2019 - Surprises

 2019 - A year of Surprise.

October 12, is quite important for me. My first public meeting as a presenter. My topic of presentation was "How to Unleash your potential" to the students of PG students in Pondicherry University.

My preparation was just the previous night with 3 coloured pens on A4 sheets of paper. A blue note for the topic and clues, red for the explanations, green for the examples, stories, experiences.

I did not get much interactions from the audience. I was very passive in this seminar. There was a background slide with just few bullet points and then I run through my commentary. I was certainly not reading out the slides.

One question came from the audience was - "How to have a good attitude". I responded with few examples to explain that there is nothing that mean a right or wrong attitude. You should know what type of attitude match with the required situation. One of the examples I used was breaking a coconut before starting a good thing - symbolically breaking our ego before we do anything. 

I now know, that of all the topic I presented this one question and it's answer could go on and on and could explain to an audience who are looking forward to start their career. Because it is one of the most important thing.

The October also gave another surprise. A call from the past. However today I feel that, sometimes we should  live in memories and hope instead of brutal truth or reality.

2019 is done.