Sunday 18 May 2008

Monday morning Inspiration # 30


It is the season of placements in universities in this part of the world. After a lot of hardships and struggle through the course it is always common to find emotional highs and lows during times like these.Cheer up friends , here is a story for you . I came across this when i was browsing for some inspirational stuff . It is written by Shuchi Gupta.

And for others it is yet another motivational story with a message To believe in your dreams and go behind them, no matter what.


I hope this story encourages you in times when your dreams seem far away, or, when you are not able to believe any words of encouragement deep in your heart.

I was doing a diploma course. When the course ended, placements started. The first company came and I was not selected. My roommate got selected though. I felt good for her, but miserable myself because I started thinking that I'm not worth anything good. I'm worthless. My room mate had not come in until dark and I was feeling so miserable that I did not even want to enter the room we shared because I had memories of both of us studying in it all through the course. I felt so miserable that I found myself crying standing on the road talking to one of my classmates, unable to control my tears. When my roommate came, she consoled me, said all the words to encourage me, pointed out the mistakes I had made in the interview so that I would do better the next day. She made me gather strength for the next set of companies that were scheduled to come the next day.

She went to bed, saying that I should wake her up if I wanted to know something about the topics we had to study for the interview. After she went to sleep, I started saying to myself half-heartedly, "Tomorrow is MY day. The company cannot go without selecting me. I will get myself selected tomorrow." I did not feel this from deep inside but I kept on saying this the whole night, probably in my sleep too, and in the morning until I faced my interview. It went ok, not too good. Still I kept on saying these one-liners to myself but now there was a difference. I found a little belief started growing that "It actually IS my day" and now it was not half-heartedly that I said all that, I started to believe it. I was so charged up by this time by my growing belief that I found myself totally at ease and confident of selection that I found myself singing with my class-mates while people were going through the interview in their respective turns.

I went through the last stage of selection, which went quite well. In the evening when the results were announced I was not selected. I went home thinking that something is wrong, this was not possible. I was not in the mood to read the topics for the interview next day with some other company.

Morning came and I sat for another written exam for the first company, still thinking about what had happened yesterday. Before sitting for the exam, I was crying when one of my classmates tried to console me that I should not worry, everything will be fine. They gave the exam and it went bad.

I came out of the room and one student told me that our head of the placements was searching for me. I went to his cabin and he congratulated me saying, "You have been selected by the company that came yesterday". I couldn't believe it. I found myself saying, "I knew this had to happen". My heart said to me, "See! I told you, you could do it. Just believe in yourself!"

My belief eventually had made me achieve what I was wishing for. Then at that point I remembered that I had an intuition that I would get selected by this company when they had come to give their pre-placement talks.

So if you have a dream then just believe that you can achieve it no matter what. Even when you can't feel deep in your heart any words of encouragement, just believe in your dream and your heart will finally show you the way. And believe that there is God who sees us every moment. Believe in intuitions and gut feelings for they are voices of your sub-conscious mind.

To read other Monday morning Inspirations click here

P.S: The movie Ice princess has the same theme as well " Believe in yourself, and achieve your dreams no matter what". Catch up with the movie when your feeling low and Im sure it will boost up your confidence.

9 comments:

puvanan said...

Thoughts are very powerful and when you keep on thinking the same one, again and again, it turn out to be your belief. And, what we believe is what we get.

That's the reason we gotta take care of our thoughts and watch the way we think. Words are secondary.. but thought are extremely powerful, they travel very far around.

Nice piece of sharing :)

Lena said...

Thoughts really possess some power and if we believe in something we can achieve it.

PS: i love the movie as well as the main song.. is even set up as ringtone for my cell phone :)

Shalini Gowrisankar said...

@Puvanan

Absolutely! Thanks for that wonderful comment, thats why I guess we should never let negative thoughts prevail.

@Lena

Wow.. nice to know its one of your favourite movies too :)

Cяystal said...

Hi Shalini,
This one's a great piece :)

I really liked yr blog :D

*Cheers*

Aayushi

(hope to see you at my blog soon!)

Shalini Gowrisankar said...

@Aayushi

Thanks for dropping by my blog.Glad to know you liked it :)

Will drop by ur blog soon :)

Jeevan said...

Like Kalam said one should keep tell themselves I can do, I can do… Thanks for sharing.

Shalini Gowrisankar said...

@Jeevan

Absolutely! Its my pleasue :)

Vasanthan said...

this was the advice i gave my ex-house mate. we both stayed in the same house in Australia and got the same degree, but with different major.all our other friends had already gotten a job, but he haven't. i told him not to lose hope and also another point.

This is your first job, your first professional job, don't just join a company for the money, do what you want as you like it to be. when you have passion for the job, everything else will fall into place and you can pass the interview easily.
ps: my friend just messaged me yesterday that he got his dream job! congrats to him and

Shalini Gowrisankar said...

@Vasanthan

That's great! Congrats to your friends and hats off to you for supporting him during his lows in life.. :)