'VISA'va...

Planning on doing an MS right when I was studying BE, maintaining that focus (huh..) for two years inspite of the work freak that I was (my family would explain better...but I would rather not remind them), applying for MS during the last year at work and getting an admit from a good school like Georgia Tech...all seemed perfectly on track...no wonder "expectations" (my bad...) went spiralling...that the road ahead would be smooth....but that would make a boring Bollywood flick right?...so enters the visa reject....the high rises of expectations coming smashing down to the floor.

Then follow two weeks of ultimate turmoil- reapplication, reforming answers and most importantly avalanche negativity, looking at admits passing by you making you wonder - well, I said the same things and yet you won't approve me...visualizing  yourself scrapping all plans and replanning everything back from scratch, identifying the disappointment in your mom's eyes as she tries to hide it.......and enter the saviours...friends, family all with their ideas, suggestions, sometimes unappealing but mostly helpful and boosting spirits...

Cut to the day of the retry...your mind playing games with you showing you two movies in time-multiplexed manner...with approval, w/o approval with auto-repeat involuntarily on. Finally it starts, things go well and your visa is approved...happiness repollinating throughout the brain and then all disappointing memories of the past weeks start to fade away...as if it was hardly anything and happiness was always  in continuum...but that's just the first 5 mins of a bigger movie which is yet to be fully played out...Surprises await you...

Anyways, I would like to take this blog post as an opportunity to thank all the friends who helped me through this, grateful to my family who stood by me, kept pointing out my mistakes time and again and finally Him for giving this overall experience.