Lessons to learn from Bhagat Singh's life

Shashikant S Kulkarni (shashi1605@gmail.com)

 Be your own person

Be your own person. Don't follow the crowd

just because they believe they're going in the
right direction. Bhagat Singh could've well
taken the beaten path. He didn't. That's one of
the reasons why we're even talking about him
80 years after his death!
 Find a purpose in life

Remember the time you were asked in that job interview about where you see
yourself in the next five years?
That's the interviewer wanting to know if you have a purpose in your life. So ask
yourself this question too.
For his age, Bhagat Singh knew precisely what he wanted out of life and got it. Not
too much to ask of oneself either no?
 Follow that purpose with passion

To what extent can you go to achieve your goal?

Can you go hungry for days or stay sleep deprived for hours to meet your aim?
How persistent are you following up on the targets you've set for yourself -- they
could be as simple as losing weight or getting to a certain point in your career.

Learn to go the whole hog, struggle and fight because there is pretty much
no other way to be successful.
Procreation isn't the only thing you're born to do

Bhagat Singh never got married. He never had children either.

As difficult as it might be to believe, there is much more in life than to getting
married and birthing children.
Adopt a child rather than have one of your own. We are a country of a
heck of a lot of children. Adding another one to the population isn't
helping anyone!
 Go beyond 140 characters and Read.

If some estimates are to be believed, Bhagat Singh is said to have read about
300 books while he was imprisoned from April 8, 1929, to March 23, 1931.
Popular accounts also tell us that up until moments before he was to be
executed, he was reading Lenin and asked the executioners to wait till he
finished the book.
 Take up a Social Cause

Giving back is the new black!

So jump on the bandwagon and do something for the country that has
done so much for you.
Little things matter much -- adopt a stray, visit a children's home, visit
your ageing neighbours. Really, it isn't very difficult.