MHT-CET results out!!

Today is the F-day... yeah i know the term is D-day but when everyone around you is staring at the computer screen and swearing the F word, you might as well change the term. Do you live in Maharashra? If yes, then unless you have taken refuge at the bottom of the lake, you would know that MHT-CET (Maharashtra Common Entrance Test) results are out today. And as it is always with exams, almost no one scored what they had expected!! Its a deal you never understand. I mean, an average Indian student gives around seven to eight entrance exams, so you would think they can predict their scores with an Abhinav Bindra precision. but these Entrance Exams come, breaking all myths and springing new surprises!!

Its amazing the changes a little scrap of paper can bring to your life... it has the potential to make or break your future! People prepare for two to three years to see the desired figures (ahem, i mean numbers) on that paper... and then, when your efforts don't get rewarded adequately?? Yea, it can be a real shocker, it destroys your confidence... Yes, a marksheet does bring out the extreme in kids. Aspirants either get photographed with a boquet in your hand in the city dailies or in the hospital with dangling IV tubes for attempting suicide!!

But then, when you think about it, do these exams really have the potential to change your life?? I mean ok, you go to an awesome college thanks to your marks or you opt for something you hadn't planned earlier and give it a try, again thanks to your marks... But what if you find that the so-called last option you used is actually what you are good at? What if it's actually what you are meant to do? What if you find out that it's the thing you actually love? I believe that we all have a pre-decided destiny. Your life is a masterplan... so standing today with that bloody scrap of paper is no reason to lose hope, you know. Maybe what you lost is nothing. And what you might gain because of that loss is everything!

And of course, there's always a second chance. There's a section of businessmen called Navaldharis . They are a hardcore entreprenuer community in Gujarat.. They say, a true Navaldhari bussinessman is someone who can rise after being razed to the ground nine times... Their are loads of people who don't make it big in the first chance. But when they do make it big, all the world can do is watch in awe!!

So if u have scored awesome in CET (like my friend Shubhankar, he scored 186/200 in PMT, way to go dude!) here's a VERY BIG CONGRATULATIONS!! But if you haven't, maybe life has something better in store for you. Give yourself a second chance... give life a second chance!

Hold that thought!!