The Petals Of Flowers - Chapter 2 - Decisions
“There are no unreasonable things.” – This is the statement on which the whole field of psychology is based on. If a person is doing something, he or she wont do it without a reason. Most people in India in the age of 22 wants to do a masters in business administration.
The very first question that gets asked to an aspirant in MBA personal interviews is “Why MBA?”. So we prepare answer to the question. I hated preparing answer to that question. That is because I didn’t want to do MBA in the first place.
I wanted whatever I am going to do – to happen than that’s something I should make happen. I am a person born with three elder sisters. Women are not good in making small decisions. So, even I, a person born with three sisters was not good in making decisions. I don’t like making decisions.
MBA is all about making decisions. I like solving problems. Problem solving is a huge field and making decisions is another huge field – They both are not related to each other. My professor mr. PRS gave me 32 out of 100 in a IIT preparatory test. Though that is less, I was the highest among the people of our school. That is how I came to like mathematics.
I did not have enough money to do MBA. And hence I wanted to cry in front of my mother who was trying to make me join in an MBA course. My mother became more and more sad as each and everyone of my attempts were going in vain.
I got seat in a college in Chennai, one of the best colleges to study MBA, but I went to college the first day and I came off the next day. I went to the college the second day, but I came in between since I did not like being there. One of the professors I had known already came to that college as well.. since I did not feel like staying there.
She passed away in 2019 along with my father. My father passed away in 2019 January and she passed in 2019 November. Since both of them passed in the same year, I became very very sad. I was put in a rehab in order to quit smoking during the days that my mother passed away.
I wasn’t even called by my sisters to view my mothers death. My mother must have told that it would be hard for him to tolerate and hence I was not invited to home during my mothers death. Only after about a week did all my relatives came to the rehab and told me that my mother passed away.
Money is an important factor in decisions. If we have a lot of money, we can pursue these MBA courses in joy. I understood that I was in the decision making spot, and I shouldn’t spend money. I worked as a software engineer for two years before I thought about joining MBA.
I gave all that money to my parents while I was working as a software engineer. So when I was asked by B schools to give money I did not have a penny to spend. Money makes many things – they say. It is quite true.