Long long ago, when the world Co2 emissions were a lot lesser and when scientists just discovered the Ozone hole in the atmosphere, I was in school..
With school came exams, and with exams, the exam mantra! While my friends had their own copyrighted mantras, mine was something that was drilled into me by my relatives and parents. It went something like "Oooommm Study now and get into a nice college and ur life is made namaha"!
I stuck to that mantra through thick and thin! Numerous episodes of duck tales and mickey mouse were sacrificed using the power of this mantra. My faith on the mantra was as strong as Lindsay Lohan's addiction to.. er.. "Party Juices"...
Now as the years progressed, the mantra made small changes.. From Get into a nice college it became get into a nice engineering college and ur life is made.. it further evolved to get into a nice company and ur life is made..
Needless to say.. my "hardly" studying just before the exams and the divine help from God (to boost my eyesight to be able to decipher the coded handwriting of my classmates in the exam hall) made the constant ranting of the mantra stop!..
I now had completed the final stage. I looked around satisfied with myself. Expecting the highest respect and honour on my return home I marched forward. I took my two steps forward and a new mantra crashed down on my head! This time it my company.. It went about something like this..
"Study for xyz certifications and we wont fire you"..
Hard to argue with a mantra made from the highest of moral ethics and dictated by God to us mortals so we don't mess it up...
Now I look around.. My life is still not made.. Infact.. my life was more "made" when I was in kindergarten! My breakfast, lunch and dinner was made. My clothes were made. My homework even was made!!
Now I look at 1000 pages of Java (no.. not the coffee).. Trying to make sense of it.. Page 45 done.. 955 pages left to go!.. Piece of cake..
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