Don't aim the sky...
I've spent last 20 yrs of my life..(coincidentally, that's as long as I am today ) listening to bullshit like
"Aim the sky, you might end up landing in the bushes instead."
In my opinion, that's the most pessimistic idiom i've ever heard. Why do you want to aim the sky when you are not sure how far you'll end up ? Why not hit the bushes straightforward in that case?
I feel one must always be aware of one's capabilities and achieve in accordance to one's calibre. Ok, it may mean that you're underestimating yourself, but so what ?
Underestimation is less painful than overestimation and consequent underachievement.
And frankly speaking, all these years I've spent overestimating myself..I've learnt quite well how far I can go. For that matter, we all do realise it some day. So I don't believe in 'underestimation' as a long term phenomenon..It's just a phase. It has it's end some day.
I don't fear working hard. I am not pessimistic. I am not optimistic either. I am practical. I am realistic.
I can recollect several times I sat for an exam and as soon as I was out, i knew to near 10% accuracy what I'll score. One night before that exam, it was around 20% accurate.
In this era of technology, we have access to almost any prior preparation course material we need for an exam. There's no dearth of mock-tests, previous-yr papers, books etc. for an exam today. Prepare well, prepare smart and practice those tests. Estimate yourself. If you feel you make upto the mark, or even close to it, cheer up. You can do 10% further too. That's as much as your mind can take you further. But that's it. Don't think you'll solve schrondinger equation knowing just the atomic number of the element.Such miracles don't happen. Never happened with me. But if you know you won't make it through..don't act stupid by crying over it later. Overestimation always disappoints. If you're too weak at heart to handle failure, don't sit for the exam. Just an hour before exam you know your pros and cons. Work on them, give the exam next time. You'll surely achieve what you rationally aimed at.
So stop looking skywards, look inwards.
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4 comments:
All I'll say is that you are being pessimistic. :D
Loved the last line btw ;)
Stop looking skywards, look inwards! Hey that's one of the best quote I have heard in recent past. But when you look inwards do you see bushes or sky or stars? I always see things which I like doing not even knowing what they will lead me to! But i try my best to do what I like doing and sometimes I end up at stars and some other time in bushes... but no matter where I reach and what others say, I end up enjoying my journey, cos I did what I enjoyed doing :) and sometime I question, who said that stars are better than bushes? Who decides that? When I do what I like doing and end up in bushes, I feel like I m in stars :) hehe... but this is what I believe in...
But I would like to say something about the original quote as well... "Aim the sky, you might end up landing in the bushes instead."
I see two messages in this quote:
1. Life is not pure mathematics and you can't always predict the exact outcome of your efforts.
2. Aim high if at all you aim cos setting an aim for youeself is like trying to estimate your potential. And I really don't belive anybody can ever estimate, leave alone realize, ones true potential. So no matter how high you aim you can still surprise yourself, all depends on your desire.
So I take these two messages from the quote dump the rest and continue to look inwards :)
Thanks ppl for ur valuable comments, but my idea here while I wrote this blog was to inhibit ppl from directionless efforts...particularly in case of exams.
I do agree everything depends on one's desire..so why not desire to give your best, test yourself against mock papers and be ready before the final test ? Prepare as hard as you can, but at the end, be sure of your goal and the strategies that'll take you there.
Nevertheless, I agree that life is not pure mathematics..so predicting exact output might be difficult sometimes..
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