I have no aim, yet I am not an aimless wanderer. My life is a journey. Destinations will not stop me; rather they will become a part of my journey. I will reach destination upon destination and I will fulfil aim upon aim and I will still go on.
One may question the worthiness of a life without an aim to achieve or a person without a destination to reach. But destinations are not the end all and be all of everything. All along the way we think of how wonderful it would be if we reach our destination; if we accomplish what we set out to do. But what happens after one reaches the destination? One feels happy, euphoric perhaps; one celebrates. These celebrations last for some finite amount of time, not eternity. After the celebrations are over one has to move on, maybe on a new journey or continue the old one to reach newer milestones. What one remembers later with happiness or sadness are not the wins or losses but the time spent and the things done on the way to the destination.
At the end of two years at SIMSR I will get what I came here for-a PG degree in management but what is more important to me are the things I learnt and the things I did; the friends I made and the people I met; the little failures and the little successes I had and the obstacles that I faced-the story behind the achievement. People will know that I have a PG degree in management but what they will not know is my journey of these two years-that will be my prized possession-sacred to me.
Every man or woman does something in life but the road they travel remains unique to them and that is why one should enjoy the roads they take, the paths they traverse. Destinations can be reached in many ways, if I fail once I can try again to reach it, but I can never tread the road I have left behind again, for that road is time solidified into memories through our actions.
