What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger

The past year has been the most stressful year of my life. I am on that stage of life when everyone is desperately looking for the purpose of their life, finding something that gives meaning to their existence and obviously something that they cherish most; yep I am talking about finding a job. In this competitive world finding the right place for you to work as a slave is not a very easy task. We literally beg for slavery and cry when a company rejects us and grants us our freedom.

Anyhow, let me share with you my experience of looking for a job. There were a ton of companies that rejected me because I lacked the most necessary skill every individual must possess; I just could not figure out how a person A is related to another person B if A is as old as B at the present at the time of his birth. This is a very important phenomenon to know, you can survive on this planet if you don’t know all the infinity stones but if you are unaware of these problems, then oh boy you are done! Finished! Not worthy of living on this planet anymore!

There is a company XYZ also known as my dream company, well not my dream company but a subset of my dream companies and the companies I could actually reach. So, this dream company was the horizon where the dream world ends and reality begins. XYZ actually got me through its screening and test making me worthy to appear for its interview. I was elated, anxious, nervous and scared at the same time, getting through XYZ was do or die, it was my only shot at my long pending success. I burned the midnight oil studying for it, to be frank, I had been studying for XYZ from the past couple of days because of my obvious desperation to get through. I talked to my sister that today is the day for my solace and she said to get through XYZ or don’t come home. It surprisingly motivated me.

The day began with extremely educated and high-ranking people from XYZ visiting my campus. I was both inspired and intimidated, I wanted to be like them instantly imagined my future as one of them. I traveled to another world while they were still speaking about their company thinking that yeah! I will see you their man and we will talk like pals, eating, drinking, being close to each other (OK I don’t know what people do in offices, I am explaining a marriage I guess). Anyhow, I had butterflies, it’s weird how I get butterflies for jobs and not guys, Is it normal? Moving on, I was extra cautious for my first interview, spoke like Mark Antony, my words were like that of Shakespeare lovely, poetic and mostly exaggerated. Not to my surprise, I got through, then came the second interview and a third interview. I was as poetic as I could be, but the senior guy in the second interview was not a fan of Shakespeare, he expected me to direct, precise and correct which was so surprising for me, Correct answer in an interview, come on! I have seen a tonne of interview preparation videos and the only takeaway was to be as off-topic as you could be, for example, if they ask you what is your weakness, you NEVER TELL THEM YOUR RELEVANT WEAKNESS. The acceptable answers are “I am a very organized person but my biggest weakness is that I have never climbed Mount Everest” or “I am always extra vigilant while doing my tasks but my biggest weakness is that I got bitten by a shark once”.

Anyway, I gave the interviews, they weren’t that bad but they weren’t the best however I had hope because hope is a bitchy bug that clings to you until you are not declared relinquished (it is a fancy word for loose). Then came the moment of my life that changed my future, for good or for bad only the time travelers know, I didn’t get through. It was a weird moment for me I was just blank and didn’t know what I was experiencing, I was more embarrassed than sad (probably because I let down some important people in my life). I did not do, I did not die. There is no such thing as Do or Die, the most important lesson I learned that day was that I did not get something I desperately wanted and it DID NOT KILL ME; I think it made me stronger and more aware, aware of the fact that I am stronger than I believe. I knew whatever I get now would be much less awesome than XYZ. If this rejection couldn’t break me nothing can! Sometimes in life, we want something badly, desperately and more than anything and we might not get it and its fine. I did go home that day and without being selected and my sister did not love me less.