Am I a reservoir of latent potential or am I an empty swimming pool? That’s the feeling I had 6 months ago when I had never experienced everlasting joy in doing anything. The law of diminishing marginal utility applied to everything I laid my hands on and it had begun to scare me. Or may be I was a river that ebbed and flowed, denuding and exploring a new particle of sand every second. So I thought and pondered – when do you know that you’ve reached the ocean and there’s no more exploring ? When do you know you’ve to become still and calm? When people say chase your dreams, what if you don’t know what your dream is ? What if your dreams are like clouds, floating endlessly and lacking shape? I realized, sometimes, you’ve got to catch a flight and you’ve got to experience the turbulence of a cloud to know that may be that cloud , that dream was not the one you aspired for. If that’s not your cloud, what is?

 

So here I am, voyaging on the cloud of an Msc in Integrated Marketing at NYU. It has been a challenging experience so far. Living in New York City is a beautiful struggle and I use the oxymoron because life here is truly ironic – the city is bubbling with people and yet people dine at restaurants alone, each individual wants freedom in every walk of life and yet everyone suffocates in tightly packed jars which they call their homes, there’s more kindness with strangers than family and the blaring sirens of the fire brigades are silenced by the peace and tranquility of the exotic Central Park. Subway stations are forever flocked by millions, the millions that oscillate like a pendulum, day in and day out, with the same goal, but I want to go beyond the measure of this fixed wavelength. I want to transcend beyond the boundaries, beyond the usual humdrum, beyond my comfort zone and belie every expectation, norm and the usual.

 

Over these few months of my course, I have realized the importance of marketing, strategy and communication. I want to imbibe in me the energy of this volcanically changing field and use it to be an entrepreneur eventually in life. I believe in the saying that if your dream doesn’t scare you , its not your dream and I wake up every morning with the Mt Everest of fear lurking in my mind backed with a burning fire of resilience in my heart and I know , someday I’ll make it!