Now tell me honestly... i wont ask if anyone has ever felt this.. coz i know everyone of us have... n i wanna know how many times one has felt that he/she has got lost in the crowd.. ask any child wat he/she aspires to become in future.. u'll get a variety of answers like.. Scientist, Astronaut, Actor, Musician, Doctor, Singer, Pilot, Architect, Soldier, Commando, Journalist.. n a lot more.. i always thought i cud b one of these when i was young (damn, i still am young) n i dunno why these things get faded away for a lot of us... i still remember me n a few classmates wanted to join the NDA while we were in our tenth... but none of us ever did... n all of us r doin the same thing now... its really sad to think how many of us have lost track of wat we wanted to be durin our childhood..
More importantly, speakin in general, i'm damn sure none of us ever wanted to be software engineers.. infact, there was nothin like that while we were still in school.. ppl used to ask "software who...?" but the fact is : 3 out of 5 engineers passin out in this country became software engineers in the past 5-6 years.. i accept that there still r ppl who follow their dreams.. but the majority...?? lookin at the ppl join IT companies n earnin good n "easy" money has made lot of ppl look upto this profession like anythin.. resultin in the younger ones feelin they wanna do that too... now.. why did this happen.. jus that they too r "gettin lost in the crowd"...!! and wats happenin now.. zero recruitments at colleges, no job opportunities, firings n wat not.. its kinda a situation where almost a generation of young guys having "no job" starin at their faces after completin their degrees.. the main reason i believe is the feeling that one gets - "i can also do that..." damn.. its not about whether u can or u cant.. its about whether u want to or not...!! why the hell have we forgotten this.. n why the hell does this thought occur to our minds only after 2-3 yrs of work...!!?? isnt there anythin that one can do now...?? n wat if one gets married...?? havent these questions crossed ur mind ever...?? y do ppl make u feel that its too late by the time u think abt this...??
Comin to the most important factor (atleast for we Indians).. the Society.. this is the only factor that has been affectin the careers of hell a lot of ppl here.. "IT job is the in thing now.. wat will the society feel if i dont get one like that.. wat will the society say if i do somethin different.." i'm not sayin that we should not care about society n go ahead do wat we wanna do.. but when will the so-called society change...?? thats basically how our parents were brought up.. n how we were brought up... in quite a few cases, its the parents who r against their children's dreams.. reason - who will marry you if u do that...!?? and how will you settle down..!!?? duh.. is marriage important than career aspirations or job-satisfaction...?? why do parents have to do this...?? r they doin this jus because they have the highest care for us.. yes accepted.. but y dont they let their children learn frm their own mistakes... instead, they say.. "everyone's doin it.. why cant u...??" right on the mark.. this is wat i'm talkin abt.. its not abt wat one can or cant do.. its abt wat one wants to do...!!
Finally, our teachers n professors.. damn.. if u ask me, they have an impact on the students as much as the parents do.. u can even count the guys who say their profs r their greatest inspiration coz of the thoughts they share, the experience they share, the suggestions/advices they give.. but u can never count the guys who say their profs r useless... this is exactly where students have been losing their confidence.. everytime i watch movies like October Sky, Good Will Hunting, Lions for Lambs.. i always feel why the hell didnt i ever had a prof like this...!! all these 3 movies r based on real life stories.. such amazin stories they r... inspirin movies like these r a rarity in our country.. n the majority of movies r idiotically romance-based...
Whooo... a lot of these things have been crossin my mind in the past week.. jus have a feelin that this mite lead to somethin.. i really hope it will.. feelin happy that i've let these feelings out of my mind... kinda happy that i've created a blog to let out my feelings...
