The life is long, and the journey is the destination

[To All My Friends Who Couldn't Make it During First Few Days of Placements]

I guess misery does love company, and trust me, the companions are harsh. Even the Doubting Thomases would swear by the name of virgin Mary that self doubt, beyond any other, is the worst form of al human emotions, when the clouds seem to hover over your consciousness and seem to destroy everything that you have gained, and when the world seems to be a place unacquainted, a place where you do not belong.

Even the best of us are haunted by the clouds of self doubt, when life seems to be consumed by shadows, swallowed by darkness whole. A time comes when every life goes off course, and in these moments of desperation, you must choose your direction. Sometimes you fight to stay on your path while others tell you your path, sometimes you succumb and allow life to take its course, and sometimes, you embark upon a new journey and embrace a new path.

Every morning we decide to move forward or simply give up. But remember, once in a while we push to something just beyond the pain of suffering, something beyond the quite realization of a dream. Because only when put through a test do we realize who we are, and only when put through a test do we realize who we can be. Only if you decide to hang on for one more day, things might change. All of us are good enough to make it; sometimes we just forget to believe in it. Ayn Rand wrote, “Do not let the fire go out, spark by the irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not quite, the not yet and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in the lonely frustration of life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.” And believe me, it is true.