Doesn’t any one understand the absence of ambition, or the simplicity of it…
Upamanyu chatterjee (English, august). Pg 148
When you are enrolled in a course of which you can neither make head nor tail, like mine which actually reads as “Integrated M-Tech In Biotechnology And Bioinformatics”…..(hard to believe some one actually coined this tag)….. you’ll understand the integrity of the above quote. A fair warning for those who find that jargon even remotely lucrative, its going to take 11 semesters to be formally a graduate., yea yea… at the end of it you’l b a post grad as well……. infact an M-tech…..true, but what if you dont want to be a post grad….what if you want a different stream….what if its MBA that’s haunting you….what if there is nothing that’s haunting you yaar…..then….the answers simple….read the “English, august” ..lol…
Naa…aint promoting the book yaar…can barely finish it, but it dares to say few things that I wouldn’t. Things like…’ want to quit studying’…this is told by many…but coming an average middle-class family which is dogmatic about the Indian education system, to actually mean it is nothing less of heresy. Then there is… ‘get me married’….makes me sound desparate...lol….but doubt if there is a better way to get heard. Once you are married, m guessing that people stop considering your opinions childish. And perhaps, you finally grow up…Most of you don’t face this dilemma; but for those who do, incase you happen to be the youngest in the family…does It really sound desperate.
The age span of 16 to 22 has been like solving rubik’s cube….hilarity is its still unsolvable. still don’t get the logic of living normal. How do we define normal? Obedient student, doing homework on time, studying and passing exams, occasional monkey business followed by mild pangs of guilt….growing up in the system…cursing it among friends & family, defending it when national pride demands, especially when you have snobbish cousins from La…he he…Finally end up in some job, crib abt the pay, even if getting whats deserved or perhaps more, n on n on n on….ewww…
Its so damned boring…and its not ok to say that its in my hand to change it all, cant just pack up my belongings (which obviously is all daddy sponsored ) and leave…that’s like ……will be fun…so wanna do it yaa…
Just the kinda thing that m longing for and will do it, only and only if I know exactly whats gonna happen next. So guess will never do it.
What are the things that I want to do yaar… and how many of them will I be actually able to do….do I really want at any thing at all…it’ll all be too taxing.
Not doing nothing is not a good option.
