Happily Stressed….

I was on my way back home from my 8 hour library and lecture day which has unsurprisingly become an everyday affair for me. I was literally trying to pull myself together carrying my laptop and my bag and hoping the bus will be on time.

I was standing in the bus stop on this windy evening waiting. The weekend was here and people were ready for their rituals of club hopping to beat the stress they have accumulated over their week on work.

I was stressed too……I am struggling with my work as everything that is taught sounds like Greek and Latin. My performance at present is in no way proportional to my efforts I am pumping in. It is like a frustrated tortoise trying to beat the world sprint record. I am trying hard, but I am succeeding by the toddlers steps.

I am stressed too, trying to make sense of all the cloning experiments and computer programming that is pipelined into my leaky and perforated brain. But below all this stress lies an unseen undercurrent of pleasure, the pleasure that I am stressed by something I like immensely to do. This is what drives me to put in that extra work, work those long hours and spend weekends in the library without complaining. I am enjoying this strain and the grind I am going through. I am determined to survive it all!

People have means to beat their stressed out bodies and minds. Some gulp down their favourite beers with the DJ in the background and others own loyalty to their film idols. Very recently I have started writing some unintelligent blogs like this one to do so…..I hope YOU survived this one!

ispiringly anonymous

I was attending my dream class. My guru and idol was teaching me. My nerves rattled and my heart was pumping. I pinched myself and asked, is this real?

He then talked about his research and the path he tread to get to where he was. It was no red carpet, and it is there, where I draw my inspiration.

He told us what drives some men and women among the billions that live in this beautiful world to make it big.

The illusion of knowledge is what prevents millions of people from investigating into potential unknown territory. The human mind would not want to accept the fact that it blind to certain things, and the controlling ego keeps the eyes away from interesting events and opportunities.

Never bend your back and accept something if it is not backed up by proper proof and research. Have an inquisitive mind and look keenly into things that you are not convinced about. That has been his motto in life.

It has opened my eyes and mind after that talk and I could not help but put into words the inspiration I gained from this wonderful personality.

I now see some of the congenital and stress related diseases differently and an inquisitive eye inside me opens up an array of questions.

One may have to beat the odds in convincing and disproving a long standing myth, but that is the challenge a good scientist should be up to.

I thank god for giving this wonderful life changing event to me when he had another billion choices he could pick!