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Three days to go and the campaign goes live!

Tracey:  

When the unknown

Takes you for a ride,

Even the failures

Make you feel alive.

Persistence becomes 

Your strongest suit,

And optimism puts 

An end to the pursuit.

Our campaign went live today. I was just about overcoming the initial anxiety of the ride when it was time to face a new challenge. The challenge or reaching out to people, making them understand the objectives of the ride and aligning them to it, so they could contribute for the cause. We received a mixed response on Day 1. There were people we had high expectations from, who did not even reply and then there were those good Samaritans who contributed selflessly for the cause. Despite the initial dip in my morale, I was quickly back on my feet and continued to share the campaign. We closed at around 2% of our Goal on this day. With about 78 days more to go, we really hope to hit our target and help build that classroom we envisioned for the school.

Ajay:

One of the biggest things to kick start a project is to actually kick it out of our gut and present it to the world. Today we did just that. Yes, our campaign is live. I never ever thought of doing something like this associated with my passion. Maybe this is what good company, makes you do. It was the perfect weather to travel to the office. Cottony clouds and the cool wind got the best mood out of me. It was such a romantic setting for a wonderful day ahead. I raced through, reached my bureau, sipped the aromatic coffee on offer, and pondered about how life is going to unravel its colors in next few days. Wishing and sighing, went on with the current job in hand. 

Come the dusk, we had a call with Dr. Joe who gave me a feel good thing every biker yearns to hear. Feeling more positive, I sign off the day in style.

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4 days to go  and a zillion things to do!

Ajay :  The fear and trepidation of something which is bigger than even the entirety; that will clutch tightly and devour as a whole. Sweaty palms, second thoughts, throbbing heart and sleepless nights have become frequent now. If managed to get some sleep, dreams have only one vision and this echoes in the soul. Fear grips or is it the nervous excitement? Is it going to be big or be lost like a tiny droplet of a drizzle? She empathizes with me and asks me to focus more. I am sure, that she would be having butterflies in her stomach while consoling me, but never does it reflect on her face. Is this the epitome of strength that I lack in myself? Knowingly or un-knowingly, she teaches me those life lessons, without which I would be lying face first on the ground cringing.

Anyway, after much consolation, we (my heart and my mind) unite and decide to figure out things to be done. And off we leave, with a to-do checklist made in our minds, and a perfect plan to execute it. Things went rather smooth. One after the other, our list thinned and mind got free of clutter.

But as we know, there is always a twist in the end, just to make the story more interesting. My bike gave symptoms of breaking down, and I took it to Dr. Joe to fix it. He gave one look at it and asked to admit my bike on his care. I somehow like his demeanor and the moustache he sports.

So, I leave the other half of my soul at Dr. Joe’s and leave for home with my first half.

Tracey : With four days to go for the trip, I should be excited right? But looks like the other (ideally should be)subtle emotions are winning this round. Fear, Anxiety, Nervousness and sometimes just plain old numbness. Does it ever happen to you? When there’s so much to do, your brain just decides to freeze itself and switch to ‘Zilch’ mode? Well, it does happen to me often. But today was different! We created a To-Do list and got onto chalking it off, one by one. With the ball rolling again, the graph of my confidence seemed to rise and my excitement, which had by now taken a back seat, jumped right on track! Even with a few glitches along the way, I was more hopeful by the end of the day,than I was before. 

I guess the moral of  the story is, well, Keep the momentum going buddy!