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.