CGPA is just a number , go beyond that

It is not over until you win !!

 When you were a three year old kid , every teacher in school , every parent in home  " Kid , count your fingers "Öne , Two , Three " and that's how you enter the world with numbers . Until you are five , these numbers only remain a number till you turn six and then the silly GPA system starts .

It's going to be 22 years for me since I came into this cruel world , where at every point of life , even now when I landed up doing Master's in Germany , parents are like "Beta uska GPA toh itna aaya tha , tmhara itna kam kiyu hai ? Parents don't understand you , don't understand what are you going through , they just think GPA is good , so you are good . When I came here to do Master's , no one asks me what was your GPA , instead they ask me what project did you work on in your Bachelor , what practical knowledge you have ?  Trust me GPA is just a number , a number like one , two , three . Don't dishearten yourself if you have a low GPA , just have a sound knowledge .  

Trust me , in these 22 years , what I realized it , GPA is just a number , a number which you used to learn it in your kindergarten days , let them remain a number forever , don't turn them into nightmares . They are simply a reflection of what you wrote in exam on that day , and not the knowledge you have inside your mind .

I remember the dialog of the famous 3 idiots movie , " Excellence ke peeche bhago , success jhak maar ke peeche aayegi " .  Live upon that , forget what parents say , they are just a source of building pressure ,  stop comparing yourself , be your unique way , you are unique in every sense .

GPA is a number which is killing so many students , so many young talented students especially in India. You land up doing your bachelor's in IIT and then low GPA strikes you out of institute , this is what happens in India ? Is it worth it , how can anyone judge a student on GPA , when it is just a number .

I had the lowest GPA in my third semester way back in 2013 , well 8.01 for my parents was extremely low , and they scolded me every way they could. Well , that scolding made me cry for the whole where every time I was in constant fear of losing myself , pressures about GPA starts building up like this. Well , now I realize my tears were not worth that 8.01. It doesn't even matters now whether I have a 8 or a 10 . World doesn't judges you on grade ,  in fact world doesn't judge you , you yourself are solely responsible for judging yourself. Grades are just a division , which doesn't decides you future.

I have been through many campus interviews in my bachelor days , almost 5 of them. None of them asked me about grade, trust me a 6 pointer landed up in Robert Bosch , so does the grade really matter's ?  Don't fear grades , Fear is not good for life , that is what I realize it today , well four years were more than a nightmare for me about constant GPA I had to maintain , that parental and societal pressure , which never ends . In Germany , your grades in your CV is what they look at the last , they look at your efficiency , I have gone through so many discussions in universities as well as in companies , they simply ask what do you know , rather than asking what GPA you had . Well , I realized it here , GPA is just a number not your life . GPA is not worth for which you lose your life. Well , GPA made me fear death when I was 17 .

Realize your potential , and conquer the world . Rejections are just a part of life , bare with them . Even I had rejections , worst rejections I could ever imagine . But world never ended up with me, my hard work gave me new ways to realize myself , I had a rejection from Mu-Sigma interview at 3AM in night , believe me 30 July 2015 was worst night of my life I thought of jumping down when I realized I had something better than Mu-Sigma   , 30 July 2016,  I am in Germany because of my hard work , GPA never mattered here , it was my projects and work that landed me here . 31 March 2015 , TATA-POWER rejection in HR interview where they had complaints about my English and my age , well without my English proficiency , I couldn't get into top 30 out of 7500 applicants in Karlsruhe School of Optics And Photonics.  

Rejections are just a part of life , and not a end to life , they simply mean something better is on your way . To sum up with this ,

Dear Lost Friendship , I still keep it with you .

Our friendship was beautiful , it isn't anymore. We lost contacts , we lost connections , and everything. But one thing which will forever keep us connected , we live in some part of our planet Earth , unfortunately not knowing where you are or where I am .

Long time back , when we were  teenagers , people were jealous of our friendship , which ended as the school ended. DPS gave me the best memories to forever cherish for , but it gave me many  unfortunate happenings , the major one was losing you .  For me it was not friendship it was something beyond it "SOMETHING" is still undefined for me , neither  it was for you . I still can't figure out whether it was a childhood crush , or it was simply a deeper insight into friendship.

 You were Like a glass of chilled water to me who’d walked for miles in the scorching heat to get my admit card from my home which I could never forget, like ghungroo to a classical dancer, like the microphone to a performer. And like oxygen to me.

You came like moonlight and left like sunshine, and in the entire while you stayed, you were a whirlwind. You were medicine, and I had withdrawal symptoms. You were a shooting star, and I had night blindness.

We were all the puzzle pieces that didn’t fit together, yet with you by my side, our picture felt complete.

You taught me to see colours in monochrome, windows in houses and stardust in humans. You taught me not to fall, when all I did was stumble. And when your eyes met mine in the masquerade, I knew I wanted to be loved too, even if only by you.

You taught me how to read physics , you gave me the motivation to write my second paper in JEE , you gave the best birthday gift I could ever get in my life. It was not something a materialistic gift like a card , or a birthday present . It was something much more than that. With your left leg fractured , you came to my home just to wish me .

After the board exams were done , you didn't say me a bye like all other's did , but a good bye .

For me Good Bye's are not forever

Good Bye's are not an end , but it ended

They simply mean , I'll miss you

Until we meet again !

Of all the things that could have been, you taught me some stories are not meant to be written, some songs are more sacred than others, that some eyes twinkle more than all the stars in the sky.

It was just a last glimpse of you , when I forever said you Bubye from railway station , when you landed up doing bachelor's from IIT Bombay , and I landed up in a mediocre college . You were exactly what I wanted today , but I don't have it . It's correct , what you want you will never get it .