I was travelling through the city to reach my workplace as usual on a very cool Sunday morning (45

degree C). In the midst of the beads of tiny droplets of perspiration rolling down my forehead I
imagine a surreal life in the beckoning. Oh yes I did work on 1st May too!!

As the reckless driver manoeuvered the vehicle through narrow lanes of shattered asphalt and
crowded streets, the guilt of working for a living engrossed my otherwise deluded mind. The comfort
of owning a cell phone, an access point to stay connected to the circles of friends and family through
the internet, the privilege to travel around the places of interest, the provision to spend money on all
the needs and luxuries and above all to stay healthy with a proper dosage of essential nutrients.

I mean common I should have had a better life than this! The pain with which I managed to graduate
is a testimony to my belief. There were days when I just woke up to have a good square meal! The
day began with hangout at a local restaurant or beverage shop irrespective of time. There was pocket
money to lavish upon and then there was corruption when the fuel ran low down the pocket! Ever
imagined a life working? Oh no, not me please.

Ramanuj the driver is 32 years old and from a place near Patna in Bihar. He has five children. The
fifth one is a boy aged 12. Candid about the soaring temperature, Ramanuj swears he wouldnt
consume beer in the evening. Honking, screeching, buzzing and offcourse hustling is the environment
with almost a third of a quarter of a million population in the city vacationing to have a piece of daily
chores. The vehicle still has some life running down its crux of the system although it is not equipped
with the facility of Air-conditioning nor with a music system. She must be handled with care I say to
Ramanuj as he reluctantly fidgets to get her down to gear 2.

What do you want to do after graduation? What are your interest s in the field of graduation? Ohh did
you read about the latest technologies that has changed the way of work in that field? You intend to
pursue Masters? Which is your dream company? Why didnt you attend the campus placements?
You could have atleast given the writtens, I know a co-ordinator in the placement cell, she could have
got you through the back door! You done with your project work? What are you going to do for a
living? My parents wont allow us to be together if you dont work!!

Quiet a day it has already been and we havent even travelled half our way to the office, says Jeetu the
office boy. Jeetu hails from a small town in Uttar Pradesh and heavens lord I dont get an idea how he
landed into this current profile. However, Jeetu doesnt complain a lot about his responsibilities unlike
me. He is focussed and knows his job very certainly. With so many thoughts around a single point in
time I wonder why the research psychologists are not taking a que of me. The vehicle unexpectedly
growls to a halt. A traffic jam sir says Ramanuj. It couldnt have gotten better I whispered. To hell
with the job, I am returning back to home I said for the zillionth time to myself. It is challenging to
work on a Sunday and even more enduring to work for a reason of stupidity. Not that I work smartly,
the systems and processes in an uncontrolled organizational structure can be most of the times
unpleasant. Beat it when you have cross functional reporting managers. An obligation hard to deny
knowing the political background of the great motherland called India.

Hey bro where are you? What are you doing these days? How is life? Dont be low, we are there for
you. We shall find a way out! Think out of the box buddy! Do you still hangout at the cafeteria?
There is an opportunity in our organization, shall I send a reference? Goa? Goa? Goa? We never
missed Goa man, what happened to you? It was awesome. Remember when we stayed in the shack
opposite to the rocky mountains last year? We stayed at the Taj this time. Amazing man. I wish I get
an good appraisal this year. Hey bro, bro, bro. Seriously I never realised when my name was changed
to bro, my name still in the graduation certificate stands as it is. Some things are weird in life I should
say. A lot of things happen in a blink and a lot of things still remain the same even after decades.

She is drenched from top to toe. She soesnt even bother to carry a umbrella. With a half broken
incisor and a lot of reddish pink colored tobacco in her mouth she refuses to go home without a good
deal for the investment made. A heap of fresh potatoes and onion lay in front when she adjusts the
weight in the balance. A routine day for her at the office I imagine. Might have invested X amount for
the day with an expectancy of returning back to her cottage with X+n amount, n being a positive
integer. So she might be doing this on a daily basis. Money comes in and money goes out. Does she
maintain a balance sheet? Any tax liability she is entiltled too? Does she consult a Chartered
Accountant to prepare the profit and loss account? How does she do it? Does she pay bribe/rent to sell
products not on her property? What if she doesnt find the customers to increase her net profit
margin? Does she borrow money from lenders/bank? What rate of interest she borrows if she is
getting support from a Self Help Group? Does she give enough time towards her family? She ever
cry? She ever had fear? Is it out of necessity? How does she manage it? How does she defend
competition? What is the discounted rate of return? What might be the payback period of her
investment? What are her marketing strategies and how does she decide upon the location of doing
business?
You are a charming young guy. You intend to settle in life son? Hey there is jaw dropping offer on
this flat, you should really invest in this! There is this girl in our community who has completed her
masters would you like to see her? And so the unending pros and cons list is prepared sub-
consciously and surprise me if there is chance of the latter being weighed out by its competitor. The
brave few still manage to fight out like the great Hector up untill death, only to realize that it is their
pride and disbelief to let down the close associates. I confide in the boundaries of the society.

Still curios as to where this is leading too? I should ask the same to myself. A few points although
which shall surely be useful in thy conquest of life shall be from the documentary I watched a couple
of weeks earlier. Some motivational quotes I remember states that You are the creator of reality.
What you resist is what you perceive. In conjunction I also remember other quotes such as
Creativity is the residue of time waste. Some people see things as they are and ask why, I dream of
things that were never there and ask why not. It says that there is basically only two types of
emotion. The one which is Good and the other is bad. It is known as the emotional guidance system.
Once a person starts to think about a particular scenario in life as good, all other things irrespective of
circumstances and situations begin to feel and become good. The same implies to the opposite of it
too. When a person is actually thinking about the things not achieved/received, the person is actually
activating the emotional guidance system to keep thinking about the unachieved/unreceived
substance. In effect consequential Domino effect induces a whole scenario of circumstances leading
to unpleasant observations. It continues to say that the secret lays in three distinct conditions;

1. Ask

2. Answer

3. Receive

Ask what you want out of your life. Keep looking out into the box of possibilities you best think
is/will bring happiness to you. Decide upon the final possibility. Having completed the task of asking,
start answering the questions that arise. The solution is there in front of you. Just need to know the
way to reach it. Most famous people knew what they wanted to do but never recognized HOW they
wanted to reach there. Keep working towards your objectives the path shall unfold along the way. The
penultimate condition is to receive your thoughts and guide it in order to realize the dream/endeavor.
It sounds a bit awkward but Ramanuj did borrow 100 bugs to get high on the beer he sweared he
wouldnt think of consuming on that day!