Some staggered thoughts

Some days back I was reading a famous speech by Steve Jobes ,CEO of APPLE , which he delivered as commencement address in a University on June 12 , 2005.
I felt after reading this, that nothing has shaken me as vigorously as this piece of text. I don't remember exactly as how many times I have read that speech . But I know for sure that this was something that my ears were expecting to here
for a long time .

The central idea of the speech is something about 'Doing what you really love'.
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says...

Here are some lines which I found striking,(I am sorry that it will be difficult to make out anyhting without the complete text...)

"you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

"It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly
important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Well , It raised several questions in my mind..
Number one ..
1) Am I doing something which I really love ?
Number Two..
2) Will I have the guts to follow my heart in the future ?

Happily, I found the answers to these questions as positive.

I am certainly doing something which I really enjoys. I still gets excited at the topics from my subject Computer science and Engineering..so no regrets in that regard, But I am disappointed at the way the whole academic drama is scripted. I feel that I am a very bad actor in this play. But once freed from the thought of GPA ,then its a wonderful experience..the joy of learning, the ecstasy of experimenting..And of late I have build the courage to do only those which I really loves..The consequences are sure to be felt in the coming end sem results...But truly I dont care . Kishore once said "Dont rely on your GPA , but on your skill and knowledge to get a job " , and I liked it.


Answer to the second question requires a lot more thoughts and I would like time to answer it...

Signing Off
RK