Sunshine time!

I've finally seen 3 Idiots. Finally! Loved the movie, as did millions of others. I guess it is something we all feel deep within our hearts? Give me some sunshine, give me some rain, give me another chance, i wanna grow up once again....

And our situation was probably far better than the kids who go through the rigors of the education system today. If someone weighs the backpack most kids carry to school today, it would outweigh their own weight! Seen the results of late? 99.7% 99% 98.8%.... Most teachers give marks to projects based on their liking towards certain students. Everyone has to be the best, come first and earn the most.

In effect, we are teaching ourselves and the Next Gen to always compare their standing with someone else's standing and evaluate their own self. Forget about individualistic thoughts, it has no space in today's web of confusion. About 10 years ago, everyone had to do a BE + secure job. Now, its a BE + MBA + high salary + posh lifestyle... And that's mostly because everyone else has it and it's easy to drift into the same state of mind.

Our lives our stereotyped, our minds are stereotyped, our values are stereotyped... we are stereotyped. We are mere xerox copies of each other with different faces.

3 months ago i took a decision which has changed my life, almost. 3 years of working in the way we do, i had lost myself. Apart from putting on enough weight to scare the the living daylights out of me, i had turned into someone i could not identify with. When i stopped and looked, i saw people who were afraid to speak their minds out and kick some assholes in their rear because they feared losing their jobs. I will never forget being stranded at 10PM in the office campus when virtually everyone had left on account of a transportation strike and the manager did not think it was important to alert me. He instead picked up his bag and walked out. Whats worse? Another manager who knew i was working there canceled his meeting and left early as well. And the same duo sniggered at me the next day. I cannot believe someone like me would continue working under these circumstances but i did. Thats where i had begun losing myself.

And i know, that those who read this will also have experienced the same. At least most of them. You gradually get sucked into this world where it's all about how much you earn, how secure your job is, how well equipped you are to build a house by the time you're 30, where you can put your kids to school. The sad part is, in our country these stupid things matter! How many of us chose IT as field worth pursuing because we knew what it was? We knew Infosys and Wipro, that's all we knew. :) Some in the army of high-salary hopefuls began enjoying it. But as far as i know, 99% do not enjoy it. They do it for their salary and lifestyle.

So exactly what is a child supposed to pursue in this complex world we have created? Literature? Chemistry? Law? Biology? Science? Music? Who cares? What one pursues is a plush job. That doesn't necessarily need to be defined by any vocation.

Or do we learn from our not-so-uplifting lives and refrain from making such mistakes going forward?

It's sad that we have built this vicious circle where we have to be in this damned rat race to be able to afford the most basic necessities. Or maybe it's all in our mind. Maybe we will achieve some semblance of peace when we begin listening to ourselves rather than what society tells us....