The Road Ahead

It is not often that you get placed and make a visit to your hometown. You are greeted with hails from every corner. It was same for me. Moreover, even the nature was hailing . Yeah!! That’s true. Rarely can you see hailstorm in Indore, but this December you could. A pleasant surprise it was!

Looking back, particularly last 4-5 years, I feel surprised over my transformation from a school going boy to a working professional (if I can call myself one now ). We get used to the place where we live, setting our paws and taking control of everything around us to the best of our ability. And then suddenly we take a plunge to an altogether different world where we start no better than minnows. We take up challenges- sometimes get through them and sometime hit hard by them, but always there is one harder than the current one waiting for us.

Have I learnt enough for the change in these years? Well! I don’t think so. I still feel all these years passed in a flash with plethora of things in the backlog. May be it will take some time to take in the reality. Now the only thing remains to ponder upon is *The Road Ahead*. It’s a great feeling to enter into the real world with a little of knowledge and lots of hope and I look forward to it. Following lines from the poem “The Road Ahead” by Thomas Watson seem apt for now.

The road ahead beckons me

To be steadfast and true to it each day.

It calls to my spirit to see

No matter the rocks thrown in my way.

I will keep within my sight

The next step ahead,

And, despite the pits and rocks, fight

To hold his out-stretched hands, that once bled.

When I think these things too much to bear,

I will see His tears,

Falling because He cares,

And I will stand straight, losing all of my fears.