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श्री अंशुल उवाच ॥

(Anshul speaks)

                    PAST                             PRESENT                                               FUTURE

          

Consider a scene….

Son(going to market, a km. distance away): Mom, where are my bike’s keys.

Mother: Where are you going??

Son: Market.

Mother:  It has been years since you used your cycle last.

Son:  Yes, because its for kids. Got to go fast, can u please tell me where are the keys.

Mother: I saw them last in your bag..

                                     (next morning)

Son: Mom going to gym

                              (Starts bike and goes to gym)…

Meanwhile in home.

Mother( humming, gathering coriander from fridge):  Repeated show of last night’s “Sasural Simar ka” must be coming, thank God to this Tata sky + that I am able to record theses shows even while preparing chutney.

                                    (Switches on the Grinder)

                                                Gzzz…     Gzzzzz….
Mother: Here it is done!!

Mother: Being alone feels secure.

                                                   (Switching on the TV)

                                    (Cracking knuckles and twisting wrists).

Had these gyms and so-called fitness centers been made during my youth, my joints would not have pained so much today.

Do not lie that you have not seen this scene a dozen of times in your own home. It’s a daily routine, which every family follows in this ultra-modern ‘Kali-Yuga’.

Lets think, presently, what activity we call primitive and what we call Modern.

Singing bhakti songs, using cycles, playing hide and seek, nurturing cows & drinking liters of their milk, playing football, using silvattas and firkis while cooking, learning Gita and still excelling in academics is primitive.. …There was a time when I used to play Rummy and Teen Do Paanch with my kins…But these things are old now… driving on busiest of roads at 80 kms/hr and then breaking your bones is modern, sitting in front of TV for hours and suffering from spondylitis, back pain, head-ache, acidity is modern, girl showing off her skin on beach is modern. A boy using “f words” publically is modern while a boy who speaks Hindi mostly is primitive. Eighth standard kid smoking is modern while a kid visiting pilgrimage with his family is primitive…Early to bed and Early to Rise can be found on in a kid’s moral science book.. Watching movie until 3 am is modern…Father teaching his kid his first Drinking lessons is modern while telling a kid to learn The Gita is primitive. A boy demanding Rs. 25000/- machine for playing is modern. School with facilities of Olympic size swimming pool, gymnasium, central air-cooling, air-conditioned buses is modern. While the Path-shalas from where the saints originated are completely extinct. Schools which focus only on education (from which I belong too) without considering these high-tech facilities are primitive. The fact is that we, Indians particularly are so much influenced by the Western culture that we don’t understand what is really good for us.

 There were days when Tange Walas, rickshaws and cycles roamed this land. But a horse running at 30 km/hr is too slow...Call it, Sheep of Today..People used cycles  for 10 kms, consuming 1 hr, no problem still. Now the scene has “modernized”. Fuming beasts have conquered the roads, going to gym and fitness centers for an hour is a status symbol and necessity hence—after all, developing biceps and abs is the foremost task that Gad has given to us, spending a few 1000 bucks per month. Then they say—“Mehngai bahut badh gai h/ Inflation”. People do not think that we actually don’t need such fitness centers. Doing your work manually is enough to keep yourself healthy. If our grandparents used that “Silvatta”( used for grinding vegetable between two stones) I don’t think that was “primitive” , in fact that was “wiser and better”. Today we have a gadget for brushing out teeth too. Judge yourself, what is better? Manually adjusting the brush through your hand or the mesh of wires, motor and battery vibrating in your mouth? Modern one,, isn’t it???,,yes the electronic one..so we don’t have to even move our wrists.

By simple calculations, done manually time is saved, not wasted. Doing dusting manually with a cloth daily instead of a vacuum cleaner keeps you much much healthier. Otherwise, yes you are smarter, switch ON the machine, take just 15 min to clean your room, spend an hour in gym tomorrow, and pay few extra bucks for your electricity bill in addition to Gym charges. Smart enough. Even God cannot make them believe that the prices have not increased as much as your desires have increased. Eating Oatmeal or what I call it as Goat meal) in the morning after the ‘burger and pizza party’ in the previous night does not make any sense. That ‘Aloo k Parathe wali party’ is a lot better that ‘Cheeze Pizza’ wali party. Eating Golgappas/Pani-puris, Pao-Bhajis,  Pohas at stalls is a lot better than eating burgers, pastries and hot-dogs. Fact is that our ancestors were much more healthier than we are + more resistant to weather, food + they had a longer life expectancy. A person crossing 100 years of age is a rare sight today.  Drinking tetra-packed milk( Rs 50 around/ litre) for few years and taking headache of being too slim or over-weight daily  is much costlier that buying a cow. You say watching hot-shot actresses and models on youtube then flirting with you classmate is modern and listening bhakti songs in the morning is primitive..Nobody I think is willing to hear those “Shera Wali” songs that echo by the sides of the roads..After all, Munnis, Sheilas and Jalebi Bais are lot lot modern..Glittering Goddesses of our times..Everybody wants to hum their songs, see their glories on TV, Youtube,,,Every child wants to imitate them… You know that’s the reason of such an increased number of crimes. Then mentality that such high tech facilities have given to us Is the reason of crimes. Many times, it happened that I went to shopping malls and saw school kids keeping their hands on their so-called girlfriend’s or boyfriend’s waist (and vice-versa). That is the reason of crimes. Kids learn from TV, they learn from Video Streaming sites, they copy celebrities and then they do what they learnt while their parents are not watching, in tuitions, in cinema halls, parks and even in schools during recess. College is complete freedom, what to say about it.  Shout it to companies that if allowing vulgar videos and pics on your site is being modern, then we are happy in being primitive, we are happy in what you call as Ancient. Then why go for such Hi-tech, highly organized, packetized ultra modern advanced future when actually our past is so good. Being influenced by Western culture so much that you forget the your morals is idioticity.

Since discussing problems is not a solution. So let us think what to do in this scenario, where most are getting wrong. I personally feel spiritualism is one method in getting out of such problems. Don’t get bored. Spiritualism is not that boring. I trusted it, and that too is a fact. If our ancestors believed it, lets give an ear to this too. If Apple and Samsung companies are developing apps that read Gita shlokas for the user, it means there is something into it.
Let me give u a video which my friend showed to me..

                                                      ( I apologize, the video is in two parts)

It is one of the best videos that ISKCON has developed. It truly seems that Me and My Mind are two different things. We can easily differentiate between right and wrong, but the mind dominates the heart, which is always correct. Even Arjuna was bewildered to know that it is easier to control an elephant but far harder to control your own mind. Materialism creates duality in mind. It is useless to mention that already your mind over loaded with your office/ school and college, family, household responsibilities, friends and list continues. Double folding to the misery comes the attraction to opposite gender, food, money, nightclubs, discos, x boxes etc etc. These ingredients hamper the taste of life, creating duality in our mind. Suffusing “materialistic paglait” in our mind. Create bad karmas, the unwise use of brain.

Remember, “The Challenge Is Not In Enjoying The Senses. But The Challenge Is In Not Enjoying The Senses”. Because over indulgence of senses is the cause of non-constructive thoughts, which we idiots call as ‘Modernization of human society’, which is the key ingredient of misery. 

Thanks to ISKCON..

Hare Krishna…

Let Your Animality Blaze Up

                          

Friend A: Yar,kal raat to josh aa gaya mujhe. Maine thaan li thi,,chahe muje puri raat hi jagna kyu na pad jaye,,lekin exam ko to phod k aana h.

Friend B: Yar,mujse jaga hi ni jata puri raat. 2 unit chodh k aya  hu.

Guess what makes “A” different from “B”

(You can take a hint from the picture above)                      

                                         

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                          !    “A” has an Animal inside him.     !

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Have u ever seen a “cock fight”? No? Take a more common example, a ‘Dog fight’? ’Cat fight’? (No, I am not talking about two girls fighting for a boy. Lucky dude!!). For those who have not seen two cats fighting, I have given a pic above displaying Lion vs. Tiger, both of which fall under the species of Cats biologically. You know what’s common among all these fights….? Either one must stand and one must fall. One lives and other dies. None of them is willing to give an inch of his edge to the other but both of them are chunks of ordinary flesh. This is their “Animal Instinct” with which we Homosapiens are much less stuffed. Saying euphemistically, I call it their “Animalilty” that they fight until their last breath. One of the most common comments I have heard since my childhood is-“Anshul,tum gusse mein Jaanwar ban jate ho”(Anshul, u behave like an animal when u r angry).Frankly speaking, I always took it as a compliment. Perhaps, of all the instincts that we humans have lost during our evolution from Apes to Homosapiens, this “Animality” is the most precious one. We, the developed counter part of Apes have developed the tendency of ‘giving up’ rather than fighting for it. It is not that I always prefer a fight or a trauma over a peaceful conversation but I’m just putting the weight over the fact that animals do have much stronger ‘will to do’. Since childhood, I have seen many people drenched in their lethargy and their unwillingness to fight and to struggle. “Arey kaun kare ye kaam,hamse ye ni ho sakta. ”. Such common words and idioms are ruling over every element of the society. If God has to make a poll of “The Most Lethargic Species”, I bet we humans will score far above than those wild animals.

Humans, in general dont have much guts, they fear even if they know they are stronger. Not making a joke of my own species but it is a fact that an ant curbs its fear much more than humans. And so are honeybees, mosquitoes, lizards, street dogs and all those ‘weaks’. A common Macaque monkey is much weaker form of life. Yes, it’s the same old little thief that takes your towel which you hang outdoor in the sunlight after bath. The same old pal who once snatched a guava from my hand while I was wandering in The Chittaurgarh Fort. But has any one of us has ever tried to fold our sleeves and go hand to limb with the monkey, without using a stick or a baton, completely bare handed? We cannot do anything except shouting and putting a flea in its ear. It is the monkey’s animality that makes us feel weak and frightened. Leave that aside, a common rat eating rotten bread is enough to make you jump. I bet rat’s anger is enough to make a human homeless temporarily. If a rat is angry with you, I am sure you will be teetering on the brink. Go and pray Lord Ganesha, that your only solution. It is the rat’s animality that I am talking about. Even a housefly maintains its trajectory upwards even in the roughest of weather. Needless to say, a lion can make us get fainted by its silhouette only (Until and unless we are sitting on an elephant along with a guard who has a gun in his hand).Fear of failure is deeply cored in the soul of humans. And here they lose they animality. Yes, I am talking to you Mr/Ms. Reader, the Chimpanzee which you saw in tv is much determined, enthusiastic, strong willed and fearless than you.  Do not escape and wipe off the guilt from your hands. Humans really do not have much stomach for fear. No need to call it ‘The Wrath of God’. Call it incontinence. We just put a plaster on our face reflecting the tag of the most evolved species of the Earth. Fate of the Earth and all its proteins. A monkey is enough to crack the pillar of our much cited success story. Our tag of ‘The Most Evolved Species’ has been bootlegged. What a shame!!

A few days ago, I was watching a program on NGC based on Evolution of man. I learnt that there must have been a time 1000’s of years ago, when The Neanderthals(less developed predecessors of modern Homosapiens) had to fight an animal double of their size with a stick. They were much fearless because they knew either they must fight or face death.  It is not that The Almighty has gifted us less. If nature has gifted an elephant with strength, it has provided us with our brain. It is our fear that makes us fall, not our size. Therefore, the animal inside us must be tamed, trained to fight with the stronger.. Don’t be stupid to think that each day you are going to fight with an elephant. Stronger I mean with your fear. Fear of Failure. Of Injury. Of Pain. The thing that makes us ‘un-animal’ will definitely throw us at the corner of the smallest storeroom. Fear is so powerful that sometimes we feel helpless before it. We do not realize that we ourselves the source of its power, and that we can take it back. There are people who live fearless. Not any of them is a knight with a shining armor, but their determination is their magic wand. They realize that fear to lose is not a natural part of their being, but rather a product of the mind, a fantasy that grips and destroys, nut a fantasy nonetheless. Through their knowledge and practice, they conquer their mind’s habit of creating fear. Their Animality speaks. . Once we get the iota of fear, you will feel your entire belly is dancing. Our civility must not lead to dilution of our tenacity. Your Animality must speak.

LET YOUR ANIMALITY BLAZE UP!!!!

Langoor Ke Hath Mein Angoor

Leave the desktop or your lappy aside (or PC in other case) and check if your mobile is displaying “1 message received”. Is it? If yes, reply the message first and then come to the screen again.

Wait wait…Have u forgot to text your friend about your new Hi-tech toy? Nups? Then text your friend first.

Oho..How can you forget checking your facebook profile? It might be possible that u have received a new friend request or a new post. If not, then its time to put a new facebook status. Till the next page on ur facebook profile opens. Minimize that window and open the chat window of orkut and facebook. You can try your luck if u can see your girlfriend or boyfriend online..

At the same time, search the latest album on your ipod..Time to crash some symphony waves with your eardrums.

Meanwhile, open your Google-box and shuffle the deck of channels.

Then repeat the all above four activities until you complete your next 24 hours and the next 24 hours of the next 24 hours and so on until you are fully satisfied.

                                                                       (a)

       

                                                                      (b)

Ok,,,done now? No? Is something still left? Do that now and then if you feel free , please come to your computer  and alleviate yourself. See the two pics, then answer a simple question..

Which of the two pics seem more alike to you?

(a) The  Langoor with a mobile.

(b) The Langoor with a headphone and a mobile.

Am I mistaken? Your PC might be displaying a boy with two tech-toys. Now close your eyes for a minute and think what you did with your “a multiple of 24” hours of life (Please do not include this minute). Now see both the pictures again and re-check the options of my above question. Am I mistaken? Surely, NOT.

This is what which happens when a “Langoor” picks an “Angoor”.

Bounded with my habit of not concerning the dictionaries and encyclopedias, I define my two adjectives, the “Langoor” and the “Angoor”. Well friends (wait a minute, I received a message from my friend.. I am replying him first……………………………two minutes gone……………..Ok, done). So, where was I? Yes,

 Well friends, “ Langoor”  is that idiot who texted his  friend first in the above few lines and wasted 2 minutes of his  precious life and some Kilo Joules of energy over this unwanted but very necessary agenda. Do not grin. Similarly are you. “Angoor” I define with those gilted tech-toys that have virtually invaded the mind of every person in this man-made earth. We have various flavors of Angoors ruling the electronic market. I-pods, mobiles, radios, i-phones, x-boxes, palmtops and their upcoming hybrids that hem around you and never let you move an inch away from them. It seems, it is not the gravity which holds you on Earth, in fact, it is the bond that the “Angoor” has created holds the “Langoor” with it. Do not hide your face with hands. Show the sly grin that you are masquerading. Say it candidly aloud. This is a naked truth. Deep inside your heart, you know the “Langoor” of you. These so-called “Angoors” have invaded the mind of every citizen residing on this on this “ God created and Man invaded Earth” .Much hyped Angoors easily attract kids and eat big lumps of hours each day proving themselves to be a gigantic boondoggle leaving their eyes webbed with red arteries. The same concept also affects their physical health. Gaping the x-boxes until 3 a.m and then pleading Mom not to go to school that day not only creates a stress but also sketches your academic graph down towards the origin which finally turns them sullen. When it comes to LAN gaming, loss in hours is directly proportional to the team spirit and fun added together. Many times, I have seen kids making ostentation that how he sliced that demon and how to end the trickier part of the game. Ok, leave this aside now. Think what a kid must do after it chatting for hours with his/her friends on a mobile (which is indeed hidden very nicely under a blanket along with the kid). Obviously, he puts that mobile on charging. This is the case of one kid. Now imagine the count of such kids around the globe and multiply with 1 (it is the minimum time I personally expect which a kid spends playing or chatting on mobiles). In addition, multiply this sum with the average power consumption of the mobile in 1 hour. Now you get a small number followed by Megawatt (Unit of power, here I am concerned with the electric power). Mathematically, this number increases with the count of various hybrids of “Angoors”.  And why should kids have all the fun! Haven’t you seen bigger “Langoors” playing with these “Angoors” all night? Yes, is the obvious answer. For the next few lines, imagine yourself to be a father or mother of a 12 yr kid, tomorrow is his birthday. The pocket-loosening question arises in your mind with the lightening speed. What object will gain the pleasure of being the birthday gift of your kid? PS-3 costing Rs. 18000,  OMG, this will leave me with a pocket attack; X-Box-12000, it would be a tantamount to a dog biting my butt, pinching pain; An I-phone or an Android, man, what a kid will do with such stuff…Yes, don’t you agree that these are the thoughts which will hamper your savings. Stop this extravagance; it will leave your kid in a timewaste-quicksand. Your kid is your property, but I will better send my kid for a picnic worth Rs. 12000 instead of buying him an “Angoor” and harbor that uncontrollable gaming experience. It will definitely entomb him on his bed with his gadget buried with him. One “Angoor” adds a whim to your household expenditure and blows a whip at your wallet.  Moreover, once your tongue receives the taste of such an “Angoor” , it’s hard to keep your hands away from the second one. It seems these “Angoors” have made a strong bond almost like an adhesive with the hands of the “Langoors”. OK, come to present now. Do not think how your future family will look like. It is an example only.

Time is to pull you out this gadget-marshland. With all these sugary glittery “Angoors” around you, do not let the vacuous “Langoor” part of you win. It is next to impossible that these “Angoors” will leave you unscathed. Might I would have been a priest then I would have let all the people to venerate the “Angoor” deity; this is what a “Langoor” would say. I will apologize if one of my very sensitive readers takes my previous sentence as a blasphemy but I must uncover candid thoughts. Better, mark it important. Alarm yourself now. Enough time has been gulped, to put you under a ramification. My above 1089 words were not a leverage and I am not your bastion. Otherwise, these “Angoors” will teeter you on the brink of self-destruction.

Wait a minute- My mobile is showing another message, I have to reply it first.

Oho, I have not updated my facebook status. Who is online now? Let me chat. Till, the software opens, let me exercise my T.V remote. How can I forget downloading that game..hmmmm…..I should better download a movie alongside.

What India needs are Shepherds

Firstly, for the sake of my satisfaction let me tell you the meaning of my last two words.Yes, look at the word beginning with “s” and ending with “d” (do not bother about its plural form).Shepherd.

Oxford defines Shepherd as a person who owns and guides a flock or a single sheep (in the worst case).What’s ‘sheep’? Sheep are those four-legged mammals that are flayed by their Shepherds to sell their fur. Recall that “mayyeeehhh mayyeeehhh” grunting sound you heard, when your two or four wheeler was obstructed by a bunch of small, goat like, furry animal. Still didn’t get it? Ok, I am giving you a hint. Look at the picture below.

                     

If any of my reader is still not getting what sheep means…take a whip or a baton and blow it heavily on your butt. To be honest, I expect all of us felt warmth on your lower half. Isn’t it? Why? Because you guessed wrong. You still do not know what a sheep is. Dear friends, Sheep is not that white furry animal which is looking at your face in the above picture. Sheep are you. Till the very past second the species sheep included me. Sheep are those animals that are born to take orders . And Shepherd is that man whom you have been following blindly. A single man guiding, oh sorry, ruling over hundreds of mentally-blind animals.  Apparently, our country has a big flock of sheep. At least few millions, I expect. Perhaps, the count will cross billions if we include the foreign countries. I may not be true, but big part of the flock comes from the private or the economic sector. Have a good percentage?, enrolled in a reputed college?, have a nice work experience?, have good communication skills? Ok, come to foreign, and we will provide you much of dollar hay. You all have seen something like this around. Isn’t it?  “Yes” is the most probable answer.  Every year, a plaster reflecting the lowest common denominator of the educated people is left with this country. It seems, in this “white rule-others serve world”, “Goras” are the Shepherds. Our country has a scarcity of such people. Every year the country produces hundreds of top class sheep passed out from some reputed institutes (You know, Shepherds have to separate sheep from the goats). Sheep who are borne to serve a Shepherd who in turn gives them wads of mouth-watering, eyes-widening green, hands-itching   currencies.

  Being invaded with my insuppressible thoughts, I hereby invite you to my “sheep to shepherd” game. Rules are simple-

(a) Isolate yourself from the flock

(b) Do not be vacuous, tinge yourself and leave green money aside

(c)Think how you can contribute to your motherland

(d)Work hard and press the accelerator.

{Being an entrepreneur is excellent, just ply your trade and help the sheep to create more and more money}

In turn, I bet you will earn two ‘not so economic things’, respect and self-satisfaction which is indeed much costlier and valuable than money according to me. Self-Satisfaction, which comes when we help others. Respect, which others give us when they see us guiding and helping our own compatriot.  KABOOOOMMM…….there comes the Shepherd in you  and here You Win The Game! Don’t you dare to giggle; I am damn serious about it. If someone feels that I am patriotic enough, I would like to tell him that Patriotism is not the word made only for a soldier dude. Serving other countries in spite of being an Indian (recall that India one of the largest economy in the world) and then masquerading your feeling of guiltiness makes no sense. The country has spent enough of its resources on us then why should we follow a stereotype idea of bagging a degree and then drilling our backs just for the green notes.  We have learnt plenty until now. It is time to make your fellow citizens make use of it. To make our people learn from us.

I know not tough, but not easy too, is shifting from “Can I” to “I can”. We have brains and we have potential. Why make their worst use serving other nations just for money? If all the educated people go abroad then I foresee that not only India will sink into a financial and economic quicksand but also the country will lose its dignity and respect. It is urgent that we must use our potential for ourselves. We do have Leaders who have a complete know-how of making optimum use of the country’s resources. We do have lacks of people bubbling with potential. Then why not make the best use of ourselves. All we need is that to make leaders understand and channelize the potential of these sheep instead of going abroad to serve others. Long ago, this BharatVarsh has proved itself one of the most powerful civilizations of the world of that era.  Now it’s our time to prove it again. India has a big flock but needs Shepherds. Hundreds of them.

It is better to shift yourself from the first pic to the pic below–

The early bird catches the worm

“All the sloths who are counting the calories which they could have saved if they would have slept a few more hours may shut down their computers and bury their tummy in the mattress”

Now, observe the picture below for ten seconds:

  

What came to your mind?-please be frank and tell me honestly….

What???? Don’t have my mail id or contact number?? Of course, you can post your answer in the comment box below this blog. The options are:-

a)Such a pretty little cute bird..Is it a Kingfisher?

b) Shit man, what slug it is holding in its mouth. Are there no bread crumbs left!!!

c) The bird’s length is around 6 inches. Its wing span is around 10 cm. The upper body is dark blue and bosom is painted with bright orange. The bird is standing over a dust bin probably made of Aluminium (Atomic number-13, Atomic weight-27, Symbol-Al). The right leg (or whatever it may be which is similar to a ‘leg’ in humans) is entangled in a kind of ring.

d) Any other reason.

Before I move next I clearly explain you what ‘Sloth’ means. (Without giving any concern to Oxford, Collin’s, and Encarta) Sloth, my dear friends are those idiots who sneak-peeked the end of my post without giving a proper vigil to the above question.

Well, have you really noticed about the time of the day during which this photo might have been taken? Of course, the simple and clear answer is ‘morning’, when the first ray of light touched the ground, this bird without waiting for others to massage their swollen eyes or resetting their alarm clock for another 5 minutes went for searching its food which is indeed the only means to its survival in this ‘Do or die’ world. The unexpected first line of the post hints the natural difference between a sloth and an early bird, a bird may(or may not ) be so ‘early’ by its age but early in snagging on an idea, a vision. Never taking naps and never feeling tired. Inspired by the bird, starting your work early not only gives you time for devising your plans properly but allows you to make hay while others are just burying the seeds in the soil. By the same coin, following the thought ‘oh,,,,,,,,I will do it later….defer it to next day…I have plenty of time left for it’  finally leaves you a big pile of ‘finish-urgently tasks’ which consequently follows ringing your friends for solutions, putting headphones in ear drums and summing all these consequences we are left with frustration. From several heads in this world, I have heard the word ‘Patience’. In my sight, it is the worst word ever made by humans. I can bet all the teachers and philosophers if they can answer my simple question “For what the heck, I should wait?” Is time going to wait for me? No. Will God gift me those seconds again to correct the wrong? No. Do I have a second chance? No. Do I have a 50-50, public poll, double answer or phone a friend lifeline with me? No. Then, ‘Wake up’, ‘arise’ and ‘impatience’ are the golden words which I will personally recommend you. People generally construe the word ‘time-waste’ as ‘Patience’. See my friends; there is a very thin, almost invisible silk thread defining the limits of both the words. Losing seconds having anticipation for the upcoming task is patience. Closing your eyes until you are hammered is what I call--time waste.

What?? Why are you smiling? You think I am a good philosopher. No my dear idiots, I am merely an observer. I observed what I did and have a hum and haw to tell you what I should have done in the past. Schools have cursed every child with at least 100 exams starting from Montessori till 12^th. Take a merit otherwise a baton or an easily available commodity-slap (Obviously, the choice amongst the last two negative words is not yours). Had I started my preparations earlier I would have scored more. Had I been quicker I would have scored more. Similar are the experiences of you all. Aren’t they? Yup, alike you, that time I listened to others. I was patient. And there I committed a sin. Being patient is being sinful. Time has taught me to be impatient. My experience has taught me to start my work at the earliest. The bird which rises with the first ray of light to catch a worm is much-much less sinful than me. So next time whenever someone calls you ‘impatient’, take it as a compliment. Think, devise a plan, start your work early, and make it quick. Bite the bullet without losing a second. And don’t ever listen a word from a person who is trying to teach you the ‘concept of patience’ (Otherwise…you already know, I don’t see any need to mention it). Do not learn these words by heart but swallow them raw. I bet people will call you ‘impatient’ today, a ‘whiz kid’ tomorrow.