30 Years of Successful Failure #1 - A Dr ...

30 Years of Successful Failure #1 - A Dream Came True

May 04, 2022

It was a cloudy night, we were seated in a classroom with all restless minds. Eagerly awaiting "something" and after a long wait those bunch of guys popped up in the room. We were really tired but that day was supposed to change our lives, so we were excited too.

A beautiful and neatly-haired lady from that bunch came forward and started loudly - "It was a great day with you all. We enjoyed interacting with you guys...". Ohhhhhh… Come on cut the crap… Mam, we got it and we know that it's your duty to praise us and thank us, even if you don't want to or you don't like to. So please proceed ahead. After a lot of other blah blah blah, she finally started reading a paper full of names.

"Anayonkar... Durga...", ah! they were my classmates. Then hell lot of names she called that I didn't even care to listen to and she stopped. Oh goshhh! Has she forgotten my name? Shit! I lost the opportunity, did I? I think she is not yet finished, is it? Is she mad or what? She must have been mistaken somewhere. A series of such obvious questions started eating my head. I was too young to understand the 360-degree view of the situation or rather I was not smart enough you can say.

"Nikhil... Rohan... Rohit..." - I heard a manly voice and suddenly I looked up. Oh! How fool I am, there is another list, rather there are several such lists. Yeah yeah now it’s ok, I still have a chance. "Amit Savargaonkar..." - finally the third guy called my name and I still don't remember what my reaction was. But I am pretty sure it must have been an overwhelming joy flooding down my face.

I got it, I proved it, I made it. Finally, a dream came true, I got a job. It was not an ordinary job I got placed in the world's most trusted company of that time - Infosys. Yippee!! With a mouthwatering salary (of that time) and a respected job at first stroke, what else an average third-year engineering student wants? This is what I always wanted, at least I thought so at that point. 

We came out of that college room with few joys and a lot of many sorrows. Uppss! My classmates and my dear friends didn't get a job that day. We were together all the time during college days - festivals, lectures, practicals, labs, projects, competitions, dramas - everything we did together and very few of us got the job, others couldn't. Suddenly it was like "US" and "THEM". I remember US sharing "it's ok dear", "dude, you will get it tomorrow", "keep trying yar", "come on cheer up buddy", etc. with THEM and I still remember how much reality was there in those condolences. They were 20% real and 80% fake. It was not like we hated THEM or anything, it's just that we were so happy that we couldn't even see the tears behind those sad faces beyond formality. A lesson my subconscious learned - money and job security have little more priority than friends and other stuff. A wrong lesson though, at least for a person like me who is a socio freak. But let me not take all the blame because again - I was too young and not at all matured enough. That situation made us all act like that. We wanted to jump, we wanted to cheer loudly, we wanted everyone to praise us - because we got placed and we fulfilled what we were meant for. 

"Congrats Savarya, amazing!" - one of my project partners came out of the whole crowd. Savarya, my pet name (or you can say nickname) since my birth, almost everyone except my parents and a few relatives calls me by this name only. Sometimes it makes me think - do these people know my real name? I mean I do have my first name, middle name and even surname. Uffff! Getting drifted again… Anyways… That wish from him grabbed my attention and I said, "Thanks ya" as if I was from the sky. Suddenly every sad face from THEM party looked like a satisfied one because their friends got the jobs.

Oh my god, what? Why are they acting like that? They must be giving fake reactions too, aren't they? I tried to satisfy myself with such foolish thoughts but I could see that many of them were really happy as their friends got what they deserve. Do I really deserve it? I didn't know rather didn't want to know. I still don't want to take all the blame, a real hardcore asshole I am... May be !!

To Be Continued…

PS: The names mentioned in the article are my dear friends and you are sincerely requested not to use them anywhere.


That’s it for today :-)

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