Like every time I am going to start writing with a song …..
I know you are hooked to the song and so am I, so I won’t mind if you want to listen to it again before further reading.
I will give you a little bit more information about my surrounding while I am writing this, It is around middle of march and hence a hot sunny lazy afternoon. I am sitting on a wooden chair and listen songs on loop and thinking of the incidents of last few months.
So yes , we will start from mid of December. I went to Puri, with my family in a much needed vacation after taking CAT and if you have not read that journey .. here you go (https://gangulysayann.wixsite.com/fumblewhilefinding/post/goal-digger-where-magic-happens).
Sorry , for digressing , my performance in the exam was okayish. One day while I was chilling on the beach and faking candid like pros , Ankan called ,“Bhai GDPI ka kya karna hai ….”. I did not even bothered, replied “Bhai pata nahi .. kuch dekh lenge ..”, holiday vibes .
--------- (trying to look back ... and say hello !!!)
Two days later … Ankan called again “Bhai ek institute ka pata chala hai, join krna hai ?”. I said “krlete hai bhai .” Had my induction session while I was travelling back on the train. Then the different sessions of the course started. There were sessions from news analysis to discussions on current topics and believe me people there were smart and 10 times smarter than me .
CAT results came out and this time I cleared all cut-offs and scored decent enough to get a couple of IIM calls and hence start preparaing for the GDPI process.
I started to interact with a few members from the course and I was like I do not even stand a chance with them. Then what, I started to eat FOMO, sleep FOMO, Repeat FOMO .my life was “FOMO – BOHOT FOMO -- BOHOT ZYADA FOMO”.
I tried my best to keep myself sane through those days cause anyway I was lagging behind .. and with talking with few of my friends I understood one thing I need to make friendship with FOMO and I received incredible amount of support from them. Then there were multiple WhatsApp group and people there really helped me to wrap things around my head. From notes to links of newspaper articles to song covers all helped me to keep me moving.
Then there was the phase of studying .. which I am bad at … :( .
Then , there was planning and giving up was never an option … “bhai hai toh fighter .. lol ”. Juggling between multiple topics from form-filing, electronics revision to read up the newspaper, I understood one thing .. Your incapabilities are all in your mind.
Then what … Process is the word and I am grateful to everyone in the course who helped me immensely. The WhatsApp group was a life savior for me.
Few more interviews are left and I am just crossing my fingers so that things turn out great for everyone. I do not know what will happen , maybe I do not convert a single call , but the friends I made , the version of myself I found , the stories I heard , the small smiles and the effort we did for each other’s performance , I am not trading that with anything .
-----------------Till we meet again …. Dua o me Yaad Rakhna -------------------------
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