India: Opportunities within -part2!

So i met my cousin the other day and he was telling me about this job interview he recently went through. He actually made it till the final round of a reputed company's interview but couldn't get the job so when i asked why he couldn't make it, he told me this is what happened

• The questions they asked him in the final round were too simple so he decided not to answer them
• He chose to be stubborn and replied saying -'i dont know'
• he also answered saying- i dont remember, i had it in my mind sometime ago but now i dont seem to remember
• they also told him that he would have the privilege to do his MS at the BITS Pilani yet he continued to maintain his 'i dont care' attitude

so thats how he got rejected and when i asked him why he did it, he said- ' i was not interested'

His friends on the other hand who failed to even make it through to the final round were so very mad at him that they would not even listen to his take on why he behaved that way!

Just like his friends i too was really furious at his reply and i was like 'OK so what are you interested in? what are you gonna do now?' then he said wanted to do MBA and he's already into preparing for those exams and all.

The manner in which he told he was going to do MBA was in itself so convincing that i was now glad that he wanted to do something he was interested in, something he really wanted to do. My fury was now subsiding and his justification though not totally right was at least meaningful in some way. This made me wonder how many of us do something because we don't get to do what we want to.

Many a times we are left with no option than to do something just for the sake of it rather than searching or waiting for something we really want to do but at that point of time if we really decide to do what we really want to then i guess there is no second choice to make!

Its quite a plight to know many of us doing something just for the sake of doing something or due to peer pressure.

The key i feel is to 'believe in oneself' especially when one is left with the faintest of hope.

I remember my Vice Principal telling us this story about Sir Winston Churchill after the war where he was invited to deliver a speech at a School to boost the morale of the students and this is what his speech was like "Never,ever,ever, ever, ever,ever,ever give in.Never give in.Never give in.Never give in." After saying this he sat down. So my point is one has to believe in oneself and one has to really figure out what one is most interested in and pursue that till the end! Opportunities will then just follow or rather form at every step one takes!