Anecdote #17

After the completion of my first term examinations, I took up a new hobby. I participated in a Model United Nations Conference, abbreviation being MUN conducted by Modern School. I had participated in one before but was not very sure if it was for me. At Modern school the experience turned out to be very enriching as I was in the company of very knowledgeable people who were moreover more forthcoming than those I had encountered the previous time. The fun was accompanied with a lot of fatigue but somewhere I felt that I found something that stimulated me and was eager to participate in more of these conferences.
Fast forward to a month. My fourth MUN at Birla Vidya Niketan. I was not at all prepared and I started to panic. It was a double delegation so I called my co delegate that and said that I was not in the right frame of mind to go for this. When I was talking to him I realised that he was being very accommodating and understanding and it would be very selfish of me to not even try. I changed my mind and decided to go for it. The next day after the completion of the proceedings I had to accompany my grandmother to a wedding. I could back out to carry on with the research but I decided to be at her side.When I reached there I instantly knew that I was right . The warmth and love I received from the people there is indescribable. My grandmother was elated that I was right by her side and couldn't stop singing praises about me. The next day, I had to face the fire of the MUN. This day was the toughest of all. My partner and I had to work together to solve a perplexing crisis pertaining to narcotics with an interesting mix of bollywood, which added a touch of drama. It was basically a hypothetical situation where a bollywood actor had been caught with drugs and we had to analyse and examine that situation. That day we were proclaimed to have given the best speech and the following day we won an award.
This entire affair taught me two things, firstly that I should never give up because a little faith measures more in the face of surrender and secondly that we need to be more considerate. In this fast paced world where we face the paucity of time our world centres around us as individuals. That should not be be the case. We need to at the least try to put ourselves in the other person's shoes and then think. Our lives are greatly interlinked, more than we know and in this context this idea of me must change into we.