Musing

I have been thinking, thinking and thinking. I have been thinking of success, of the “life’s purpose”, thinking of all that comes to the mind of an undergrad, who will be graduating next year. This constant phase of thinking made me realize that no one really talks to you about these things. As a kid you get to learn the definition of “matter”, you learn to add and subtract, you get to know the concepts of profit and loss but you don’t get to know: Yourself.

We study, we grow through school, and then university; we go on to make a career, but hardly do we, in a moment of serious introspection, ask the question “Why?”. Most of what we do, we do because we need to follow the trend like a herd of sheep. We have evolved and moved far away from being animals, but our instinct to “survive” lingers. While this is not as such a bad thing, but choosing a career to survive or to survive in the most comfortable way cannot be a good idea.

For the entirety of our childhood and also our adolescence, we have been judged by numbers. We are good or bad depends solely on the numbers associated with us. While, capitalistically speaking, this might be very efficient, segregating the good from the bad, but we took away the essence of being a human from our education: the education of human beings. And so, now we compare ourselves based on the number in our pay-checks. The higher the number, the better we are. But are we actually? The system has been designed for us to think so. A man-made system, which is too strong and deep rooted for us to get out of.

Don’t be looking for a conclusion in this article for there isn’t. I am only full of questions.