Live Inspired !

Each one of us have a philosopher inside them can give an opinion about life and its manifestations from their personal experiences. And I will also be not writing any different. Just that a small lesson I learnt a few years back . This goes to all my friends and specifically to my fellow research mates who has a dream like me to win the Nobel prize some day ! Then the PI, whom I give all the credit for the scarcely detectable trait of researcher people see in me if they see at all - used to motivate the lab members saying “a negative result is also a result” . I never understood the importance of it until I started with my own Master thesis . Now I know what one goes through when what u think and what results u get in the lab are like poles apart and you wonder how did you think that your hypothesis would work ! You suddenly feel so stupid and think all the answer was right in front of you and how did you not see it. It happens all the time in a research lab and I know I am speaking all my friend’s minds ! Now here I talk about effective “Google search”! We research on things about which we don't know and most importantly nobody knows ! Because if you realize after 2 years of hard work, some other great person from some other university of a beautiful country has already published the data and how did you miss that damn paper ? Now that is stupidity(or at-least what people will think of you even after giving countless days into the research)! SO the first step of any research is to make sure nobody is working on it or at-least not published anything on it ! The next big question is , is there anything left to be discovered  ??? Human minds so curious in nature and has touched every possible corner of this world , every single iota presented by the mighty nature and still digging ! Is there any topic our seniors have left for us !However, I finally settled on a topic on which i am almost confident that nobody has touched this subject yet.But this again brings doubt like if nobody has worked on it ,does that mean its not worth looking into ? I am still in this quandary  but I decided to go ahead with my idea.And well well the bad news comes faster than the good news.My first two experiments failed and I was almost sure this is not going to work. Going back to what my teacher said “a negative result is also a result”and my findings will guide someone in future to not go this way if he happens to be thinking of the same idea as me.Everyday in the lab is an exciting day,because you don't know what you may hit onto by the end of the day.U may have eureka days (which is comes like leap years) ,a good day ( this is when by the end of the day you get what you expected) and then comes the bad days (when...well you know what happens !!) and their frequency is very good!With due respect to all my researcher friends and Phd students, I now understand what it takes to be in the research world ! I hope results good or bad inspires you and me as we work for the same goal..Understanding SCIENCE !