The rains are here. So are the ‘Juniors’. Another week or so, and we would officially be crowned as ‘Seniors’ to a set of 200 odd students. In fact going through some of the “online meets” that the guys have organized, reminded me of our own foray back into the college. The Online, and the not-so-online meets.
Some one asked me, how does it feel to be a senior?
As if the feeling was as tangential as the answer to, how does it feel to be married, or probably how does it feel to be a father? How does it feel to hold aloft the World Cup?
Senior? *chuckle*
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. A totally indifferent feeling. A feeling very similar to that, when I underwent this very transformation in Junior College and Graduation. Somehow, the Gyaan-Giving Sessions, Induction in the form Introductions and the so-called Connection during “Ragging” Rendezvous is not for me. Unless someone actually walks up to me and asks for it. They all say that MBA’s biggest take-home is the networking. Knowing more people than others. I call this a forced form of networking.
And even if networking is the reason, is this a way to go about it? Well, frankly, I have no answers. I just know, that I have survived, and decently so, over the last 25 years without making any conscious effort to network, and I think I will continue in the same vein in the future as well. Till, probably, it becomes impossible to.
Probably I am just too apprehensive of the word Senior. Given that the 8-10 year old boys that come home for tuitions from Dad, already address me “Uncle”. Probably it is the now-oft used term, “quarter-life-crisis” that bothers me and makes me want to be isolated. Probably the conversation I had with a friend who spoke about Giant Robots, He-man and even Ramayana and Mahabharata that we caught on that channel called Doordarshan not so long ago is still fresh in memory like it’s just happened yesterday.
Probably I should get back to playing cricket every Sunday evening.
I am only 25. Senior Citizenship begins at 60.
Mathematics tells me its 35 years away. So does Logic.
I want to sit back and enjoy life
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
I aint no Senior...
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3 comments:
Njoy life in the best possible way in the next one year.. after that, once work life begins, it will be much more difficult...
yeah Sriram, I understand, grass always grows green on the other side, when I was working, I wanted to get to college and now, back to work :-)
And enjoy I am going to, but it will happen my way. Somehow, I feel that one gets caught up in the herd mentality needs to be got better of.
Thanks for stopping by mate, hows work going?
work is fine.. tryin to get a grasp of things.. will stabilize in a month or so...
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