Hello friends today I am going to write about my encounter with our honorable x-precedent Dr. A.P.J Abdul kalam. Yes friends I am not lying. I really met him. You know? He had come here at my city Amravati (Maharashtra) to address the student at national-level techfest named 'Technolon'. Program was to be conducted in Zilha stadium-Amravati what is 15 Km far from my hostel, so today I woke up early in morning at 8 am ( hahaha… It’s early for me) then I got ready within next 1 hour, up to 9 am I put my first step out of my hostel. Though I woke up early in morning, it was too late to go there because I should had to reach there up to 9:30 Am..But let it be I got bus on right time, When I reached near stadium, I was surprised to see crowd of students.. Hey believe me there was Q of students up to almost half Km, previously I was such late to reach there. So I was thinking now what to do.. How to go in stadium.. What if I couldn’t go in stadium? I was too nervous due to this rush of students… But ya, at the same time I was thinking some unconventional ways (Being an IT student...ha ha) to go in stadium and suddenly my friend spoke hey let’s try to convince student in front side of that Q. I agreed but was hesitating to do it. So my friend himself tried to do it... And I don’t know how that guy agreed to let us stand in that Q. After few minutes we were in stadium... Voilla..!! I had won almost half race… I was in, Feeling like a heaven. .
Now we were waiting for our ideal... as the time was passing our excitement towards him was increasing and crowd in ground was also getting doubled, after each few minutes. And finally a full stop came to our waiting, and he arrived at ground. A man who was more than 83 year old, attracted more than 30,000 (Thirty thousand) students was on ground. We were too much thirsty but his arrival made us to forget it..Some strange feeling was making my blood to flow with double speed.. There was too much noise on ground but I think my ears were tuned to listen only one voice which was of frequency of Dr. Kalam. He started to address students with one sentence “Hello India”
Dr Kalam discussed about vision 2020, and how we can make it true, he encouraged the students to try their luck in politics to make it pure and corruption free. While discussing all these things he suddenly asked a question to student do you want to be unique person or a person like ordinary people? Most of the students replied him “Yes, we want to be unique person”, Dr. Kalam said “yes, it’s the point I want to tell you..if you all want to be unique then why all of you students are studying and behaving like ordinary people. If you want to do something different then you will have to think differently,” Dr. Kalam then turned his discursion to successful person, or how to become like himAccording to Dr. Kalam..To become successful person we must follow following four points
- We must have our AIM up to age of 20 [AT least we should know filed of our carrier]
- We must acquire knowledge of our field as much as we can..
- We must do hard working
- Don’t fear to problems
- Small AIM is big offense
One point which I liked at his speech is “why students thinks that their hands are to just beg for jobs why don’t they think their hands to give jobs to others” really if student will think in this attitude they can be somewhere else..
Finally at last section of his speech he told students to speak as he is speaking… means to utter each of his sentences.. He said
“ I am the good citizen of India, I will never support corruption. “
“I will be the good member of my family”
“I will be the responsible citizen of society”
“I will be the good person of our nation”
“I will be good person of this world”
After taking this pledge from students many students were thinking to ask few questions to Dr. kalam but before arrival of any question he said “if somebody wants to ask anything to me he/she may contact me at my email ID apj@abdulkalam.com” each question will get answered
So..Finally Dr. kalam’s session got completed and I was still thirsty but this time not for water, indeed this time I was thirsty to listen him once more or for more time. There were more than many people who were thirsty for same.
Students had started to think.. Many questions were in minds of students-“how can we change India” many students were looking too much confident. Thinking doesn’t bring change but it is first step towards change..Isn’t? I really realized Speed of thoughts is really more than speed of light…
Written By Ashish Dandgawhale
