Here is my 1st toastmaster's assignment - P1. The ice breaker session.
Good afternoon fellow toastmasters.
For all the north Indians setting here ... If
you want to call someone mardasi here I am .. a true south indian ..
I can claim that I belong to 4 states in south India. A native of andhar
pradesh Born in Mysore , brought up in chennai and graduated from Pondicherry.
. And this is the only thing I am probably proud about myself in my whole
life. And intend to marry a keralite so that I can set my foot on Kerala also
I was this
guy in school who never raised his hand to ask a question. But i was a Radio Jockey in
my college.
I was this guy in school who had always scored
more than 80% , but had 3 backlogs in my
graduation and each subject I had to write thrice.
I was in such a school where the boys to
girls ratio was 1:2 , but in my college I was in such a privileged department
where its as hard to find gal , like looking for an oasis in sahara
desert.
I am this guy who still finds its hard to talk
to a gal.. Ok only beautiful girl. But still a beautiful gal proposed me. Sadly
she is married and I am still single.
one day, as an engineer , what i did was i drew a graph of my own life and which looked like this. The same graph which you can see when you watch NDTV profit or economic times.
We will come back to this later.
when someone asks me what you want to do in
life I don't have an answer .bcoz . I am confused. I find everything
interesting. Sometimes I find this good and the other thing also good.
A fulfilling
life consists of three parts , asking the right questions, the quest for the
answers and the answer itself. I am still searching for my question.
In this
process of figuring out what to do , I luckily got selected for Jagriti Yatra.
Its a 15 day train journey across India . Where you meet roles models in
12 destinations travelling 8000kms. With 450 people. Al in a single train. I thought this is it what I needed at this
point of my life. Probably figure out my
right question and I will figure out what to do my life .
There on the first day , our group , a group of 25 people ,
we were asked to do this life line exercise. Nothing but the same graph I had
showed you , just a fancy name . And to
our surprise all the graphs looked the same.
What I learnt from this graph is that... one can never settle down in life. And parents always want you to settle down. And that will never happen. You have to keep running all your life and I am not scaring you by saying it. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around for a while, you could miss it.
Though the
yatra has been an amazing experience. Many life lessons learned. Now what ? Definitely a life changing journey for me. Now
I see life a lot differently than before .
Its been
three months now after the yatra. And nothing has really changed. Except one thing .. That now "I am
confidently confused".
