Change!

There is a week left before I head off to the Promised This made me reflect into the things that have really amused me over these last few days.

A couple of weeks back I had been to Mc Donalds on Brigade Road along with a really close friend of mine. After all the struggling we eventually found a place to sit beside these kids who were about 10 – 12 years old. While we were sitting there and catching up we over heard the conversation going on between them. These kids were actually talking of relationships and dumping and all that crap. But the worst part of it is this they were so skimpily clad that it shocked me to think whether puberty had also hastened like the sudden desire for young kids to get laid!

About a week later I had been to my cousin’s house. Her daughter who is exceedingly cute was displaying her very innocence in front of everyone (if you get what I mean). This made me think about the day at McDonalds. Those 10 years old kids were once just like my niece. Sadly though 8 years of growing up made them into this!

Do we need to think of it? I mean come on if you guys are of my age I d like to know if your parents would even like the idea of you talking to the opposite sex at the age of 10! Thus the big question came up, Are we to blame their parents? I mean to think of it we guys too have been bitten by the love bug, some successful while others not very. This very bug which has biten us and these kids parents is now biting them at much earlier age. Is there anything they can do about it? I hardly doubt it. Today the world has become so career and money oriented that some of these parents even forget about the existence of their kids. Needless to say these kids are just an early reflection of their parents.

Now why the bloody hell am I writing this, well because I am off to the land where kids talking about dumping and relationships at this age is freaking normal. Contrary to which you are quite the abnormality! Well a week before I leave I just hope that the things I find insanely absurd here don’t actually become a part of me.

Do things happen for a reason?

Two and half years in a relationship with someone you thought you really cared for, but at the end it just seems nothing. But then when you try and introspect on the things that happened you believe that things do happen for a reason. In my case it seems that my entire life somehow still revolves around this relationship .

Come July, 2007 someone told me that their plans for higher education had finally taken shape and the desired branch and college were mentioned to me. This sparked me to go through their website seeing whether it was a potential place where I could apply. It just wasn’t! So then I decided to look at colleges in and around that area. Finally I came across University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Looking through their site I suddenly decided to develop a strong fetish for Aerospace Engineering, I must confess here that I was purely interested in Mechanical Engineering only. Thus my pursuit for the university began, securing of vital information from Indians and couple of my seniors. Little did I know while all this was happening that the actual reason for which I was applying to this university would never happen.

Almost six months after that doomed day I secured admission into the university, I had hardly even thought I'd end up taking it because of the cost and the way the graduate coordinator behaved. Ironically so I remember even telling that someone that I would not take up Ann Arbor. Somehow or the other I just landed up taking it.

Whether it is the right decision or not I just cannot say, only time will have to tell. But what I do know is that sometimes you may have thousand opportunities lying at your threshold and yet you just might end up doing something quite unexpected.

I know people would love to criticize me here and say that I am being an idiotic baboon. But the thing is I am sure all of us have asked ourselves many times ‘Do things happen for a reason?’ We can either question the outcome or accept the path already laid out for us and make the best of it. Sometimes its worth introspecting as it helps you realize alls not lost, there has been some good out of it!