MAN Proposes... GOD disposes... My Lifeline as it was.....
- 16 years: Wanted to get into IIT.. Studied very Hard.. Gave up Table Tennis, gave up everything..
- Got into MREC Jaipur & Indian Navy
- 18 years: Chose Indian Navy and wanted to be an Electrical and Electronics Engineer
- Got selected and nominated by Naval Headquarters into Mechanical engineering
- 28 years: Wanted to do a PhD in active noise cancellation after topping my Masters
- Got pushed into a Training Billet, submarine and into design later
- 38 years: Wanted to sail as a commander on a capital ship
- Was dry-listed (shore billets only) and posted as OIC of Submarine Design cell in MDL
- 39 years: Wanted to redefine the entire design directorate for futuristic design
- Was wet-blanketed to just do things within the framework
- 41 years: Wanted to do something in Agriculture and education after leaving Navy
- Got into a Shipyard as a GM Design at Goa
- 42 years: Wanted to learn more about corporate world
- Learnt more about running marathons and Ultramarathons and made great friends and name all across the country
- 43 years: Wanted to teach and help students aspire for large Goals
- Got into Career Mentoring for students and professionals and developed good reputation as an Entrepreneur, Master trainer of Mentors and a Career Mentor. Developed knowledge of psychometrics, positive psychology and BhagwadGita and Upanishads for application in my role as a mentor.
FINALLY.. GOD SEEMS TO HAVE ALIGNED ME TOWARDS A RELATED AREA
Agriculture is still a distant dream.. I have no experience but believe that it is a life skill that everyone should develop.. to learn to grow vegetables and fruits and flowers.. Because it is a basic need that has to be fulfilled lifelong and if you can grow some basic stuff.. You can be independent of vendors..or at-least create a self sustaining system for subsistence.
I believe in complete FREEDOM , no dependence on anyone for basic needs. Each human being should be capable of sustaining themselves to the best possible manner with minimum dependence on an external agency/ vendor/ shop..
COVID-19 is forcibly teaching this lesson to mankind. But are people learning anything or still caught up in their normal delusion?
- 48 years: Want to leave the Urban Premises and shift to a natural habitat to discover and learn more about SELF( Research on Upanishads and Gita and discover the True Self) & continue working with youth and helping them aspire to be inspirational individuals in their career.
- Waiting to see where I go next... ???
Life is UNPREDICTABLE as if you are a puppet with strings in someone's hands and YES, you do make choices but not necessarily what you would have planned for yourself.. So it is a volatile, uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) future there for all of us..
But surely, I enjoyed every bit of my life journey above in every role. I made the most of it personally and professionally. Looking back, there is NO repentance, just memories and friends who came along on the path and have become acquaintances now but whenever we meet, there are amazing stories to share. Life is a "Story-Book" with many stories and at the end of it, one must enjoy reading each of these stories.
Man Proposes... God Disposes.................My life line as it is....
