Merry Rose Plant

For long I was thinking of writing a poem

Finally I am able to get this new rhythm

Humming and singing there is a rose plant in a tea estate

Unaware of how her likes live in the garden state

She is the only rose plant in that surrounding

Obviously she is everyone’s darling

She has grown beautiful with full of roses

Every other observer showered her with praises

One day she heard someone saying about her

How beautiful she would be surrounded by roses other

From then she dreamed of living in a garden

Leaving the tea estate, her pride den

Then comes a kid who falls in love with the rose plant

Plans taking her to his resident

She is plucked from the roots and is placed in a mud pot

Dreaming about the paradise(garden) she forgets all the pains she got

Landing in her dreamland she excites with joy

Watching varied colors of roses makes her cloy

Now she is just one among many

Still alone with a huge company

She is no more anyone’s darling nor received any praising

Now she is just an ordinary rose sibling

Mourning and weeping there is a rose plant not in any tea estate

Aware of how her likes live in the garden state

A Time To Fall

It was the morning of the monsoon, the sunrays were caressing the grounds, and the birds were chirping on the branches, water drops were tripping from the leaves. She was standing tall in the middle of the garden showing all her assets. A gentle breeze flew across her, making her to drizzle the drops of water from her uncovered body. Each of her assets, the red roses, was in different shapes and sizes but each had its own beauty. She was proud of her property and liked the way she was, liked the way the roses grew on her. Many rose plants dreamed to be like her one day, she was also the envy to many other rose plants. Days rolled, her beauty, the roses, started to fade. Every other rose plant shed their roses to blossom new buds. She was still holding her old property fearing to shed them, fearing if she could be the same again, fearing of loosing her beauty (which is already lost). Now she is no more dream of any of her likes or the envy of the beautiful Rose plants. She was just a rose plant holding dried roses on her head. Wary about the time to fall, fall her roses down to blossom again.

I am in the same position as that of the rose plant, carrying the burden of my past success and failures, which need to be shed down to blossom new victories. I think living the life of the caterpillar for so long I am reluctant to turn into a butterfly. Unaware of the life of the butterfly or my future I am trying to live in my cocoon, the cocoon of comfort, and depression. I need to get out of this cocoon, need to face the situation and start living the life of the butterfly or whatever it may be.

I hate me

I hate me, not for the things I have done but for the things I haven’t done. When was the last time I did some meaningful work or did a concrete job? I don’t remember, I need to think. While I search for the answer, read this story of I and me.

I and me are two friends working in the same organization. Me, the friend of I, is calm, gentle and always carries a friendly smile on his face. On the other hand his friend I is arrogant, careless and always in a depressed mood. Me though successful never carried the burden of his failures or success on his shoulders. He is focused only on his job and cares to deliver his best shot to the job, independent of what the job is. While I , whose never been successful in the recent past though had some achievements in the prehistoric period, still carries the glory of his ancient past and doesn’t care for his present job, thinking that it is a menial job for his standards. - I am still thinking about the answer. –

I thinking that he can be an instant hit at any time when he wishes, never cared about his career, soon he is noted as an worthless candidate in the organization. Me working hard for the assigned job, basking on his success soon finds himself in commendable position in the company. I staying under the false impression of his capabilities ends up as a loser boasting about his past success stories. And Me by his constant hard work raises to a better position both in his life and carrier.-

I still can not find an answer.

I hate me, not for the things I have done but for the things I haven’t done. I hate me for not stopping Me, my glorious past, from turning to I, my present. I hate me for what I haven’t done to Me . I hate me for what I haven’t done to I.

Why MBA

"Why MBA" this was the question asked me in the IIM application form and this is the question I keep on asking myself ever since I screwed up IIM GD and interview. The first time when the question was posed, my obvious answer was money but I managed to write something else in the form, the regular blab (it acts as my career launch pad, widens my scope of understanding….). Now if I ask myself, was that for money? I can’t say it in the same old firm voice. Will I not be able to earn a good pay after two years, if I continue in my current job or switch to a better paying company or fly US? To be honest it is not that hard. Then why MBA? I think again. MBA from IIM’s add a good value to your profile that’s the answer I gave in the interview and also to many others. So is it the answer, I think again. What do I do with my profile, when is my profile going to speak? The answer is simple when I apply for a job or start a business. Why would I apply for a job or start a business? The answer is simple again MONEY. Soooo I don’t need to do an MBA? I think again and again and again. As many said earlier and keep on saying to me you can’t end up as an undergraduate, you need to at least finish your master’s degree. Then again why MBA? I can go for MS or do MBA from some not so famous college for the sake of finishing my master’s degree. And before that why can’t I be an undergraduate? Why should I do my master’s? Being an undergraduate or not being a graduate is in no way going to affect my job, then why? I am puzzled and I think again. The question is still unanswered “Why MBA???” Soon I need to find a solution for a good night sleep.