What Lies Ahead

Many a time I wonder whether I am at the right place spending a hell lot of time to pursue a difficult course in engineering. But I don’t get a answer. But I was adamant to find the answer. As it is always said to find what wrong happened one needs to look down to the things underlying. I did the same thing.

I went into flashback just like in movies when they go from Technicolor to black and white (mine was still colored, don’t know how) to find answers to my only question. But to my surprise I don’t remember taking any decision for my life. All the schools I went to and what all I did was never my choice. Schools I understand, one may not be in that shoes where he can decide which school to join as this decision is taken by parents considering all the factors such as location, distance, fees, rapport, peer promotion etc. But I feel so strange when a strong number of schools in here offer the same science, commerce and arts somewhere as field of specialty.

What if one is interested in unconventional sports like karate, cycling, skateboarding, surfing etc., has a flair for foreign languages, painting, architecture, law, tourism industry, a critic of food, journalist, news reader, bartender, teacher, adventure sports like rafting, rippling, trekking, sky flying and such. I know many like them and love to show their talent in such. But they still hesitate to take them as career options.

Why?

We have been brought up in a society where a person is judged on his or her mental capacity. How fast one can multiply, divide, add and subtract becomes the criteria to categorize children as young as 6-7 years into intelligent, average and dumb beings. I don’t understand who gave them the right to categorize these young minds in such categories, but the answer pops to be the society itself. A brief peep into Indian history may enlighten us to some extent.

India has always been a country for the people, where Indian kings and rulers always thought for the interest of the people over theirs until they got the hint and provocation to become the ruler of the entire nation. That is overestimating one’s power to reform. Due to this unending desire to capture the entire nation for thirst of power and money finally resulted in India being slaves to British. But this slavery taught India to join hands and become one and live for each other’s benefit. This is how we got independence. What after independence?