Papa, I want to be a ‘star’ scientist!

A nine months ‘internship’ inside the mother’s womb and 700 mornings after that, one fine evening your cute, naughty dolly kid says, “Papa, look at the stars, I want to be a star scientist and want to go to NISA.” Thanks to the idiot box – television – that atleast your kid knows that there’s something called NISA, although it’s NASA in reality!

Anyway, how simple is that for a 2-year-old to decide what she wants to become and take on the rest of 70 odd years! How cool she might have predicted life to be…Sun raises, sets, raise again and this continues for 10 more years and at this point of time, the aim to be a space scientist takes a beating and the revisioned-vision is to be a doctor! Life goes that way and there are many who actually pick up to the pace and the flow and become a doctor; be it by doing an Economics honors and getting a PhD after that! Economics and Medicine – how apart or how close they are, by being the flip side of each other!

Here I want to acknowledge the fact that I am a confused person – confused as ever in taking tough decisions that concerns my life. You will say not a good sign for a journalist or even a public relations fellow – look, here too I am confused, what to say myself – a journalist or a PR person!

Life is not as easy as mixing sugar, water, milk and tea and heating it. Nor it is like having mango juice from a tetra pack! Although it’s not that tough at all times as looking out for a good accommodation in Lucknow! Actually the ability to take decision is the core and that matters, how you aim at something. Willing to be a successful person not at all solves the problem. Everyone does have that aim – a beggar at platform no. 18 and platform no. 1 has the same expectation, but the platform no. 1 beggar knows that he will get the most opportunity as ‘foreigners’ like to travel by Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto and these trains leave from platform no. 1 only!

Some Bunty said that in this world there are two types of people; one who know what to do and the other knows how to do! I want to belong to the second category, but (and is quite a big BUT) I am always stuck at category first! The switch is quite necessary now; how I am…. again CONFUSED!
It was in 1994 that I operated my old tape recorder – the aim was to look the functioning and re-screw it. I messed completely and ended up over-screwing some nuts! Back then, I wanted to be an engineer! Thank God, I never wanted to be a surgeon, or was I!
How lucky are those who set their target and the path too; and work on for that; till they grab that, be it at 40! One Bihari friend (I don’t mind if someone calls me Assamese) of mine pointed sometime back that many students from Bihar gets into IAS because they work hard – hard enough to crack; at chance 1 or at chance 4, it doesn’t matter! I salute that devotion. God, when will I know, what I am born to do…

Note: The writer is a confused freak and will make you read nonsense for hours if you don’t skip to another post of his. Not all of his posts are as time consuming and idiotic as this one! This “piece” is an impromptu one after getting a weekly off! Maybe the brain also was switched-off when this was written. This is to mention here again that the writer is suffering from grave illness – confusico communion-deficiency syndrome. The main problem is that, he is ever confused and needs comments very badly. So hope you will help him out. Get well soon…!