You cannot get Everything you want in life

                                             

Life has been meaning to teach this lesson to me for quite some time now.  It started with the JEE Advanced paper. Even at the end of the first paper, I knew that my hopes and expectations of going to IIT Bombay had evaporated, leaving behind just dry and crumbling despair. Nevertheless, I managed to write the second paper satisfactorily. Dropping out was not an option. I just had to come to terms with whatever result I got.

 It was difficult, but I numbed myself to all topics related to JEE and managed to manoeuvre myself through the "dark times". That too, without actually learning the above-mentioned lesson. Surely, it must be a glitch on God's side, I thought. Maybe I hadn't tried that hard. This won't happen the next time if I try harder. This attitude of mine got even a more solid ground to stand on, when I performed excellently in the BITSAT.

Unfortunately, Life hadn't given up yet. It was determined to teach me this lesson, no matter how much I tried to blind myself to it. The pessimist inside me tried to compare Roorkee with Bombay. The optimist burnt it to the ground, though only temporarily. Then came the Aditya Birla Scholarship. Excited, full of hope and confidence, five of us from Roorkee went to Bombay for the interviews. As you might have guessed from the context, I didn't get through. This was Life's second strike at my perception that the entire world would part and make way for me if I just tried hard enough. The third, and I feel that many of you will agree with me on that one, was the MTE results.

Now, after facing such disappointments, I have begun to acknowledge the fact that you cannot get everything you want in life. 

Even so, the optimist inside me is still standing. To not expect anything in life is a sin too, one that I am not willing to commit. If you don't try, then scratch everything, you won't even get anything.

Hence in my life, I have decided to expect, try my best, have faith but move on. I now live by the motto:

                               Though you can't get everything in life,

                                     Give Life everything in You!