A scene

" ...'What is a drug ?' He remembers his teacher asking in the morning s class. He ponders for a moment and rephrases it : 'what not is a drug ?' Some ideas flashed through ... " Vikas stopped reading and checked his watch. The hands conveyed its 10. He couldn't stop thinking about her. Right from the moment when their eyes met in the class. It's been three days they were meeting and talking in free hours and lunch breaks. Now , he's obsessed with her. He was seeing her everywhere. Hearing her name everywhere. Thus despite being an atheist he started to believe in karmic connect. He got up , took his Lee pullover and started walking towards her house. He knew it way before , his curiosity made him found out. Though he's not a stalker. While doing all this , he seemed delirious. Started climbing pillars and then into her bedroom balcony. He slowly scrutinized the surrounding s. Thanks to the street light he found his leg wrapped in branches of the money plant. Recovering from it , he walked in. Going across her bed , he looked at the half opened novel , the same novel !which he was reading. His face wore a light smile. He sets the blanket right covering her feet which made her snuggle a bit. It Frightened Vikas and precipitated him for a moment. But she appeared to be in good sleep already. He lifts her palm takes the book out and places it on the shelf. For a moment he was lost looking at her. Now he understood. She was his drug. He started to leave and turned , right at that moment he felt his hand gripped. "I ve something to say" she whispers. And he felt something was being tied on his wrist. He whispers back " I know"... He turns only to find her with smile and then his heart started sink and with those words... " Happy Rakhi , Bhayya!!! " he fell down unconscious.....

The End

Passion check?

It's easy to go around saying, I am passionate about that or this. But I think with time everything changes. I entered a field know as Value Investing. It is a school of like thinkers about stock market investing. Mostly I got to know because I wanted to become rich. And too soon. I say to myself and others that I am passionate about value investing. Sometimes, I question myself about that. Recently I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Dheeraj, whom I met at Badminton club here at Shaik Pet.

That time some how while talking we discussed about his camera, Sony, I don't know the model. I asked him "Did you buy that?", he said yes and simultaenously said "See, it is easy to claim that we are passionate about some things, like say photography. But in my view, first that person should take more than 10,000 pictures and if that person still feels the same way towards photography, then he's passionate.

So, I reflected there and then for a moment. Because you can find wisdom everywhere and you just need to grab and reflect on it. I found one right then.

If I am passionate about investing, then first I should start researching about at least 100 companies. Then I can know about what's what. 

Image

Till yesterday I blamed my parents for expecting things from me entirely through their point of view. They wished I had done an IT job just like the others did. They talked to others as if I have failed by choosing finance as my career. I blamed for not being satisfied with my brother's salary and his decisions. I even advocated my opinions with others in a way that parents should not force and all.

But now I think I was wrong. They didn't think of me as a strong man so that they could have told others that their son would succeed in the thing he likes to do. They didn't think like that because I did not project the image of that sort of a guy. It's that simple. They didn't act on their own. They acted after thinking through the image which I have shown.

Now that I understand Varun s words. Nobody cares about what you think. It's the image which you project that's important. And the quote from my favorite movie ," batman begins", ' It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you'.

So true. Always I should think what image others are getting.