Pressure, Intoxication and much more !

The pressure to do a lot of things freaks many people out, mostly like me. Living with some (only some) high achievers of same age, we are under tremendous pressure to be like them. This was not a problem before when media was not that active and news of achievement of those achievers did not reach to our family or society. Now when everything is open, we find no place to escape. At this very soft phase of life, we are being expected to get top management degree, to start a new company, to accumulate wealth like anything. I mean, this is completely ridiculous. If we do all of this at this point of time, what will we do in the rest of the life? That is exactly the reason why life span of people is getting shorter and shorter. Please give us some time to play leisurely (I put stress on leisurely because people expect high achievement in sports too), to visit places without particular motives, to read books (not to improve english!!!), to dance loosely (not to participate in GD competition!), to sing rudely, to dress up normally (not modern) and many more things. And please do not expect so seriously from us to have girlfriends. I mean, how many good girls are there on the planet? (There must have been some bad incident with me for why do I seem so frustrated today running away from responsibilities :P)

Apart from pressure, we are continuously being hypnotized and intoxicated by our professors, friends, media, girls and their photos, politicians, film stars, cricket stars and who not. They first laugh at us, then they use us for their selfish purpose and again laugh. This is not stopping. Believe me, we are not made to bear all this at this age. Guys, wake up, take the charge, free yourself, destroy your enemies. It has to stop. And it will stop.

Learning from difficult times

These times are exceptional and unusual for many of us. It is in nature's rule to move things in full circle. When people start to become crazy, when there is a lot of noise around, when it is believed that things always become bigger and better with time, just then nature perform its miracles. In India, it becomes much more hyped when there are some signs of improvement. Nobody can forget Bharat Uday movement. Now all the figures regarding GDP, growth rate, cash reserves, forcasts of becoming superpower, company's growth rates and net profits, salaries of bollywood and cricket stars, country's billionaires and gifts to their wives/husbands ( I have not heard gifts given to husbands, though. Sorry, I am no feminist.) serve the purpose of fuelling our mind regarding country's rise. There is no problem in having notion of optimism, but when the guys trading in the stock market start to become dissatisfied with a company's profit growth rate of slightly less than 30% on quarterly basis, there is some problem. And we are facing consequences of this in Satyam fiasco. We thought that home prices always rise. We faced consequence of this in global recession.

Now let us look at placement scene on our campus. It is terrible, as we all know. Guys we thought would get placed on the first day, got placed on 24th day and some are stil not able to find out their day. I think that these situations provide us an opportunity to give time to ourselves, to develop ourselves, to decide about our real future. There is nothing to worry because time is a great leveler. It plays with us sometimes but will position everyone in the right place according to their qualifications. What we should learn from these difficult times is that craziness is worth pursuing only when the base is strong. Otherwise, it makes people mad.