Enjoy What You Do

I looked out the window to distract myself from the boring lecture on Digital Signal Processing, the DSP or frequently called, the Degree Stopper ! Why was I not able to do what i had planned ? Was it due to lack of concentration or lack of determination ? I brushed my thoughts away coming back to the boring lecture ! The professor was erasing what he had written on the board, I had not copied it, but my mind was building castles in the air. I had done almost nothing related to the topic. Why was i even here in the first place ? I could've chosen acting, I am good at it, or that is what i thought, could've tried 'Arts' or 'Commerce' as my stream. I remember the day i gave my IIT exam. That paper yielded nothing to me. Although i had worked really hard to achieve a neat rank, I could've given it much more. The mere thought of it made me feel malaise. Well, now i had moved forward, I was going to give the GRE in a few month's time. I remember my father had meted out a strict punishment for me to study harder for IIT, but that did not stop me from pushing studies aside and enjoying my life. Oh My God ! This is it ! I have found the answer to my own question. It is not the lack of concentration or determination, it was the lack of me wanting to do it, or enjoying doing it. If I had wanted it and enjoyed it, i could've achieved it, but I found enjoyment in everything other than studies. Just then a piece of chalk hit me on my head, quite hard. My professor was miffed at me since the last fifteen minutes for staring out the window, and I was thrown out of the class. Some things do have a cost, I guess !

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