All It Takes Is A Little PUSH....

Notice a change? Yup! My title is longer and a bit different from my usual ones. Now the title is inspired work actually. See I have been watching "The Dark Knight" a lot these days, and loved the dialogues. So I wanted to use atleast one of them. ( Its an awesome movie by the way! Do watch it if you have not.) And there is the part in the end where the Joker (Heath Ledger) tells Batman "Madness is like Gravity... All it needs is a little PUSH!"
But I am not going to talk about madness today, something else.

Here I was, sitting in a place which I would not like to mention (:P), thinking about what to write. As often as I have noticed, whenever I do write something on my blog, its always related to the period which I am having. So, a couple of months ago, when I was writing all the humorous posts, I was quite happy and care-free about life (which doesn't mean I was not responsible!) And nowadays only serious thoughts have been coming in my mind!


So here I was, sitting  "somewhere", doing some introspection. As I was going through my past month, I noticed that academically, I had started the month badly, and had ended it very well (which hopefully gets reflected  in my results :P). I also remembered the lull period in between, which saw me utterly demoralized, low on self-confidence and doubting my abilities (Yes, that is what IIT does to you :P). However, after talking it over to a person, I got lifted, motivated and begun to work as hard as ever. Which is what got me wondering as to what that person had told me, which got me so charged up and motivated.

As I begun to trace back the conversation, I collected hazy memories and could hardly remember the words told to me. Hardly a sign of an important conversation right?

Isn't a motivating speech supposed to be remembered for atleast more than a month? I mean, if it got you charged up, motivated, raring-to-go, would you not remember it? However, as hard as I tried to remember (which worsened things, because when you try to remember something hard, it always ends up being forgotten) I just could not recollect what that person had told me.

So was that conversation not motivating or useful? Not at all, it got me motivated and still keeps me motivated even though I don't remember it. So what was it?

After a lot of thinking, I finally came to a conclusion. And the conclusion was that- Along with the motivation given by the person, there was one thing which was extremely important which was needed to complement the motivation. And that was "Intent". Yes it was the intent that made the difference. It was also because of the fact that I WANTED to be motivated and I WANTED the things that I aimed for, that I actually got motivated. Of course, I'll not take anything away from the person who did try to motivate me!

The point is that you can bring in the Best Oratar in this world or the Best Motivational Speaker, but if the intent is not there, its never gonna happen!!

The other thing that I got out of the whole thing was the fact that it was the smallest thing which got us motivated. Those things are so small, that you can't recollect them after some days. However, they keep you motivated throughout!

Life is a journey, and a journey is full of ups and downs. You always need motivation to complete your journey. There are times, when you lose focus of your goals or the Big Picture, but I strongly believe that if you have the intent, you will always keep getting motivated, no matter what. (Modern day version of- If there is a will, there is a way! :P) So just get out there, and go get your goal!!

P.S- I Like Writing Serious Posts.  :) And I guess they'll keep coming until I am in a better place than I am now! :)