Thursday, August 25, 2011

The different life

It is a reality check to see once long lost friends, people I looked down upon at school. I berated these people for being too nerdy or bookish. Today when I see these people do better than me, It actually forces me to realize that I might have been ignorant. I used to think that these people would probably have a dull life full of boredom. They would sit behind a computer in some Multinational and work, be engineers, Scientists, doctors and so on, my views have been flipped about and i have been forced to introspect. My life has taken me through so many twists and turns that I have understood the hard way. I had these crazy visions about a life so different from what it would be for my friends. Maybe my indecisiveness and my flippant attitude towards life has cost me a chance at making my life early, so when most of my friends are out there struggling with real life issues, i on the contrary am still locked in a debate about my future, don't get me wrong its not as if i did not graduate at all. The sad and real fact that stares us down in this particular country I live in forces me to be educated, or earn a truck load of money and do whatever I feel is right. What really vexes me is that even after I finished my graduation, I still fail to understand what I take away from it. My degree for me is not a proof of my learning rather it is a document that I had to fight with myself. I know my frivolous nature, the surprising fact is that somehow I let it drag on , even though I pondered many a times about leaving my Grads halfway, the people in my life really pushed me towards it, Coaxing me and telling me that it is a document of real importance. I looked it at like a bitter pill that I pinched my nose and swallowed with a glass of water. Don't get me wrong, I want to thank all the people who pushed me to finish it. What they made me look at was the fact that when a person runs a 1000 meter race, one does not stop when he/she is just 100 odd meters away from the finish line. The funny thing is that I really am at a very different position in my life than what designs people had for me, and I realized that I got what I had wished for: the different life.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

What is the question

To many of us living life out there, a series of questions that may dwell in a mind. The best part about "juggling too many thoughts at a time' as quoted by a friend, is that there is no central idea binding you to a thought, rather than a process of ideas, skimming through your mind so fast that you feel the revolution of the earth. At that particular instant you are tethered to the corner of your own mind, however the exhiliriation mentioned is unprecidented. Try and make sense of this?