Have you ever felt so good after doing something that you wished you could do it again? Or maybe you were compelled to do something and then it got you hooked? Now you can’t get away from it.

He was still crying and he couldn’t figure out how he met it. Was it fate? or did he take the wrong path which led to Failure’s house? He was utterly confused. ‘You are nothing! You did not do it right! Now the feelings of the dejection and regret will follow and haunt you,’ Failure said with a proud voice. This made him feel a bit more submissive to it. They both sat in a gloomy room with just a window on one wall which was covered with a black curtain. Sometimes the wind blew the curtain aside letting some light enter for a second before engulfing the room in darkness again. Failure lived with a family of Guilt, Regret, and Grief which added to the negative vibe in the house. This made the house uncomfortable in addition to the fact that it really smelled like cadaverine.

“When I was taking all the right steps then how did I end up here? I wasn’t supposed to reach this haunted house, I did not deserve it! He said. Failure made itself comfortable in its chair. It looked scary and people never wanted to meet him. He was always hated and looked upon with disgust, even the person in his company was also called by his name. But he was a wise fellow after all. He knew things about people’s life which no one else could think of, he knew the last bit of each and every person who came to meet him. The thing which made it sad was it was not able to spread its knowledge and tell people what it knew about them. Only a few were courageous enough to look at it and those who questioned were even less.

He was looking away but Failure was still staring at him. Gathering an iota of courage he enquired ‘who are the ones fortunate enough to meet you, friend?’. Failure was jovial now. By now it had started to like a middle age man who was wise and had the energy to talk.

Failure told him, ‘I have met many people in the past eternity and people, generally, would go mute. You, my friend‘ he continued, ‘have the audacity to question my nature which apparently is your reality.’ ‘There are basically two types of people who I generally meet. The first category – are the ones who love what they are doing, but they are not putting enough effort to excel. Second – are the ones who work hard, but do not love what they are doing! The beauty of this house is that no-one can see it until one actually enters one. Quite a surprise! right?’ The more he was understanding what Failure had to say the younger it looked.

‘I welcome them warmly like a guest, in my house, for a few days hoping that someday that person might ask me about the right path to his destination. The least one can do is to ask the reason for such hospitality! Is that too much I’m expecting of mortals? I just want people to get acquainted with me and moreover use my knowledge to know themselves, but’, it paused, ‘they don’t seem to care.’ He was listening quietly, only to notice that the house began to feel comfortable.

On enquiring about the peculiar state of that house, Failure said, ‘this house is painted with depression, therefore it appears black. People get trapped in this house and loose their sanity looking at those charcoal walls. Many of them killed their desires and for the worse part, some even killed themselves. There goes the reason for the rotten smell. The window…’ He interrupted Failure in between and said, ‘teach me please!’

Failure, like an impatient adolescent, started right away, ‘ when you started your journey you had that eagerness of a novice which helped you to take big leaps. Halfway through your journey, you started feeling disillusioned and feelings of anger, frustration and envy flourished. You started to believe in other person’s opinion of your situation, their dogma, as your reality and felt lost. You started seeking opportunities to make yourself comfortable in an illusion to make yourself confident. That was when you needed to listen to your heart. Cheer up! you’re in a place where you can find yourself again and analyse your actions like you had never before.’

He was listening to all this with his eyes shut but could clearly visualise what it had to say. He opened his eyes to see a small child in front of him. It was the same Failure which looked humongous when he feared it! He embraced that child and asked for a way out. The innocent child unveiled the window allowing the golden light to enter that room. Before leaving he asked one last question: ‘will we ever meet again?’. The child replied, ‘I have many houses, I don’t know how soon you may run into one. But now that you know me, don’t forget me, please! I will be happy to teach you more if we meet again, but you will have to accept me and ask for it! After all, you are stronger now!’

He was satisfied and left through the window, into the light which would guide him to his success, truly his own…

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This week I tried a solo episode for the podcast. It is about humour- the happy and sad side of it. We must learn to laugh it out!

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Welcome! This is The Thinker’s Podcast. It is a weekly podcast which I do sometimes solo and sometimes with a guest.

This week I had with myself Ujjwal Gupta and we talked about opportunities and how they define our lives. We shared some life experiences we had in our 18 years of life.

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‘I don’t believe we have met before!’ he said and she was astonished!

‘I know you keep forgetting things, but remember we met last Saturday in the subway’ she said, ‘I asked you to buy me a ticket, don’t you remember anything?.’ He was stressing hard on his memory trying to recollect and then suddenly he said ‘yeah I remember!’ The girl’s laugh was like spring in the last of December. ‘I think, I remember something now. It’s fuzzy though, so don’t ask me questions about that day!’ he said with a confused look on his face. ‘Yes I will try not to!’ she chuckled.

From impossible to possible. Recently I had been reading a book and, a line from the book said “You got a dream, and you got to protect it! Nobody should tell you that you can’t do it, not even me!”

Making possible from impossible is just two steps away and believe you me, if you have started your journey; you have come one step closer reaching the destination and only one is lest!. Now, in this uncertain and deceitful world a question hangs in everybody’s mind – is hard work rewarded? Well I would answer “possibly” or “probably” but I would add “continued hard work” is Yes! Definitely rewarded.

You just have to start where you are. You can have an attitude like—“I am kind of person who if he does not knows the answer would tell you that ‘I don’t know it’ but I am the person who is certain of finding the answer”. Sometimes people who others think cannot do ANYTHING sometimes do things which people can’t IMAGINE of.

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard”

The power lies within. A will and you can be sure to find a way. I don not say that the way will appear to you magically, of course you may have to go through certain ways to find out which one is yours. Remember Life is an examination, in which the one who copes often fails because everyone has a different question paper!

Time plays an important role. If you have to save your time from different places you need not to cut short your list of tasks. All you have to do is to squeeze the distance of time between them without actually squeezing the tasks. Now for the poor habit of procrastination is your biggest enemy. Going by some studies: – more time and less work leads to wastage and less time and more work is effective. So go ahead give yourself a tough competition!

Life has to be up and downs because a roller-coaster ride is always more thrilling than a dull train ride. When you are low, a little hope of everything being ‘alright soon’ would do miracles. If you can believe, you can achieve. So wake up with determination and go to bed with satisfaction.

“Work hard until your ideals, become your rivals”