Tuesday, November 21, 2006

In A Dilemma...

Well...Here I am...Sitting in a jeans which hasn't smelt fresh for the past four weeks...I wear it to the college...I wear it to the mess...I wear it while working on the net...I wear it to sleep...Sort of a second skin of mine...I have the freedom to wear it anywhere I want...I can wear it unwashed without any one cribbing me about its cleanliness...That's the freedom that I possess...
when I entered college..I saw a bright beautiful college life ahead...One filled with fun..Filled with joy and happiness...But sometimes things seem beautiful only when you don't touch it...Like a bubble that is so beautiful with all the colors on it...But the moment you want to know what these colors feel like...It breaks...My life has been one with lots of ups and downs...I would say that my downs outweigh my ups by ton's...Am not a depressed guy with the key board under his hands who is typing his way to glory..But its just that I have learnt several lessons in my life the hard way..Yes I have learnt "several" lessons the hard way...But fortunately I didn't learn the same lesson several times the hard way...If that would had been the case then I would have asked myself...Am I really learning something....
I have seen people wear those "education ruined me" t shirts...But I would say that education for me was not confined to just studies...But it was everything related to time that I was spending while being educated...I am really thankful that I learnt the most important lessons of life through my education...It gave me a class...An edge over others...
Education gives a person a class...It cant be seen but can be felt...Its the difference between a polished diamond and an uncut diamond...Its the difference between sunil gavaskar and sachin tendulkar...There is something distinctive about an educated man would have...And am glad that I am one of them...
today...Am just six months away from being a graduate...After that...I would have a degree next to my name...That wont make me any superior to one one...But its just that I would be known as highly educated...many people in India haven't even seen what the very entrance of a school looks like...But am just glad that I have reached here...
but its the freedom that I have got that has been bugging me all the way now...I am free...To express...To think..To have opinions...But this freedom reminds me of one thing...Am free...And that am not in nay ones control...I don't have any guidance...And I am responsible for every act of mine...
I don't know what to do after my UG..I want to do a PG...But where....I hope God tells me fast...That's the dilemma I am in right now....Am free like a bird in the sky...Like a ship in the middle of the sea...But where should I go...I have lost the sense of direction...I don't know what is the right way...Try asking for extra guidance and I would be named as a kiddy....
life isn't as beautiful as it seems right...But its like a potters wheel...Where you are the clay...You would be molded all the ways...You have to go through tough times so that we can learn...But we often become so sentimental with life that we lose the basic purpose of life...We kill ourselves with stress thinking what would happen if they had a heart attack...Life may be a tough life...But its a good life....
my dilemma may not have a clear way out...But atleast I can think of a place to hide...