Alas! My dream came true on Valentine Month. Yes, Believe it or not. I am a Sun Certified Programmer now. The story is about how I ruptured the hurdles I faced in this long journey. It all started on the month of June after my birthday celebrations. I did some ground work for about three months on the basics of java till June. While sticking to the basics I felt, “Why the hell are you studying this?” My brother Pradheep kept on asking me whether I started studying. Though I am poor in executing plans, I am a very good planner. But I made up my mind that I should prove that I am a good executor too. As per my plans, I started concentrating on it. I felt the best quality what I possessed was planning. Whenever I come across comments I took it as a challenge to crack it. It all happens when you are unique. As days started running, my grandfather was not feeling well and I took responsibility of taking him to hospital and he underwent an operation. Then I resumed my preparations after some days. My brother encourages me all the time from my childhood. Few of my friends started encouraging me. My roommate Gowrishankar said that he is also preparing for the same exam by his brother’s advice. On hearing this I felt that all brothers in this world would do the same. I was happy that I had a company to study. Moreover whenever I see him with the book, my consciousness alarms me, “Look, he is preparing. What about you?” I accelerated my preparations. I decided to take my exam on 10th of October. It was an online exam and one of the questions in the exam collapsed me entirely. Most of the questions were hard to answer and I finished the exam hoping that I will clear it. But unfortunately, I scored 48% and I fall short of success. I was totally upset. I don’t know what went wrong in the exam. I made a call to my brother and said the message. He consoled me and asked me to start to my home. When I came out of the test center, I felt lonely and started walking without any strength. I was not sure that whether I crossed the roads with consciousness. The moment I saw my laptop in my home, tears started flowing in my eyes. My mom tried her level best to console me over the phone. But I was not able to digest this breakdown. I got back to college the next morning and I felt guilty to face everyone in my class. Negative thoughts started flowing in my minds. I felt that this October was a black month in my life. After some days, fortunately, I started thinking of proverbs like “Failure is the stepping stone to success”. I gave a break to myself and with full of confidence I started again from the scratch in the month of January. I analyzed myself where I went wrong. I rectified those faults and finally I planned to take the exam on 6th February. Hoping that this would be my day, I was very confident in answering the questions this time. I completed my exam quickly. The moment I saw my score as 94% my heart was filled with joy uttering these words,
“A person can feel the core of joy and happiness only when he achieves his success after overcoming his hurdles”.
On coming out of the test center I was filled with happiness and this time the roads were looking brighter and I felt like shouting in roads. But behaving like that would be crazy. I shared my victory by making calls to my relatives, friends etc. I can narrate how excited I was through an incident. I typed a message and after pressing send button, I kept the phone on my ears for a dial tone. I started giggling to myself about my excited state. My brother informed me about Sun Tech Days’09, a national wide conference at Hyderabad. I made my mind that I should use this great opportunity by attending it. I felt that this day would be my turning point in my career. Also I did not fail to remember 10th October because if I had not faced that day I would have not got a better start now.
Alas! I felt the proverb, “Hard work never fails”.
