The fourth idly!
Here is a story I read long time back and I keep repeating it to my wife as 'The fourth idly'. Two friends met over a breakfast. One of them is very hungry and orders 2 idlies. He hogs it but that does not fulfill his stomach. So he orders couple of more delicious idlies. He finds that he is full after the fourth idly. Suddenly he thinks what if I had the fourth idly first. Wouldn't that one (the fourth one) idly filled my stomach? You might call it as naive but a beautiful message is hidden in this story. Those first three idlies that he ate are the foundation which made him full once he completes the fourth one. Bottom line of this story is we need to go thru the process rather than just the end result. It has occurred to me that couldn't I have had done this degree or certification earlier in my life, wouldn't that have made me successful or better prepared? Looks to me that the dots I am trying to connect had not reached to the...