For starters...A Middle Class Approach

This one is going to be crap...I'm afraid. Now what wouldn't one do to evade a life devoid of creativity interest and fun....seems like most of us would go to extents to prevent it. Let us anlayse the stuff from a poor confused lad's point of view...The stereotypical household from which I came offered limited room for creative exposure but I wouldn't say that I didn't get any. The problem mainly lay in the way things were implemented . Everything seemed to be imposed like a burden! "You gotta learn Music"!!! Now how does that sound? And when the guy next door gets seriously interested hes put off on the pretext- Music won't get him anywhere! "It's too tough to excel in such a field and how many cases can you enumerate from households like ours? Better concentrate on your studies instead." The steadfast rule that you gotta make a living after graduate school and after pursuing academics and academics alone semed to be an etched out rule with an explanation that it is the field that requires minimum sweat! C'mon man you gotta let the person decide what he wants for himself.
I won't however blame the parents entirely. They have seen the same thing when they were young and it really requires a brave stand for somebody to allow a change - especially when it's your offspring's future that's at stake. By the time the poor guy reaches High School, if he is from a thoroughly conventional(mind you I didn't use the term "orthodox") middle class family that live in a relatively well informed city in India you hear the parents blurting out.." You gotta go to IIT ".When I grew up, in most cities of Bengal and other states that simply refuse to grow up you only had two options - You become a doctor or an Engineer. And how do you decide that? If you are good at Maths or have an aversion towards Biology or don't want to study much, you go for Engineering. Sounds remarkable, doesn't it? Doesn't matter whether you have any interest in electronic gadgets or not, doesn't matter whether you even know how to work on nuts or bolts...you are expected to learn all this once you go to college and (forgive my saying so) and forget it even faster and concentrate on only what gets you a job. Now this concept of job itself is pretty interesting from a middle class view. Will explore it later maybe...
So where were we? Ah..we were going for Engineering. The story of the doctors is pretty much more disastrous. You become a doctor if every third person in your family is a doctor(That doesn't make you a middle class guy though..) or you can memorize things like hell or simply if you are poor at Maths and your parents want you to make it big! So what, if you don't like Biology? " You don't develop interest in everything overnight. Over time you will grow a "taste" for it." Bravo!!
The winds of change however have struck the coasts. In all big cities now you will find a host of career opportunities that eventually might let you earn ten times an Engineer. But consider the irony...they are still referred to as " alternative career opportunities." It feels really good to expect that the guys even five or six years down the line will not hesitate to claim boldly that they really like painting or fashion designing and the parents will actually support their view. But what you will see in the initial stages is the utter disdain with which the middle class treats these alternative career opportunities in a few years to come. I remember my dad saying how people used to look down upon Engineers 30 years back when a pure Science majors was in vogue after High School. Now the wheel has unfortunately reversed...
Well let's let go off this. We were talking of our poor and confused hero. The problem was that he liked nothing...you can guess no innate interest in any form or Science or art. So what does he do? When his parents spring up IIT as an option, obedient as he is and all the more so sly that he is, he immediately realizes that it's an easy call. Slog your ass off for two years if you want to get there, slog off for another year if you want to get a good branch and hey presto! You are there after your undergraduate studies and everybody back home is celebrating! I , for one, am not at all undermining the hardwork that our protagonist puts in. IIT, for those who know and for those who don't know, is not a piece of cake for any guy no matter how brilliant you are. It requires a lot of brains and coordinated effort to land up with a really good rank. But that's not what I am talking about. Why are there people here who don't have any clue about why they are here and what exactly they want to do in future. Pathetically enough you fill up your options on the basis of your rank. half of the guys don't have any clue as to what they are interested in. Listen to the parents again from middle class families and you can't help getting amused.." The 'higher' branches have better jobs with higher salaries. It secures your future. So you fill up the choices in the way everybody fills them up." Sure, that's the way the world runs. Then what is the point in developing interest in some field or the other. Or do we mean to say that the rather alarmingly high Middle class population doesn't believe in creativity,interests,doing something out of your own urge ? Anything besides school academics is largely seen as a pastime, hobby but the moment you turn serious about it the society around you considers it as a largely unnecessary pain in the ass. Hopefully most of you haven't faced the direct brunt of it. But in some way or the other it has affected 'our' lifes. The 'our' is again debatable and our poor confused protagonist leaves it up to you to decide how far this 'we' reaches upto. Looking for comments definitely as I end here pretty lamely simply because nothing much is coming to mind. As I said in the beginning...it's largely crap!!!

No Creativity

No Creativity

My First Blog

Wow!!
Is that supposed to feel exciting?? Not much in a mood today though..However let me see...I feel like pouring my heart out now and then..(the now and the then being spaced quite substantially separated on the timeline) hence my tryst with this site...The profanity that once in a while I refer to as life..seems to have come a full circle now...
Seems pretty confusing, doesn't it?? well it does to me too...Further details will have to wait for the time being it seems..
It's time to celebrate now... my first blog , hmmmm...Indeed!!!