College to Office

Got an sms this morning from one of my college teachers. “you want and you get that is luck. You want and you wait that is time. you want but you compromise that is life.. you want and you wait and you don’t compromise that is success.”

My reply, “you want, you wait, you don’t compromise and then you get it. And then you regret it.”

This particular lady is someone I really look up to. She is slim, has short curly hair, wears purple nail paint on her toes, dresses in ordinary khadi kurtas even though she is very rich (something which one of her colleagues scolded her for!), has a monkey in her key chain , used to have Tweety bird sun shades in her car, drives a big black swanky car and of course, smses her students. The real reason she is an inspiration is because she is an awesome teacher and she talks sense. Every head in the room follows her as she moves around the room. One voluntarily picks up the book and studies. Backbenchers volunteer to answer. And in matters other than academic, she offers a sensible advice.

Hope to be someone like her one day.

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Why does work not end? Why is it that when I go and sit at my comp at 7 a.m. (yes!! THAT early) I don't get up till its lunch time at 1? Does everyone do that?