Page 101 - Failure to Triumph - Journey of A Student

house is not good. Let me tell you that there are a lot of people who
do not have right atmosphere in their houses. The right atmosphere
does not only mean that people in the house live in harmony and

friendliness and there is ample love between the family members. A
good atmosphere also means that you have a perfect study
environment where nobody disturbs you.

Those who live in joint families say that they do not have a perfect
study environment because elders in the family are always at each
other’s throats. And those in nuclear families complain that either the
road beside their house is too noisy or they have to attend or take

care of a sick family member. It is common that parents either
compare between their children or between cousins. Parents tend to
impose their thoughts on us and try to control our lives and choices.
This holds true in both joint and nuclear family. It is very clear that
neither the one in a joint family nor the one in a nuclear family has a

perfect environment. There is no end to our wishes. As the old
proverb goes, “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”; Our
mind is very agile and it is always thinking about more pleasant
possibilities. But we have to make the best of what we have.

I will give you my own example: my house is very close to the airport
and there is a flight taking off or landing in every five minutes.

Whenever an airplane flies by my house, there is so much noise that
it gets recorded in my recordings. Hence, I face a lot of trouble while
recording—I have to stop several times while speaking, a lot of times
my series of thoughts get disturbed, and I am forced to record again.
I also have edit out the noise coming from the airplanes, and
sometimes this editing process consumes more than two hours. But

despite all this, I handle everything calmly and comfortably, because
I know that there cannot be anything like a perfect environment.
First of all, I had to accept my surrounding and make peace with it. If
I get angry, I will harm none but myself. I use thermocol sheets on
my windows for noise reduction and sound proofing. I have also
started using a specific type of microphone which records only my
voice and not the outside noise. I also observed that there are more

flights during daytime, so I started doing my recording work during