Meet Lalit !

Its 12:01 AM ,on 17th of august...just wished Happy Birthday to a friend. So whats the deal with meeting Myself. Let me explain. I have recently joined a club called the ToastMasters club.. a very famous club popular for developing public speaking skills in people. Here people get together, do some chit chat, a few of the enthusiastic ones come up with some prepared speeches. one person speaks , while others evaluate him. So..you know myself being enthusiastic upto the limit of imagination... raised my hand for the P1 session ie. the prepared speech one. In this I would be required to introduce myself to others for FIVE minute.

GOd! I have never spent this much time even thinking about myself. But since I have lately decided that I'll never quit from anything in life... be it vegetarianism or anti-choclate campaign, I have to give this speech. So I am just pondering over my own self. Who am I?

"Hello friends..egotistic talks is what I am allergic too. So I would talk, not about me, but about a very close friend named 'Myself Mangal'. Myself came to this planet from God-knows-where on 12th of October 1984. Since childhood he was the favorite child in the whole family. You know why? coz he never used to cry and was always sensible ( my god! what kind of children give up crying...I guess crazy and philosophical from the very beginning) Myself has an elder brother...whom he loves a lot. Myself ones told me that his life could be seen in phases or chapters. The first chapter is the chapter till class 10th. In chapter 1, myself was shown to be a very good student. Very hard working and intelligent. Very popular among friends but kind of shy person. He had all the capabilities...but always lacked confidence, and that was the reason his creativity did not come out in the first chapter. He was a kind of person...who could stay up the whole night just to prove himself in solving a puzzling problem, and can give up at the very first ball of cricket game. I think he was a guy to whom appreciation mattered the most. He needed people to push him in doing things he wanted to do...but couldnt do; His mother played ( and still plays the leading role in bringing back the gone confidence.. when he is in a low mood). I think he was not very optimistic and lacked self-confidence from the very beginning of chapter one ( this is the reason why... he is taking part in toast masters sesion these days). Myself is a well acclaimed mimicry artist and a nice stage compeerer. He was overweight since class fifth...and didnt go for jogging or morning walks just because he was concious of what people would say when they see an overoaded-cart running. Just to state some facts... our frined Myself got the Merit in the CBSE board and then went on to Kota for IIT-JEE preparations. So in essence...till chapter 1, Myself is low at self-confidence, over-weight, concious about weired thing and over weight. But is an intelligent

Chapter 2 of Myself's life is encompassing his stay in kota. In chapter 2, myself was staying in a rented room all by himself, with the least amount of externeal control, it was the true test of his self-discipline. Mr. Myself scored pretty well to a great extent ( Apart from the late night discussions on bizzare topics..gaining even more weight and being little irregular in studies). Nothing much exciting in this chapter ( apart from a few crushes and failed one-sided infatuations), but what we discovered is that our friend is vulnerable at self-discipline, has a feeble belief system and poor at time management.

In Chapter 3, Myself clears IIT and joins IIT R . ...... BUT WAIT A MINUTE!

I just realized, the reason myself is so low in confidence is because he has a low self-image. He looks back and sees all the things he was not good at and the pessimitic shades of the past. Like in chapter 2, he was made irregular and a mis-time-manager, but on the other hand..the fact that he grew socially and made a lot of good friends was suppressed. So from this word onwards only positive things.

In chapter 3, Myself is shown very excited about his college life. Eventhough the college infra-structure sucked big-time, he never gave up. He was probably the only freshers who volunteered for the techfest that year. He was performing well in studies too. Scored wonderfully in mid-sem tests, but unfortunately screwed up the end-sems. Started an under-cover wall magazine, performed at the hosted day, grew up socially. Althought the technical prowess was not very evident in the grade sheets, but Myself was technically as much sound as any damn 10 pointer. His friends used to envy him of his high energy and enthu. He became the member of a team, which was entrusted with responsibilities like student database and Official institute website. His knowledge grew exponentially, and so did his social circle. He had friends in all the years. He was enjoying the college life to the fullest. Chapter 3, also mentions about the Leg breaking incidents, where myself got his left leg broken twice in a 12 months. Tied down with a cast in the leg, he struggled hard throught the whole of third year and with the support of friends and family, he won over all the odds and cleared the third year with flying colors. The final year was the most happening,year.. came into contact with a lot of friends. Myself got a exposed to the philosophical side of life... he delved into the depths of human mind, and was excited when a lot of his findings concurred with Bhagvat Gita. He grew technically into a deadly equipped computer scientist. In december got a job in Oracle.

Chapter 4...the professional life is under construction. But the trailer has succeded in getting viewer's confidence....... (to be continued)