A person finishes his engineering from some xyz college of engineering which is affiliated to one of the best universities in India. He then went on to apply for a software job through campus interview, got selected and have been offered posting in IT hub at bangalore. After few months of training, he was offered to go abroad (typically to US) for a period of few years to work on client’s side, allowing him to earn in dollars. After completing his tenure abroad, he comes back to India with a “US return” tag which enables him to automatically get a priority while looking for a suitable match. Fortunately, his horoscope matches with one of the beautiful girl in his community.
He marries the beautiful girl, takes her abroad for honeymoon either to Europe or US, buy a car, a home, spends his weekend trip with his wife on trekking and other activities, organizes party every week with his “close” friends, becomes father, read books to his kid and bring him up in rich atmosphere, provide him/her the education from one of the best (also the richest) school in India, and on and on and on.
There is this another person, who manages to finish his under graduation from abc college of engineering, not happy with what he had learnt, went on to pursue masters, still not convinced he has done anything, went on to struggle himself day and night, spent lots of sleepless nights arguing with his peers and colleagues, make a small but significant leap which enables him to get a Ph.D, still not satisfied, takes up a teaching post in a research based institute, does research with help from his grad students, spends lot of times with his students than with his family (if at all he gets one), make a startling discovery of something which nobody in this world is interested on. In pursuit of his dreams, he realizes that he doesn’ t have time to socialize with his friends, can’t afford to spend time with a girl in cafeteria unless she is his colleague and talks about research but not sex, felt bad because he couldn’t get priority in looking for a suitable match, even worse when he was told that beautiful girl’s horoscope does not match with his own, can’t stand questions from his relatives/friends who keeps asking him “what you do for your living?” and on and on and on.
Who among the two persons you see here has a successful life?
Inspired from Peer cruelty.
I'll choose the 2nd one !!! i think v'll choose 2nd one ???
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Both do, in their own ways.
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I wouldn't let the society or anyone decide whether I'm successful in life or not! What counts is whether I'm happy with my choices and success or not. I'd be proud to tell anyone that I pursue the profession I wanted, and chose for myself!
Life's about striking a balance between work and relationships. If we can't do that, and end up not 'socializing', we're to blame for the unhappiness caused due to this!
About the horoscope not matching, after all the education and all, would the guy really wait for horoscopes to match?!! :P
A girl isn't beautiful if the depth of her vision is limited to materialistic accomplishments! Any person, for that matter.
Tough choice buddy. I guess I'll have to say it depends on the individual's priorities in life? :s
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