My Fantastic Failure by Sid Upadhyaya & Shreya Upadhyaya

Author:Sid Upadhyaya & Shreya Upadhyaya [Upadhyaya, Sid & Upadhyaya, Shreya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mobilism
Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors
Published: 2015-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Goodbye Bangalore

The last night at the most happening house of HSR layout was very dull. We were the last ones to leave the house. Harsh and Rajat had left for Delhi. Anupam and Aditya had moved to a new house nearby. Eventually, the house which once was bursting with life stood barren with empty rooms, missing curtains on windows, old mattresses lying toppled up in corners, old plastic buckets with soap dishes and empty shampoo bottles in the bathroom.

We had also sent all our things with the movers and packers a day before. Now left with just two cabin bags and two check-in bags, which we were to carry with us in the flight next morning, we spent the day like a traveller in our own house using the things from our packed bags and putting them back again.

When we had nothing to do sitting inside the house at around 11 pm, we decided to take one last walk outside our house.

Our gang of dogs was happy to see us out at this hour and joined us. They walked by our side as we took repeated nostalgic rounds of the dimly-lit street. Half of the sodium bulbs were conked out but no one bothered about the maintenance.

“What do you think about our stay at Bangalore?” Sid asked me.

“It has been an incredible experience,” I said. “As we discussed the other day, it’s been a tremendous learning experience at both personal and professional fronts, which includes education, inception of ideas, direction for entrepreneurship, friends for lifetime, courage to dare – the list is endless.”

“True, but what do you have to say about the things which didn’t happen? I mean, I agree we are happy with what all happened. It’s been an experience. But wasn’t life a little harsh to throw innumerable rejections at us?” Sid said.

“This reminds me of one of the interviews of Mr Amitabh Bachchan where a journalist asked him – So, what’s the most terrible truth in Bachchan’s life and how has he dealt with it? Without dwelling on specifics, he quoted a line from his father’s work: ‘Mann ka ho toh achcha, na ho toh zyada achcha’. It’s good if some things happen according to your wish. But if they don’t happen, then it’s all the more better because then what happens is according to the wish of God. And God always wishes the best for you. We just need to do our duty and leave it at that.”

Sid smiled after I finished answering his question. I hoped I had answered his question.

Mann ka ho toh achcha, na ho toh zyada achcha.

– Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan

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