the event !!!
7. Fingers on Each and Every Club Secy,
8. Intervention of Politically Motivated people in clubs,

And etc, etc, etc ….

I, myself being a Dance and Dramatics Rep once, am now a stone-hearted follower of the Cultural system at IITD, who has no interest left in any of its events, neither to attend, nor to take part ……. This insolent nature has left him emotionless of the achievements and opportunities both of which are taken by the world as victory and defeat, and ego.

I hereby submit a humble request to all narrators of BRCA (including the secys, the reps, the participants and the politicians who play with them) to TRY, with their honest hearts, not to spoil the already spoilt culture any more. God Hail BRCA !!!

3. The season of External and Internal Politics which sucks a complete 3 months in the campus has begun!!! Those with the aims and ambitions fasten their seat belts. Those with desires and dreams start making contacts! Those with past and furious egoism, jealous, enmity and greed get ready to deliver. Gentlemen and Ladies who are great “senti-masters” and keep boasting of “friendships” and “relationships” have got a perfect opportunity to prove their mettle. And last but not the least, those with no other ambition than “Insti ko Aukaat dikhana”, have already begun their home works and are simply ready to eject out the inner erotica.

Let’s welcome the season of calculations, permutations and combinations, probability and statistics which indulges the Cream of the Nation in reckless blind dates carried on for months ……. After last years’ elections (which in turn turned out to be a blessing in disguise for me, at least I was kept away of the ruthless inferno of the campus and hostel!), I am no more interested in who wins and who loses. With no more personal intentions left, let’s preserve the energies for correct moments and correct people.

A sincere Best of Luck to all those participating in this ever-interesting game !!!

Friends, let’s make our place IIT Delhi a better place to live in the next coming months. May 2011 will witness a completely different Institute and a completely different approach to life for each one of us. So let’s decide to put in our best in whatever.

Thanks a lot for being patient readers.

Snehil Basoya.