Toldya!!!

....I'd always get what I want.
No more worries for the rest of mah engineering...its all been taken care of ;)

Well... Being in the right place at the right time does help....but one needs to have the right attitude and the right acumen to see what else is possible in the given situation.

Its a matter of thinking coldly and objectively cutting out all the riff raff.

The right place, the right work , the right people, the right opportunities.....and thats the circle of success(as I love to call it)....:D

It takes some time to get adjusted to it though...because for sometime you might be alone in that circle before people start beginning to want to connect to you.
I know this is really weird... but ever since I was a kid I always wanted to be the one who was sought after... not the one who was seeking. This attitude of mine even went as far as not taking autographs of famous people like most of my other friends did when a filmstar or a musician came to town. Hell....I wouldnt even want A R Rahman's autograph!
I remember .....all through school and college, it was always very important for me to never suppress something in me that I thought was good just for the sake of falling in with the crowd or being able to mingle more with people of my age group. Of course initially people do find that a little stand-offish but I have always got long term gains in the end as compared to some of my other counterparts who manage to foster a large number of relationships in a relatively lesser amount of time but are unable to handle all of them equally well. So I am convinced that it works!It has helped me to a great extent because simply by virtue of being what I really wanted to be and loved to be, I ended up having a lot more friends than I imagined I ever would.Also since I dont believe in networking simply for the sake of professional help(the personal touch is always better), I happen to share very beautiful relationships with a lot of people. I am not a very extroverted person, but some characteristics which set me apart from the others were always responsible for fostering interactions with people who were just curious to know why I was the way I was....or am the way I am!

Well...people have different ways of functioning and building professional contacts that might help them later on. I dont believe in networking with a vengeance. But the things I do and the people I meet coz of the things I do, lead me do pursue other interests and excel in those too(if I like them that is :D) and then meet other people....well thats how it works for me.

We all find our ways of fitting in to this world when we get out of the protective cocoon of our families....my way is by standing out! hehe!