My "much awaited" B.Tech degree arrived yesterday, much awaited 'cause my parents were getting worried sick about my result in final semester and when will my degree arrive since convocation got over around 2 weeks back. Actually they were thinking that i had already checked out my result over the net or something but wasn't telling them, and this suspicion being due to my habit of never checking my result when i am at home and i usually defer checking the result for as long as possible even if that means directly collecting the gradesheets from institute's office :)
Most people are really eager like my family members are to see the reult to check the score.... its been like this since the day i can remember from school to competitive exams to IIT... i clearly remember my mom used to write down my roll nos. that used to arrive on admit cards for different competitive exams so she could pass them down to my sisters who were placed incharge of checking the result in case i didnt comply to their demands :) one time infact there started a cold war between me and my mom inwhich she used to hide the paper where roll nos. were written and i used to stow away the admit cards and search and destroy the paper with my roll nos. on it....
u must be thinking why i would go to such lengths and why not just check the results like regular people.... the thing is its been my philosophy of life from the day i could think logically...
it goes like this... when ever one gives an exam and is awaiting resluts at home say for exams of semester and results might come while you are still at home during the vacation or for that matter say you have given some comeptitive exam and most people around you have already calculated their scores in the paper from the proposed online solutions why dont i do all that???
well i somehow feel that say if you didnt farewell in your exams your vacations will be spoilt and your mood will be sour till the day the results of competitive exams arrive or you leave for your college and the ordeal doesnt ends there... after that when uyou check out the actual official reluts you go through the same process of greiving... on the other hand if you are supposed to get good grades in exams and stuff then it wouldnt matter if you dont check the results as you are already enjoying at home and infact there is and extra elemen of surprise when you check the actual result and you see that you performed well and it gives you a sense of celebration what i like to call "the party time" :)
anyways this is how i felt....
the other day i came online and saw a friend's status message "wish life came with an instruction manual"and it just hit me then how true it was cause i always felt that life was like a ladder with steps so high that you cant see from one step wats there on the next step a bed of roses or the thorns of rose plant? at each step we are promised that dont you worry just get over this step
and everything will be allright.... if you remember we are told he boy just study thorugh your board exams then you will be in class 11 and you will have enough time to enjoy... you ground your ass and study hard board exams are over with some tensions reults also arrive but the ordeal is over and while you havent even taken a breath of relief there is another sword looming over your head what stream to take in class 11 coaching classes for exams and what not and the 3 month break given after 10th class turns into a tuition fiesta.....
after that 11th 12th mein to padhna hi hoga cos career banane ka sawaal hai uske baad to you will be in college so dont worry 12th boards ke baad itne saare forms and competitve exams finally you manage to join an institute... lets take a case when you are able to get into one of the IITs after your result has arrived that you have got so and so rank your parents start brain storming what branch what institute saare duur ke rishtedaaron ko bhi phone kar diya jaata hai and if you can talk to an iitian at that time aww mann that gives teh parents helluva satisfaction
jaise taise you go thru counselling join some iit with some branch hoping now you dont have to work so had cause you have finaly reached some kind of top after clearing jee and stuff... your peers from other institutes(other than iits) think that you have got it all.... but no one knows that actual struggle has just started cause now you have to work hard for good grades keep up the attendance in class cause no1 wants an F grade as it is the biggest social tabboo india to not be able to complete graduation in 4 yrs of time... also if your grades are low placements mein problem hogi higher studies mein problem hogi ye woh and god knows how many tensions...
you struggle through the three years uske baad jaise taise you get an internship (althogh thats anoother 8 months project just to get an intern i wont discuss it here) and as you are in your 4th year when you should be feeling nostalgic about your past 3 years the institute decides to bring on the heat and loads your 7th semester with inf courses along with BTP and also tension of placements... and they dont leave you in 8th semester as well usmein bhi attendance ki problem final BTP submissions and what not... in the middle of all this you are able to get some kind of job ....and now while you are waiting to go and join a job your seniors have already told you by now that even though you are earning money its not a bed of roses yet and 99% chances are there that you will end up hating your job within first few months... And while you were still celebrating your graduation your mind was already lost in the thoughts about the company that you will join (even without you knowing it).....
this brings me to yet another point is there ever a final step in life when you say THATS IT this is as far as i can climb up and hell even if there are thorns on this step i will clear them up and crate my own roses without thorns... i plan to write about it later on til then...
bbye....
p.s one of my readers requested not to use slang language while writing a blog hope i havent used any but even if i have then its by mistake and please suggest the corrections in comments
1 comment:
Gosh, awesome post Naka.. so true!
You suggested all the pillars, all the hurdles, all the milestones in all of our academic lives, more or less everyone has slogged the same amount, gained more or less the same satisfaction.. but the thing about life is, it's not these points of achievement or milestones which decides how our life has or will turn up.. but the transitions in between. It's not 'where' you are but how you've come to be there. If the transitions are fun, interesting and memorable - life is great... if the transitions are boring or mundane - life is bland. No matter what we achieve or where we reach.. a positive outlook towards life and how we approach situations is all that counts.
The hindi 'in-betweens' were hillarious too, keep 'em coming :D
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