India:Opportunities within

There comes a point in everyone's life when one tends to imagine one's life after a span of say 5 or more years and imagine what sort of a life one would be leading. At that point of time one tends to look for those small leads that would ultimately fulfil one's desired idea of having a perfect life.

I've reached that particular point now where i have been literally forced to imagine how i would like to see my life bloom into in the years ahead. I've started to brood over all those opportunities I've missed out in the past and I've tried to console myself on the 'n' number of opportunities i might be blessed with in the near future.

So, i go about sharing my thoughts with my friends and getting to know their take on my point of view and some of them disagree on the 'n number of opportunities' part. I would have actually been satisfied with their take until recently when i got a chance to meet this Entrepreneur who had come to my college to deliver a lecture.

This was part of the E-Week being celebrated in my college and he was there on the launch of the E-Cell's website.so we were listening to his words of inspiration and we just happened to be there by chance. chance was when one professor walked into our class during a very very irritating lecture and i happened to be the second guy to raise a hand when asked for a volunteer to attend the programme by the E-Cell.

My purpose of mentioning this person is because he made me realize something many of us are too focused to miss out on! something many of us would not even think of due to a few lame reasons that we convince ourselves with!

The very reason he was there that day was because he chose to become an Entrepreneur , an option that many would not even dare to think of and he was there doing just what he had to do, break that jinx! Almost everyone has this phobia about doing something on our own as if its something that's forbidden, something 'not to be named'. His speech was mainly focused on how one should think beyond getting a mediocre job in some IT company and depending on the various incentives that one gets and imagining to earn even more in the future and finally labelling oneself as 'settled'. Is that really the way one would tag being 'settled' as?

Maybe it was the way i would have tagged 'being settled' as until that particular day.That day, he gave us the hope of 'creating opportunities' for oneself and building on those opportunities. Especially in a country like India with its overwhelming and ever growing population there is never a shortage of customers.This was the basic idea he gave us that is probably the answer to all the current global economic crisis.Hence the need and scope of entrepreneurship is ever growing.

I was at doubt if i could even think of venturing out as an entrepreneur and so i put forth a question and nevertheless i was clear at the end due to his proper justification.If there was one prime thing he made me understand that day then it would be to 'believe in myself' and many a times i forget to do that, i forget to motivate myself, i tend to succumb even before taking part in anything! That was something i have to overcome and his words were the proper start i needed.

Thus the key lies in 'creating opportunities' rather than 'searching for opportunities' and if one starts thinking the 'entrepreneur way' then there's no looking back!