TOUGHness

Tough, strong, or endurance, call it what you want to. There's a saying which goes, Tough Times Don't Last, Tough People Do. Advisors and Philosophers, they are plenty in number. At times, I have acted like one. These philosophies and advises are for free. May be that's why we don't value them much. Someone has rightly said that what you get through hard work is much valueable; may be that's why we don't take things for free.

We often take people for granted just because they love and care too much for us. It is just now that I experienced this fact; when I was at the transmitting end. Just transmit too much of your caring signal and you are sure it will be filtered out as NOISE. You have to take into consideration the bandwidth constraint of the other person and design the system such that you strike the right balance. The system should work at optimal level and right at the designed operating point. If you don't do so, your signal will get either attenuated or rejected or filtered out as noise.

Till the time you are happy, the entire world is happy; atleast it looks that way as if you are masking it to your needs. But when you are sad, frustated, depressed, lonely.....its when your eyes really open. You see the yourself as a device which is wrongly soldered in the circuit; a device which should have been connected somewhere else. You don't have an option but to keep operating at your sub-optimal levels. Sometimes, the situation is so bad that you feel like burning out and just thrown out of the circuit. And its then that you are really born.

All said and done, you have to face everything with a brave face; you have no other option because you have no one there to lend you a hand and even if there is one, he/she won't due to reasons unkown.