Nervous first steps

Its official now, I will be leaving for my further studies to the americas. I am hoping for a great learning experience and putting some thought into understanding the cultures and diversities. As I prepare for this arduous journey of my life, I am nervous as any other person. This is quite expected and understandable according to the many people I have talked to(wry smile).

I am keeping myself busy taking driving lessons and visiting my relatives and friends. There are many emotions that pass through as you meet a few people, you are overwhelmed, distraught, happy. Sometimes you also feel like you are not missing people, they are going to stay forever. What with the internet and all, it seems like you are in the same room. All hail skype and google.

There is still a lot of shopping and small things I have to finish. A few small trips, a few friends to meet, a few goodbyes to say. All in all, I am hoping the next few days will be exciting with the shade of nostalgia and gripe laughter. Fingers Crossed :) .

The times they are a changing

I am an software engineer ergo I am the quintessential of the modern age. The spectacular quality of software industry is the constant change its undergoing. There are many layers to a software organization, much like an onion, and it is almost as essential. 

Speaking of change, everyone i know has read "who moved my chesse", about embracing change or shunning it. In a social world, embracing change is a good thing, it speaks volumes of your character and your adaptability as an individual. I have myself seen coming into the turbulent under-draft of a change. How we each respond to change decides on how we survive the ruffles. 

Pondering on this a little further I was able to convene my immaculate train of thought. If all we do is respond to change, we will only keep adjusting ourselves never actually getting ahead of the curve. There are many such examples I can quote, a few famous companies like toyota, accenture and apple; definitely not ford, they only respond to change. As we look at the world leaders and the successful elite many only aspire to be, a certain quality unbecoming us is we are attempting to ape. This is probably a quality imbibed into us by the many generations that we have left behind. An ability to engineer a change and foresee the magnificent future that lies ahead would partake analyses and depth only the  profound can envision.

The ever changing world around us will only let us play catch up until we rise above it and start looking at ways of controlling and engineering it. So to all those aspiring gates and jobs, dont try to follow in someones footsteps , dont''satisfy yourself with emrbacing change; take the few difficult steps and envision a future your mum would be proud of.