1. Why is everyone brainwashing kids that the course/career they choose is a BIG step and that it's LIFE and all that?
That's totally stupid. It makes making the choice a chore, takes the joy out of walking on a desired path. I hope no one I know stuffs such stupid ideas into a kid's head. It weighs down on the kid's shoulders, forcing them to grow up. But really, NOTHING IS IRREVERSIBLE. And nothing is SO important that it can be called your life, certainly not your career. Don't we know many people who choose something first, decide it's not what they want to do for the rest of their life and take up something else later? I know we need the money, but still, we don't need more money than we need at the expense of our happiness. I don't want to look back on my life and think, "Sure, I earned a lot, made a lot of money, but still I never got to dance in the rain or smell the roses or learn to play the guitar..."
2. Why do people save so much of money?
I don't even want to express my thoughts on this one.
3. Why do people get so embarrassed when something funny happens?
I used to get embarrassed so easily myself. Sure, people tend to laugh, find it very funny, and possibly even remember you by one of your silliest incidents. A couple of people at my university never did manage to remember my name, but always remembered me as, "the girl who bumped into the NO PARKING notice." It's very embarrassing, yes. It's not as if you can take back what happened by being embarrassed about it. And it's not as if the people who don't even know you really have the time to dwell on the incident and form opinions about you. Everyone's busy with their own stuff. So they turn and look at you, so what? Big deal.
4. Why do people find it funny when someone else is embarrassed?
I guess it's one of the weird things about the human animal.
5. Do humans need a special sense of humor to laugh at the inconsistencies and hypocrisies and all that's weird about humans, and finally, at themselves?
Not just that, it sure needs some growth and development of the mind. Retards can't do that.
3 comments:
1. choice, a chore, well perhaps yes! it happens to most of us! looking back, i'd have rewound my life and started a venture, a nice small one but here i am, studying something else instead! :D
2. true that! *sigh* more so, ppl of india... 'save, save, save' for the never arriving future! damn.
3.well ppl miss out on noticing the humor when something funny happens to them. i was also very sensitive to things like that, till 9th std. !
4. and 5. i cant think of any answer to them :P
Jayashree, you're not getting my point on the first one - what I'm trying to say is, it's not as if you cannot start your 'nice, little venture' now. A BE Geoinformatics degree shouldn't stop you from taking something totally unrelated - music, let's say, or who knows, even paleontology! It's not as if the whole thing is irreversible. A "bad" choice (and sadly, it's measured based on the money it could give once you get a job) is not something you HAVE TO live with all your life. Like one of my friends said when I was looking for another job, "You have to be careful when you make a choice, you have to do only this for all your life." That is crap, there are so many other things I want to do, and taking up one job doesn't mean I'm going to have to stick with it all my life.
YAY Neeru! back to writing ways :) :) :)
Fun to read :) And very true, all of them.. would like to know about the second thought though...
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