Dear Friends,

Here is an inspiring story to touch our hearts and empower our dreams.

Rajender Raina is a friend and facilitator. He also invited me to meet / share

some teachings with his students at Sadhana Center (SCMLD). So I have probably met

this student who has shared his story below. And amazingly enough I also did

a session for Karthik and his troupe in Chennai. So I feel strangely connected

to this story. Enough said...enjoy Abhishek's story below.

Peace,

Nithya

 

 

 

On 05/23/08, rajinder raina <rajinderraina@...> wrote:
> My dear friends and teachers,
> I had been wondering why people in the teaching community are always so
> energetic and happy even though their compensations are meagre....i guess i
> have got the answer...such letters (as below) do compensate for a lot of
> things...
> My purpose of sharing it with you all is three fold...
> One, to thank all of you for teaching me, for being my gurus at various
> points of time (it is what i learnt from you that i carry to my classroom)
> and
> Two, to let some of the youngesters know that money follows passion and
> RARELY the other way!!! and
> Three,to let some of you know what exactly does systems thinking do to a
> young man and why do we need to teach it...
> Thank you all once again....
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: abhishek thapar <abbu1985@...>
> Date: May 22, 2008 2:19 PM
> Subject: Thank you sir!!!
> To: rajinderraina@...
>
>
> Dear sir,
>             I am Abhishek Thapar student of SCMLD,Pune (2007-2009)batch i am
> doing my summer internship in a theatre company in Chennai Evam
> Entertainment Pvt Ltd.
>             Sir i just want to thank you for teaching us such a wonderful
> subject which has changed my life.I have a great passion for theatre and
> have been into theatre for last 10 years but my parents were
> never comfortable with me doing theatre.so i never pursued it with such
> passion,but after you taught us system thinking in the 2nd trimester  about
> the universe purpose and your purpose and joy ,ease and grace it has changed
> my life .i am not sure but i think i have found universe's purpose for me.
>
> The story begins with me pitching for summer internship in different
> companies when i read an article about two entrepreneurs in Chennai who did
> there MBA from MICA and started there own theatre company call Evam
> Entertainment Pvt Ltd .i really got kicked off by this company ,so i decided
> to do my summer project in this organization.I told this to my batch mates
> they started laughing at me that i want to go into a theatre company ,but i
> was so passionate that i knew that this is the company i want to work ,so i
> called up the director Karthik Kumar and talked to him and then i flew
>  to Chennai to meet him and i got my project and when i came back and asked
> permission from Prof Pilla to do my summer project with Evam Entertainment
>  he refused but i told him that i really wanna work here and this is the
> place i deeply desire to be, after a week he agreed ,i was so happy that i
> am following my passion ,my dream. When i got my stipend details i was
> shocked that i was getting the highest stipend in college that is Rs 12500
> per month ,everyone was shocked ,that day i recalled your words that when
> really want to do something and when u actually do it money becomes a
> byproduct,every one was shocked because theatre company or a theatre group
> are always into losses and they can never make money .when i came to Chennai
> and started with my project i realised that Karthik Kumar ans sunil Vishnu
> are following there dreams and they are not creating money but creating
> wealth and money is a byproduct .
>
> Now when i talk to my batch mates about their summer project they say its
> boring and not good and not excited but i just don't feel like coming back
> home from my office and i wanna work on Sundays too:).
>
> The movie The Secret has really changed the way i think ,we did a show in
> Hyderabad "The Odd Couple" and the sales were not  much only 500 tickets for
> 2 show and we expected around 700.Just before the show at 8.30 am i just
> wrote a note thanking to my friends who helped in selling tickets and a
> wrote to them that we expected 700 people and 1000 people came for the show
> and saved it in my comp .i just had no clue that where this 300 people will
> come from ,how they gonna come from .When the show begin there were actually
> 1300 people who came for the show.now i remember "Thought become things"
>
> now i have decided that i will work in an event management company for 2
> years ,get good experience and then start my own theatre company because
> that is what makes me happy and i know that money will be a by product
>
> i am attaching a file(the logo) of my dream company its called the "Happy
> Bee" ,the concept is that this bee will spreed happiness all over where ever
> it goes and making people happy by producing fun and comedy plays.I am
> sending you this because you taught us how to dream and how to fulfill your
> dreams
> Thank you so much for being such a wonderful teacher.
> Regards ,
> Abhishek Thapar
> For
> Evam Entertainment Pvt Ltd
> www.evam.in
>

--
The perfect creative stance is
satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more.
- Abe-Hicks