26 and yet not famous!

Disclaimer – I apologise for having some out-of-the-context facts at the start of the post, which I have tried to relate somehow later. This post is not about any social problems or my perspective on any burning issue. This is about my life and my views on the life. If you aren’t interested in knowing, then you may stop here. And yeah, the post is bit too long (so is the disclaimer  :P)! I couldn’t help it  :) 

1985

A year that was declared International Youth Year by the United nations.

August, 1985

• Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
• Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people (the worst single-aircraft disaster in history).
•  British Airtours Flight 28M The 737's left engine caught fire while on its take off roll, 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.
• Samantha Smith, "Goodwill Ambassador" between the Soviet Union and the United States for writing a letter to Yuri Andropov about nuclear war, and eventually visiting the Soviet Union at Andropov's request, dies in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808plane crash. She was 13.
• India won the first ODI match by 2 wickets against Srilanka, in Srilanka
•   Texas Instruments, a Multinational corporation, starts its India operations in Bangalore and helps create infrastructure to export software via satellite communications from India for the first time.

25^th August, 1985 (12:19 AM)

Indian population increased by ‘X’. One of them was a boy of a not-so-well-settled family in Udupi, Karnataka. The happiness of the man & women had no bounds as they welcomed the new addition to their family, who opened his eyes for the first time after coming out of his mother’s womb. The man at his age 25 was a proud father. The boy was later named as Sunil – influenced by the cricket legend ‘little master’ of that time Sunil Gavaskar. 
Loved by the whole family, Sunil got everything he asked for. The not-so-settled family has slowly & steadily started settling as they bought their first own house after 3 rented houses since his arrival. His father worked hard as an auto-driver plus sometime in the small general stores shared by his younger brother. They were a joint family. He did his schooling at the same school where his father, uncle, aunt had studied. He always came in the first 3 ranks in all the exams in every class till 10^th. (Mostly 2^nd)  Jack of all trades but master of none – the line best suited him. The focus on study somehow deteriorated by time from 90’s to 80’s to 70’s. With the help of his mother tongue ‘Konkani’ he did get a seat in one of the Engineering College. For all the life he spent with parents, he got a chance for the first time to be on his own for the most part. The numbers continued to deteriorate but somehow he managed to get an average of 60 at the end of engineering on time. Luck always favoured him and he did manage to get a job at the end of college life in a small scale IT Company in his home town…

25^th August, 2011

Well, you know what I was talking about. It has been a pleasant stay on mother earth for me since 26 years now. When I look back, I seriously doubt if I have accomplished something that earn me a page in Wikipedia or any top results in Google :P .. Like I said, the event list given above has both good and bad things in it. I am not sure if my time will be added in the good part someday but I will try not being included in the ‘insane’ part... So here I am – a grownup – not single anymore – earning handsome money – leading my life on my own (with my wife of course) – in the IT hub Bengaluru. Life has given me so many things so far and I am not sure what’s in store next. Every year when I get up on my birthday, I swear to myself to make this year the best. But if I ask myself, honestly I am not sure what to answer. There were so many things that I wanted to do. So many things I wanted to learn and achieve. Yet, life has its own way of surprising me and giving a new definition over the time. I never thought I will be doing engineering – I did. Never thought I will get E&C – I did. After 4^th sem results never thought will get a job – I did. Never thought will have female fan following - *blush* * blush* I did. Never thought I will fall in love and then get married to the same person – I did... The list continues...

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Now this may look perfect, but I always managed to complain on things. I thought at times life gave me things that I believed I’m not worthy of, somehow over the time I started complaining about it. Sky is the limit – my uncle always told me. So the expectations went on increasing, and poor life couldn’t catch-up with it. And I ended up not appreciating the things it gave me...

I can give a list of thousands that I always wanted to do. But have I whole-heartedly tried to do something about it? Well, that is where the whole thing stops. At times we want many things in life without actually working towards making it happen. There can be many reasons why we don’t want to start apart from just the laziness. So, that proves that I shouldn’t complain. O.K. Point taken...

So, what’s next? It isn’t that easy to get featured in Wikipedia so easily, unless I create my own page :P  But thanks to so many social networks and this blog, if I search my name in Google – it does give some relevant results!! Yippee.. (Don’t think that this is my only goal in life ;) )

Now let me look at my parent’s life. Even they aren’t featuring in such pages and they even don’t have their facebook profile. But, they have done few exceptional things (apart from giving birth to Sunil Padiyar ;) :P Just kidding.. ), just like many other common man-woman who strive for their respective families better future. Or even my grandparents for that matter. They never had the facilities or education like I had; they never had good books, cloths, toys and many other things that I fancy or show-off. Yet, they managed everything without complaining. They may never get a chance to become famous or even invent something. But leading a respectful life making their children reach higher positions (yeah, it does require some effort from the children themselves... My brother can be a good example here for the efforts he put in... Or shall I say, he did make the best use of what was given to him...), fulfilling their family needs on time or at some time when it matters the most, building their social status from ground zero to where they are now... being in a middle class family in such a costly world – itself is an exceptional thing within. If I reach this level, perhaps then I consider my life to be worthy (even if I am not featured in a Wikipedia etc ;) ). There are many “unsung heroes” in our lives whom we often miss out. They can even be our own parents, grandparents.  Someday, if our children find us to be one, well, that itself would be an achievement... This doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t follow our dreams. But that is not my point...

Having blabbered so many things, I wish myself a happy birthday and better year ahead.