akrish

Wow it’s been awhile. but i seem to say that every time so lets just get to the good stuff.

Vivek’s been blogging a lot recently. I just looked at my facebook wall and he wrote to me about how he was disappointed that I haven’t written anything in a really long time. Weird that my first reaction was “apple+T, f6, www.akrish.net” and here I am writing something literally a minute after I read his post. I find it really strange that just a little motivation from a friend gets me to restart blogging, when I’ve been meaning to restart for so many months now.

But I guess that’s not the whole story. I’ve been meaning to write in here for a while now yes, but recently I’ve been looking at it more thinking about things I’d like to write about. What Vivek’s post really did was give me an interesting topic to write about and as I’m writing I’m noticing more and more examples all the time. Like how there’s no way I’d be running/exercising as much as I have been for the last couple of weeks without the pushing from Ravi and Arvind (and more recently Amit). And how hearing about what the other interns at work have been doing makes me want to work harder and finish what I’m doing so I can “compete” with them. Or how even some random guy at the gym can motivate me to bench more than I’ve ever benched before.

What I realized is that my mind is often getting me to not do my best (or stop early, or go slower or whatever) and other people are there to tell that voice in my head to screw off and they’re the ones that actually make me excel. Without these people, I’d probably still be doing a lot of what I’m doing, but I’d be half-assing most of it. Like during this spring semester, I ended up running a lot, but my runs were never that good. Now that I’m running with others I finish almost every run thinking “man that was a good run.”

But without them there are definitely things I wouldn’t be doing either that I’m happy that I’m doing. Case in point writing this blog. So to all my friends and others who push me (definitely my family) thanks for doing it and please keep it up because it’s like The Beatles say “I get by with a little help from my friends.”