Arbitrary Notions

Or is it? Maybe… I know I am not the most qualified person for this topic but hey, it’s my blog. I have seen people ‘falling in love’ during their school days. And I am talking about the serious commitment, many a times in college too. But I guess college romance is a little more understandable. As for me, I don’t get it. You don’t have any kind of clarity on where are you going to end up and here you are ready to commit yourself to a person for all your life. You can’t commit yourself to studies but yes a romantic commitment is totally fine.

C ollege has just finished and this is what has been going on in my mind... I stand here again, On these never-ending crossroads of life. Here I face again, Many choices, Of which choosing one will shape my future, Take me to where I am destined to go. I have to decide again, And fast, But I don't want to. For once I want to let destiny choose me, To see how everything plays out. But it does not matter, These crossroads will come again, And I will have to choose, Better choose wisely now than regret later.

Q utopia. This one word is the reason I have kept coming back to college ( This and semester exams ). When I joined the college, we were given a small book which described about the various societies and the extracurricular activities that took place here. Going through it I was interested in one or two of the societies neither of which were Qutopia. Reason, I had never done any kind of quizzing activity ever in school or for that matter anywhere else. Since we weren’t allowed to join any activity in the first year I did not even try to join any society. (I was a law abiding, afraid of breaking the rules kind of guy )

Disclaimer : The stats and numbers posted here are completely made up by me. There is no source to verify these. T his post is going to be exactly what you think. Many before me have forayed into this area and done a better job than what I will do. Idea for this came to me a few days back when I saw a post on facebook which said ‘In India we first become an engineer and then decide what we want to do in life’. This actually was one of the most honest posts to have been put up. Outside India ( by that I mean USA and other western countries and not any of our immediate neighbors ), the kids usually get to explore their potential in fields other than academics during their school years only. This helps them to decide what field of study to choose and then they go on to make a career in that field. Also we have the arbitrary notion in India to have doctors or engineers in every home that our western peers don’t have. Some will say opportunities are given in India as well, but to them...