Journey of Infosys

The journey is over
Will miss the days which were dear
People who are very near

I spent sleepless nights and day dreaming
Used to say “Mysore, you will see me coming”
Mysore was Heaven on Earth
Lucky I was to get a berth

Days were very busy in training
Used to spend whole day Zzzzzzzz-ing
A new life was taking a perfect shape
With all new frens and a wonderful place

Fun was Counter-Strike
Used to play day and night
Life-Savior was “Gazebo”
Everytime I used to go

Then there were tests and compre
Used to feel dead like dead sea
Coz all Qs used to look like tag “Marquee”
To which all my CS frens used to agree

As winter came things began to change
Friends used to say “Now-a-days you act strange”
For I had found (Special) someone
She was like winter day with a bright Sun

Days kept flowing like a silent river
End of training was very near
I could see eyes full of tears
With heavy heart I used to say “Cheers!”

Finally the sad-day arrived to say final depart
Coz a new life was about to start

I saw all together new place and faces
With many new open races
I got a project of testing
That used to leave me sometimes complaining

Then there was WFP, Firewall and NAP
I used to feel I was falling in a big trap
But Still I loved to work here
Coz I had many new frens to cheer

2 years have flown by but the memories remain
some faces and names will always stay the same.

When I will look back, I will cry
But it’s time to say final good-bye

Am I a Failure?

There are times in a person's life when whole world seems to go against him, nothing goes according to the plan, all people turn their backs and it seems like all the energy, zeal and confidence is lost and the person looks down and asks the obvious - Am I a Failure?

Every part and aspect of life has been coined in pairs like Good/Bad, Action/Reaction, Happiness/Sorrow, etc. But as a normal behavior humans always tend to overlook the murkier part of the coin and always find themselves engaged in the brighter side of the coin. But still life is full of all colors with different shades to it. That’s the reason there are sometimes success in life and sometimes failures. Now, the only question that came to my mind while thinking on this was – Why Do we fail? The instant and obvious Questions that would tend to answer this Question would be - Is it the lack of efforts that pulls us down? Is it someone else being better than us? Is it things that didn’t go the way we wanted them to? It’s like a whole new book that can be written on the causes of failures. But when I carefully thought on the granular level I got a very different and quite strange answer – “Fear of Failure”.

I thought very hard on this and found some contemporary facts, which every single individual on this earth would have sometime or the other in his life wanted to think of.

Most of the times we fail in our life not because of the fact that we didn’t put our 100% efforts or someone was better than us, but mostly due to the reason that we feared failing. Just think of one of your failures and think what if someone would have come to you and would have said “You are free to fail” I bet the outcome would have been different. I am sure that if any time in our life when we had a tough time and if someone would have said, “You are free to do whatever you want and do not fear the result” we would have done wonders. Ofcourse we could have failed there also, but we would have played the match with the confidence we never had earlier. There is a very strong bond between “Being Yourself” and “Fear of failure”. If anytime in your life you dint fear failure, then that was the time when you were completely yourself. That was the time when you had stopped thinking of the outcomes and failures and you were in the arena with the only motive of being yourself and getting to the best of it.

I realized that the greatest treasure of life lies with Failure rather than with Success. It is – A chance to do better, A chance to be what you wanted to be, A Chance to go back and make things right. I realized that failure is just a word unless we attach positive/negative to it. The moment we start thinking failure as a negative aspect we stop thinking beyond failure. But when we are ready to look beyond the failure and treat failure as another chance, we start making our life better. We start thinking of innovation and we start to think what we never would have thought.

I guess, if somewhere in anyone’s life people would think the way I am able to, they would always be able to answer the Question – Am I a Failure? I guess the people would be able to answer the question with a positive reply.