as my famous professor quipped in NLS ...."just in the sense, what are you doing?" (please add mallu accent for extra effect) .........while he was referring to my sleeping in corporate law class the question he asked is one of the eternal questions dogging everyone with a brain.... what to do with life?
the Indian education system mandates that you should know what to do with your life by the time you are 14/15/16-which is probably the age when you have just realised that Santa Claus is not real and that babies are not delivered by Storks...so at the most confusing stage in your life you end up making a decision about what to do with the rest of your life.... thus begins the saga that is the story of every person ..... poring over textbooks to crack the IIT exams (even NLS exam nowadays :)...) ..after all if you are not an engineer how can you possibly get a good bride/groom? or to crack that all india medical entrance exams to get into that elusive list of top 5% of India's intelligensia....graduation not being enough you end up getting submerged in text books to do your post graduation as well.....all in pursuit of a decision which you took when you were 14/15? ....
which explains the import of the question-what to do with life? Is life about sticking by the decision you made at 14? or is it about acquiring assets-a huge house, a huge car, diamonds? Or is it about showing others how perfect a life you have- a classic Hum Aapke Hain Kaun family who sings and dances to communicate to each other with a house in London and two kids (a boy and a girl of course!) thrown in for good measure ? or all of the above?...........
Maybe wondering what YOU want to do with life itself is life.....poring over options, talking to friends, scaring your parents about the probability of you joining the PLO, wondering how to ensure your good looks continue till when you are 40...All life..
at the cost of sounding mushy I think life for me is about playing with my nephew and have him recite "vava aunty (that's me) is the best" over and over again (all done voluntary I must add :)..) ....hugging my sister and telling her that she is the best....or feeling happy and celebrating with your loved one on a promotion or acquisition of a house or a car....
and sometimes it's simply about about enjoying hot briyani with your loved one at the end of a famished day...ahhh...
Just in the sense, professor ..are you listening?
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