The movie really impressed me as it must have done to crores of people across the world. I along with my roommates (who also are IITians ) spent the whole night talking about the movie. In the morning, I went to my office, my mind still thinking about the movie. I went to my office, opened my email, and saw lots of mails regarding pending work which I was supposed to complete in the last month itself. I closed my mailbox, moved towards the conference room where we have our daily meeting, everyday. The boss asked me what my progress was on the pending work. I had no answer, I tried making some excuses, giving some fraud progress status, which we were so expert in, during the college days. But none could satisfy him. He scolded me, as he does nowadays everyday and gave another warning to me, which I have become really comfortable with nowadays. The meeting was over, I came out of the conference room, entered into the engineer's hall where I sit and pass my whole day in the office ,each day. I gossiped with my friends about how furious the boss was and how well I have adapted myself to handle him and his warnings. Then after an hour, I was alone in the hall. All my colleagues had gone to their respective units, but I was feeling tired; I had not slept the whole night and I really felt like sleeping. I saw all around to see if anybody was around.I put my head down on the desk and slept.
Very rarely I see dreams. But when I see them they are really dreadful; and this time when I slept, I saw a dream. I saw that "3 Idiots" was a reality and not a movie. We were three friends; Amir, me and Sharman (Joshi). It was 2'o clock in the night. Amir, me and Sharman are all drunk and sitting on the stairs leading to the central library.
I ask Amir, "Baba Rancho, since you know all the things, please tell me why I am not able to do well in my job, why I am scolded by my boss everyday, why no warning has been able to change my attitude towards my work, please tell"
Amir replied, "It is not that you are a worthless fellow, its not that you can not do well in your profession, you can be a star performer if you do a work of your own choice, it is just that you are not at the right place, you are not where you wanted to be, you took up your job not because you wanted to do that particular job, but only because you sat, during placements, in each and every company and got selected in this company, if at that time you had asked yourself what type of job you wanted, what area you wanted to work in, and if you had tried to get a job in that area you would have got a job sooner or later and, succeeded in your job, and in that case you would have earned praises in place of scoldings each day, and rewards in place of warnings. Still there is time left, it is never late to recover, correct your wrongdoings, get a job which really interests you, and see the effect... "
I woke up, I saw around myself to see if Amir was around, I could not find him. I could not believe it was not real, that meeting had changed me, It had changed me for the good. I stood up, I was really feeling great, while I was sleeping, I had a dream and the dream had awakened my inner self. I was feeling if I was in some other world.
Suddenly somebody shouted, "Hey you, come here, are you sleeping or what?"
It was my boss.
I smiled, I was wondering if I should narrate to my boss about the dream I had just now. I decided I was better off in negation to my desire. My smile turned into a laughter. I kept laughing, my boss was amazed, his mouth wide open.
He told me,"You are fired, don't come to office from tomorrow"
I kept laughing, shut-down my computer, picked up my back and left.
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