"Saari umrr hum mar marke ji liye
ik pal toh abb hamein jine do, jine do
give me some sunshine, give me some rain
give me another chance i wanna grow up once again"
Yesterday I had watched the movie "3 idiots" again, something in the movie always made me think is life really what we want or is it what it becomes. We all are running the rat race to score the best and leave behind the rest.
I came to this point because of an event that happened today - we were to select the subjects that we wanted in 2nd year of our course at Kozhikode. The wierd thing about the selection process is that not everyone would have the subjects of their interest, one who scored maximum grades in 1st year gets maximum points to bid. Result the rat race continues, some get the subjects of their choice while other lag behind. Another interesting phenomenon that came to light was, how easily we adopt ourselves to the money matters. We don't see that we have any specific interest in any area or not, it like the area that has got the maximum paying job, I would take that as my specialisation.
Did we ever realise what are we making of ourselves - a machine. That machine which only sees money. We don't realise that we can excel in other areas also but its the lure of greenback that attracts us like a magnet.
It was due to this incident that I realised what the movie potrayed about the system was not wrong. The pressure is intense to excel Why??? because you are the best and competing against the best brains in the country. But once I would like each one of us to ask a simple question is it worth the price we all are paying or its just the way of life??
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Rat race.. :) what else can one do in a nation of soo many heads and good education for limited few.. Good education promises good money, which in turn promises a better way of life in our country.. And isn't this such a in-your-face truth, that people with money always get preferential treatments?
This is not a nice truth, but a truth nonetheless.. so why should someone not try to be in the rat race?
@Kishley
True what you said about money. But I say is money the only thing in life and rat race the pnly solution. Why is it so that only engineers and doctors are the careers worth taking up in the country there are many other streams in which a person could have interest and be gud but what happens he turns to be an engineer or a doc.
We are having talent but we are killing the inner self in most cases.
As Mastercard ad said
" There are somethings money cannot buy..."
These somethings are very important in life.
GBU
Manish
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