Many a times the seemingly insignificant decisions end up shaping our life!
I met one of my college seniors (NIT Kurukshetra) at his office last week. Bhuvnesh is currently an IAS officer. He was the gold medalist of the ’89 batch and had joined CMC after engineering.
As we spoke on various aspects, the discussion maneuvered to the aspect of turning points in our life.
He shared his personal story.
He was earning pretty well at CMC and was not in a looking zone. He used to visit the UPSC centre as and when some work was assigned to him (through CMC).
Considering his strong academic credentials, people used to motivate him to study for the UPSC exam. He politely refused each time.
It was the year 1992.
He came to know of 3 RECKers (our institute at that time was known as Regional Engineering College Kurukshetra or RECK and hence students as RECKers!) who cleared the IAS exam with 2 of them having a rank in top 50.
This was a big turning point for him.
He knew them – they were his colleagues and juniors and apparently none of them being college gold medallists..
Remember the dialogue from 3 idiots:
दोस्त फेल हो जाये तो दुःख होता है,
लेकिन दोस्त फर्स्ट आ जाये तो ज़्यादा दुःख होता है ।
Thankfully, nothing of this sort happened to Bhuvnesh!
Instead he thought if they could do it, why couldn’t he?
He was inspired to appear for the exam next year. He wrote the IES and the IAS exam. He cleared and got telecom/ audit. He wasn’t too keen on audit.
He appeared again next year, secured a rank of 40 and got commissioned as an IAS officer.
Many people get inspired by seeing others but the successful people are the ones who act when inspiration strikes!
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