By Harsh Joshi
There are countless magazines, journals, blogs where you’ll find an article on how great people find opportunities out of none that exist. They fashion them out of thin air, from the constituents of day to day life they create something magnificent; a notion, an idea that goes beyond simply you and me to a much larger audience. I don’t think that ideas have to be like the tsunami -- overwhelming and all powerful; but they are much like a friendly push, a small nudge that helps transform an individual to become or do something more, something higher than already achieved.
I have long wondered; in futility I might add, to understand
how this magic is worked. To understand
the way in which a person could look at all the small things life offers and take
them and use them and convert them to biblical proportions (Extravagant? Yes,
perhaps). Truth is, I still don’t know how to do that, but it doesn’t hurt to
try does it? Actually, this article itself is such a task, not that I am
projecting my own greatness, but this article comes not from any idea or
inspiration that I had, for everyone (as I am right now undergoing) goes through
a phase where nothing makes sense, there is nothing of worth that needs to be
said, and there are no things that are worth the while. This article is an
endeavour to allow me to try and write from day to day life.
When I came to Vidyasagar for the 3rd Annual VOSA
Meet, I asked Rachna Ma’am to try and get the school administration to allow
the articles written by ex-students to be included in the school magazine and
that came about in this year’s edition. Now the problem was this, by the end of
January, I had no idea what I wanted to write and what message I intended to
convey. Even till today as I write this piece, on the 27th of
February little did I know which direction this was going to take. But as I sit
here and write, I realize, not everything has to have a point, and so this
article doesn’t have a point. I do promise that in this article you’ll not find
a single piece of useful information, no good advice, nor any direction
whatsoever.
Then again, what about the beginning? What about the talk of
finding great ideas and inspiration? And what about success and the great
people who find opportunities out of none that exist? That is something that
you yourselves will have to ponder upon on your own. You see, this is my great
idea, maybe not an original one, but still great; that doing something for
furthering a goal and propagating an idea is one thing and is laudable but what
is more important in your life and mine and in everybody else’s is to enjoy
what you do and to do what you enjoy -- both in harmony. By the way, I have just stolen one of my
mother’s evergreen sayings (Don’t tell her, okay?)
Ideas won’t come knocking on your door, they won’t say “Howdy,
partner!”, they will most definitely not awaken you in the middle of the night
and zap you with Herculean energy for you to move the world as it were. And so all a person can hope for during their
pursuit of ideas that they need, is that an idea comes to their mind not because
of luck or “Divine Intervention”(Any gamers will get the reference), but by the
application of their thought to produce ideas that are great.
