Reality Check

Where I am right now?
I am 24, Single, working in a software company (like thousands other in Bangalore). So what does differentiate me from the rest? or am I just 'Another brick in the wall'
I have been doing some thinking about my career and personal goals lately, primarily because I thought MBA was a good option for me, and hence I decided to apply for Best B-schools. So one of things I needed to figure out was where I was going and how I plan to get there.
Past few months have been with their ups and downs. With the hectic work load, I still managed a decent preparation for 'CAT' but didn't write it that well. I did do considerably better in my other exams. However when results came out, one thing was clear - IIMs were out, I had to settle for the 2nd best now. I got SP Jain call and I thought I did okay but was kicked out in Round -1. (Still trying to figure out that one). All is not lost, I still have two more calls from VGSOM(IITKGP) and XIMB(Ranked 15th and 10th in India according to BW)
However I have been asking myself on why I should settle for second best. I am confident that I can make it to the IIMs if I write again next year or even try for an US MBA. The logistics and Financial constraints for a Foreign MBA do pose a huge challenge and this had left me in a dilemma.
Now, after couple of weeks of hard thinking and turmoil, I am more or less certain that I am upto the challenge for a foreign MBA. Life is all about taking risk isn't it? If I do not venture, what will I discover!
Hence I am writing this blog instead of preparing for the interviews coming up next week.
I do plan to attend the Interviews and hopefully clear them (Just in case I change my mind or something else comes up that compels me to take up these offers)
I know that many students from India have made it to US B-schools, I mean the best ones like Harvard and Stanford, but something tells me that this doesnt make it any easier for me. Actually I somehow relate to 'Green days' latest song, which goes -

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Don't know where it goes

But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street

On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Where the city sleeps

and I'm the only one and I walk alone

"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" by Green day.