Touching the BASE :)

Generally students have the opinion that either you do nothing in an internship or you work like donkeys and get paid in peanuts. Surprisingly I was blessed not to fall on either of these two categories.

Few weeks before our internship I received an email from the company inviting me to the induction program for summer trainees. I thought that it would be a boring day where we would listen to a lengthy presentation about the company and come back but I was astonished by the way the day went. All our mentors along with the HR team were present there and we formed teams and played games and learned a good lesson about team work. The way induction was done said it all. I was highly impressed by the involvement of the company and the seriousness they displayed towards summer trainees. I was really motivated and was happy that I won’t be wasting my very important two months in this company.

The company recruited six people from our college and four of us were put into the Central Supply Chain team. We were excited and nervous on the first day in the company wondering about what our projects would be and how would be the culture of the team. We were greeted by a lovely lady who was our project guide. She made sure we are comfortable and asked us to occupy our cubicles and wait for our mentor, who happened to be the General Manager of the Supply Chain platform.  Later that day we all were assigned multiple projects based on different areas of Supply Chain.

We started working on our projects from the very next day. While our projects were reviewed every alternate day our peers in other companies were struggling to know their projects. We were blessed to get the best project guide in the whole world. She was an alumnus of our college. She used to spend all day clearing our doubts. No matter how silly a doubt I have she would always entertain. She was always there at the office. She was very dedicated and hence loved by all in the Central Supply Chain team. She was an inspiration for us and because of her good work the company has a very good image about our college.

Internship is the time when we should learn as much as we can and this actually happened for us just because of our guide and mentor. Our projects also involved interaction with different heads of the Supply Chain Team. I was amazed to experience how grounded they are and in spite of having tremendous knowledge, I never felt insignificant while interacting with them. It was a great feeling when what you do in a summer internship matters greatly to the organization.

The internship went well and during these two months we grew professionally as well as personally. The last day we had to present our projects and the learning outcomes to the Asia Pacific head of the Central Supply Chain. Everything went well and our mentor, project guide and the Transport head took us to a grand lunch treat. It was great to be treated so special.

We were told by the HR that there would be a felicitation program where all the summer trainees from different institutes would be given the completion certificate and the best summer trainee would be given an award.

It was a great day of felicitation where we all spoke about our experiences during the two months. The guest of honour was the Vice President of Marketing who shared some great experiences from his life and also gave some insights on the company. Everyone was waiting for that moment when one among the eighteen summer trainees would receive the very prestigious award of the best summer trainee. Within the next few seconds they announced a name which sounded very familiar. Suddenly my friends started patting my back and then I realized that it was my name. It was a great achievement in my life being honoured by such a giant organization.  A wave of satisfaction ran through me making me realize that my contribution is valued and appreciated.

Lets not make this world blind...

We all know the story of Pandora’s Box and how our lives revolve around that one last thing which was in it.We all have our dreams and we live each day with the hope that they will come true.Hope keeps us going and everyone in this world has hope if not anything else.                                                             

On the way of our dreams we come across many people some stay with us for a while, some stay for long and some of them act as critics. But no matter what all of them makes some contribution to our lives.

I always thought how I can find that one thing which controls our happiness and now after all these years being away from home and being with unpredictably good and not so good people around I found that they are the ones who control the happiness in our lives. Whenever we are happy or sad it is only because of them. We celebrate, go out, fight, watch movies, eat, cry, shop, work and hence build experiences with them. So does it mean we would be happy forever if we choose those people who make us feel wanted, makes us happy, care about us and about those small things which we like or hate and makes us love them back? It’s easier said than done. People are the most difficult to handle and we cannot predict their views and attitudes as they change with time and experience.

We all have people in our lives who love us but somewhere down the years their love starts fading. They no more take efforts to make us happy, give us small moments of joy to light up our lives. Can this happen that someone is so used to our existence in their lives that they don’t really care about anything else than we breathing next to them?  I don’t know may be some of you would agree and others  may not , but what keeps us alive  is that we still hope that one day that person would realize and start mending the relation and we would be on happier terms again. But the question is how long one should wait for such a thing to happen or may be how one should decide whether the person is worth the wait. Or else should we do a tit for tat like if you don’t care I stop caring too..!!

Ultimately it is very humane of us to seek happiness and peace with all the people who are crucial to us and whom we don’t want to lose. We all make mistakes and when we realize and want to correct ourselves all we need is a second chance. Life is about second chances. We should learn to forgive so that we all can grow as individuals, leave bad things behind and give ourselves the second chance to be happy and make everyone around us happy because without it life would not go on.

 I remember a great quote of Gandhi which would be very apt for me to conclude with “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

 Lets not make this world blind... !!

The Man in my life

Everyone wants to be loved but if it is not unconditional it is not love. This is about the man in my life. Yes I love this man .He gave me everything in life or in fact I would say he gave me life. I learnt what love is when he brought me into his life. He is a person who resembles humility, strength, peace, positivity and patience. He gives shape and meaning to my life. The way he treats everyone around him, inspires me to be humble. He is liked by all. Being with him is what counts as an amazingly great day for me. It is not easy for him to be ever optimistic and never complaining but it requires a lot of strength to be so. In spite of all the hardship he went through in life he never loses hope and he believes in making the world a better place to live. I have learnt a lot from him. He believed in whatever I do. He lives for his family. He is always there for me no matter what. His belief in me helps to keep my dreams alive. I love everything about him. The way he talks, the way he cares for me, the way he worries when I am sick, the way he makes me smile and the way he ensures my happiness every moment. I feel blessed to have him in my life. Every time I feel low, I talk to him and I feel great. He is just amazing.

 I wonder sometimes how one can be so selfless, always giving and forgiving. The way he lives his life makes me believe in goodness and gives me hope to find the good in bad. He makes me strong. He makes me humane. I can’t list the innumerable sacrifices he has done for me. Thanking him for everything would be something very minuscule as compared to his greatness.

He is the world to me and I cannot live a second without him. No matter how much I write about him it is never enough. No words can define him.

I hope everyone should have such a person in life who cares for you so much, make your life meaningful and give you unending happiness with his presence.

Dad I love you.