There are many embarrassing situations which everyone goes through several times in their life span...some of these memoirs are lost forever...while some of these are retained in our grey cells...
And when you are alone...walking on the road...or taking a photocopy...or while sipping that warm cuppa coffee...and it pops up in your head...making you feel silly...at times you feel if at all i could change that...occasionally you might feel like kicking yourself...
But the worst and awkward part of these memories is the dumb smile it gets on your face...have you ever noticed a guy walking on the road smiling to himself and nodding his head and what you thought about him???...well...you are now there doing the same thing...smiling and nodding your head...thinking what a fool you were...if at all you could change that...however, all you do is sport a silly smile or an occasional laugh and try to forget it...
Now lets just analyze one such embarrassing moment... you are the stud of your school and junior college...you know the one who has a big ASS - Attention Seeking Syndrome...teachers pet...the guy who can talk with any girl he wants...and he actually gets a response back!!!
Suppose you are all this...and now you are suddenly thrown in a place which is totally unfamiliar... You are in an engineering college...which is a suburban college...with chicks and dudes all around you...of course you are dressed which if seen in your locality would attract a comment "dressed to kill :o)"...
But not here...here you feel out of place...you do some amateur research and come to a conclusion "let me try to get a position of Class Representative (CR) - a fast road to class-stardom" and so you go ahead and do it...obviously there are better people in the class...and you end up being a standing joke :o(
Well at least you are famous in the "in" way...you are infamous for your height of inanity...the class knows you now...but at the cost of your reputation!!! A real side effect of displaying your big ASS!!!
So what went wrong here??? After all these years when i think about this incident (Ya ya...I was the guy who got a standing ovation for being so foolhardy) with that silly smile and the head nod, I try to figure it out...what actually went wrong...
For starters...i had no preparations whatsoever...i had no idea about the responsibilities of a CR and worst of all i was not the kind of guy who would go on a stage and speak without preparations...it does makes me want to kick the hell out of me!!!
But i have learnt a lot from this particular incident...i have reduced my ASS...i do a thorough, meticulous research before diving into an unknown zone...i prepare myself for the role or the responsibility...and i take care to know what are my roles or responsibilities!!!
All said and done...will i want to change this or any other embarrassing moments??? Will you guys want to change these moments???
Take a minute and think about it...
Well of course i would...wont you??? But then i won’t learn what i have learnt so far!!! And might do the same thing in the future at a more prestigious place than a CR???
What say??? Want the change???
just 1 question?
ReplyDeletehave i read this before?????
@neha...ofcourse u have read this before...i always liked this article when i wrote it long back in our ever-free time...thought might as well start the new blog with the same blog :oD
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