It was too late for a girl in her mid-twenties, pursuing MBA after completing her graduation in law and completed her schooling with commerce background to actually understand and realize this. Running away from every petty thing she didn’t get or found difficult to achieve was her favourite game. Never did she realize that choosing an easier path will only lead her to another issue she couldn’t imagine.
Looking up to her father, the seven-year-old ambitious girl said, “I want to become a 'doctor', just like Papa.” Years passed by and she, developed a dislike for studying. But, becoming a doctor needs a lot of hardwork, patience and persistent intellectual labour. What was the next best option? Engineering! And science she chose, because social studies was not her cup of tea. And again, she did not see the gravity and consequences of her choices. Senior secondary was not a cake walk, as she had imagined. Failing to understand the technicalities in physics, chemistry and maths, she lost again. She believed commerce was her thing. Yes! In middle of the academic year, she chose to study commerce with mathematics. The entire batch of commerce was ahead of her, still she managed to clear her exams with decent marks and confidently entered class XIIth, where accounting and maths became a huge issue and Chartered Accountancy as a career option was scraped off the list. What else was she left with? CS? B.Com? Civil Services? Law?
LAW it was!! Wasn’t it interesting?! Definitely it was a pool of best opportunities and exposure. Moreover, a professional course. She diligently worked for it and ended up in a renowned law school, to study what? “B.A.” plus LL.B. All her hatred for social studies came back to her after three years, but this time, she was in love with the subject. The subject of course caught her interest, but her experiences in the professional environment during her internships, the competition and the herd behaviour made her think that how differently could she shape her future when compared to others in the same field?
MBA was rare choice. Knowing about the prospects and the exposure she would get, there she was, again in the commerce and business domain. Maybe with a better level of understanding, in a different time of life, she was back at what she had been avoiding. Commerce, business, and quantitative skills.
In any point in time, when we resist any difficult situation, they always stay there in our lives and move on with us when we go for the alternatives. In other phases of our lives, with our goals firmer and more transformed, we tend to choose the things that we resisted in the past and hence it is totally alright if we accept it in a different phase of life with better level of maturity. And the girl understood that what we resist, persists and accepted that whatever happens in life, happens for a reason.