A wonderful speech by Bill Gates.

He talks about how feel-good,politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Once there was a story teller named Charlie Chaplin. He made us laugh and most of us remember him today for making the funniest movies in history. But under all this lied a great philosopher. A person who always though ahead of time. A person who strived to bring peace in this world. His work touched a lot of hearts. This speech is one of his masterworks. He wrote this in 1938 for World War 2. But this speech is soo apt for today's situation.

"Look up Hanna"

Final Speech of "The Great Dictator" by Charlie Chaplin
Written and delivered by Sir Charles Chaplin

General Schulz: Speak - it is our only hope.

The Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin): I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men---machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.

Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

[Huge hurray from the huge crowd – scene changes to Hanna (Paulette Goddard) a refugee on the floor with eyes still in tears from having been beaten down by the Dictator’s soldiers. Romantic string music in the background. Hanna’s beautiful face and eyes are in awe as to how her Jewish barber friend who was imprisoned by the Dictator’s troops is not speaking as the Great Dictator!]

Hanna, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hanna! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kind new world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hanna! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow. Into the light of hope! Into the future! The glorious future! That belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, Hanna! Look up!

Hanna's Father: Hanna! Did you hear that?

Hanna: Listen! [as her great acting and incredible cinematography turns her face into a goddess as the music takes the movie to conclusion.]

Part 1: The Beginning



I have always wondered if you can choose your destiny or destiny chooses you. And what i have learned that whatever happens, its just the same. I pictured myself as a rebel; I always lived for my dreams. Like a normal person, I dream to be happy, to be successful and to be famous. I don’t think that’s too much to ask if i am willing to make a honest effort towards getting there. I wanted these things because I wanted to make everyone around me proud of who I am. My mom always made me believe that I am special and my dad always taught me not to listen to anyone when they say "This is difficult kid.. you cant do it".




I know I can’t be a great man. Not because I am scared to make a effort. But because i dont have a screwed childhood. All great men have stories to tell how they came out of poor misery and shot to the top of rank. Well.. I don’t have any stories like that. I am an over pampered spoilt brat. Being the smallest member of my family, I was always protected from all the soo called evils in the world. My parents always gave me everything that they could. My brother always made sure i never falter in anything and always shielded me from bad company. Not that they chose my friends for me but they always made sure I knew which crowd to hang out with. I was always very demanding as a kid. I wanted everything. And everyone around me worked hard to make that happen. So, to be precise, I had a nice childhood with lots of good friends and lots of fun.




But somewhere in all this wonderful dream world I was a part of. I started to find that vacuum. Getting everything always meant that I was working one step closer towards losing myself. Every time I was falling down, there was someone to catch me. Every time I cried, someone would wipe the tears off my face. And I had started to enjoy it. I realized that I was taking everything for granted. I was afraid of the fact that there will be a day when I would have to make a effort of getting things I asked for. As I was growing up, everyone was expecting me to stand up for myself and fight for my dreams. But there was a small problem. I didn’t know how to do that.




I couldn’t talk about this to anyone because everyone loved me so much and it would have hurt them if they knew I was insecure about their love. So I kept those feelings to myself. I wanted to show the world that I was as smart and as intelligent as anyone. I never wanted people to look down and say, this is the guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and never had to work hard to get anything. I was fighting to find my identity. I wanted to feel challenged. I started thinking of being a scientist. Computers always fascinated me. But getting everyone to believe in me was difficult. And then my father said to me one day," I think its good that you want to be a scientist. But you know kid, its difficult for you to do it." And that was the day i realized which was the best gift my parents could have ever given me. I had started to believe in myself. I just smiled and said.. "Dad.. I am not going to listen to you. Coz, you have taught me not to let anyone tells me that it is difficult for me to do it." He knew I was not his small kid any more. And I knew that for the first time in my life, I was standing up for what I believed in.



I was standing up for my dreams now. Success was my only option from now on. Everyone who had always held my hand and led me to this position were finally happy that I was standing up on my own feet. Now they no longer held the control of my life but were sitting in my corner cheering for what i was doing.



I think that was the time when a geek was born inside me. He was my brainchild. I nurtured him inside me. I was a spoilt brat for a lot of years and made fun of everyone who acted like nerds. But it was time to get serious.. It was time to get GEEKY....



This is my story. A story of the life of a GEEK. It was not easy to be called a geek. It took me loads of hard work and patience to be where I am. I am going to tell you about a fascaniting story of a geek. Now the question is why you should listen to my story. This is not just my story. This is a story of what we all have within us. Some of us are so scared of it that we never let our geeky side out. And some of us are lazy enough not to nurture their geeky side. But there are times in our lives when we work very hard for what we want. We block our mind from all the other things around and start living for the knowledge we care for the most. That’s when the world thinks you are nerd, boring and what they call in technical terms “A GEEK”.



(to be continued)