A line to remember...

In mid last week, when my two yr old niece was home and narrating all characters names looking at my huge f.r.i.e.n.d.s poster in my room, I got a call from random number asking me to attend a celebrity workshop! First checking on the hidden costs and then on the celebrities, I happen to check on the topic too. Lady replied saying “it’s on creativity!” Now that pulled me in right away as Creativity is my second most favorite word after ‘Resplendent’! (Ya…check the meaning folks...i too did recently;)

As it was a red tie event, I went in casually and having no problems in talking to people, made some friends besides whom I was suppose to be seated and soon realizing my complimentary invite was a gold class ticket which was worth 5K!!Hmmm having always liked surprises in my life, I loved this one!!

First, ‘Pritish Nair’ came in with whooping energy! Pritish is a phenomenal Corporate Trainer who organized the Workshop. With his amazing PR skills, he did a genuine justice to the innovative ice breaking session equipped with lot of fun! He was soon followed by ‘Rahul Bose’ who is an eminent Bollywood Actor, Director, Social Activist and plays Rugby I believe. A very passionate celeb on his NGO work and as he was speaking about it and the moral compass, our audience got enthralled and utilized his allotted time pouring questions on the same till the clock buzzed! I admire Rahul for his creativity and perhaps he was one of the prime reasons for me to attend the workshop and, I couldn’t believe that it had gotten faded that soon without me getting benefited!!!

Rahul was followed by one more Astounding and Impeccable speaker about whom I wish to talk about more. Before that, let me slip it to you about ‘Chetan Bhagat’ who came in at the end after dining. Now Chetan is a blockbuster guy so, whatever he talks will keep you alive! I face problems with his overrated books which bores me easily and apparently found him boring in person too. So I shall skip talking about him in this space.

Now, the Astounding speaker I was referring to earlier indeed came in like a spiced up patty in the snack who is a total entertainer, the Ad Guru of India- the famous ‘Prahalad kakkar’ currently in issues with Abhishek Bachan;) Although comparatively more aged than other speakers, mentally the man hasn’t aged at all. His looks were complimenting his creativity. He spoke what he has been called for and perhaps the only thing he knows is- ‘Creativity’! His talks were as spontaneous and adventurous as a rollercoaster ride. He started subtle but gradually went in to a gregarious mode pulling the crowd together with his pissed off language! The uncle next to me sure dint like him and probably fretted at me too coz I was enjoying Prahalad’s talks to the rim. I sure did :)

Prahalad poured his insane experiences on us, showed us some amazing ad films and was philanthropic enough in ledgering us the insights of life in his jovial way! At one point, he mentioned that it’s always difficult to do what we want to do or what we dream to do and the reason being- its god damn tough!! It rips you apart! It’s like bruising yourself and torturing yourself and yet one should be prepared not to come back!! While he was on with these pointers, one of our audience friends asked him a qn- “if we get on to all that we want to do, who will pay our bills?” for which my friends, Prahalad mentioned something and that’s the line to remember whenever required for you not just in this context but in general too! I will keep it unexplained and leave it to you to take a moment and ponder over and understand…! Well, here is what Prahalad answered and indeed it’s a line to remember…

“My friend, every tiny thing in life depends either on ‘lack of belief- OR- tremendous belief’ and you don’t give me a shit of hanging in b/n!”

Signing off for now,

Achu