Thoughts in a Chat!

This was during a chat on a batch-mates’ WhatsApp group.

It was on achievement and success. I shared my thoughts, and a friend’s reaction in jest was that my juniors must have dreaded my moral lectures. It wasn’t meant to be one. Given the times we’re in today, thought of sharing it here.

“If you think about it, most of us who graduated from our respective colleges/institutes have, in our lives, made the most of the opportunities that life has given us, including overcoming the lemons and tomatoes that life has thrown at us. At any and all phases of life. To the best of what we could with what we had, under the circumstances we were in.

It would be extremely unfair to compare and say that only those who have achieved a certain status or financial success have achieved greatness. For greatness is not defined by the chair one sits on, but by what one does in touching others’ lives whilst sitting on every chair, or floor, through life.

The world unfortunately looks at rankings. They mean nothing but an opportunity to do something from a position recognized. But it doesn’t mean that all others who don’t have that position, or are not ranked, are any lesser.

We should understand this, internalize it, and get people to not be clouded by it. The day one gets over ‘mine is bigger or better than yours’ will be the day one has truly evolved”.

Something to think about!

(this was published on LinkedIn in Dec 2021)