Are you not placed yet?

Its the beginning of October and I'm in my 7th semester of my engineering degree, in the final year of my studies. One question that anyone and everyone whom I've been talking to lately have asked me or have been wanting me to answer is "Are you not placed yet?". And when finally the first big company stepped into my college, I was out of the race in the very first round. And not just me a number of others who wrote the first round of aptitude test with me. I believe that most of them would share the same feelings as I do right now. Right or wrong the first thought that hits us hard is, "My friends are placed", and when it happens by luck to a few, it hurts even more. The deserving people deserve it but what about the few of them who got it by luck. "Should I not be in that place?" is the question that my heart wants an answer for. Just as I write about this I get glimpses of standing in my school 4 years back from today, we had completed our 12th standard exams and I was walking to a number of people and consoling them. Yes, makes me laugh even today, I walked to those girls who were crying saying that they'll fail their exams and told them that they'll pass, trying to make them feel better and guess what, most of them got into better colleges than me. I wonder if they had lied when they said they'll fail or they did not know that their parents will pay any amount to get them into a good college. I felt lost when the results came but I was into a college too, not the best but a good one where studies was not the end of the world. And here today when I was just about to get lost, those thoughts bring me back to normal for I know that its just the beginning, another beginning, of a story that has better things coming ahead. And once again I'm telling all those around me to wait and not lose hope. After all its just the first interview and i believe that God knows where to place each one in life's race. Will he not know the right place for me and all my friends? So here I am moving on hoping to write a happier note sooner!