I'll cut down right to the chase. I think, it’s
a chaotic world. No one knows what are they doing and what are they supposed to
do in their limited time here. The world is one big giant unruly mesh of
confused people roving around with his own perceptions and delusions of the big
picture wandering in this huge jungle, we call ‘Life’. Money drives most of
them; well some of them at least, the rest blindly follow the select few believing
that their destination might as well be their own, only because everyone else
is on the same road, in the same race, and of course, ‘Everyone’ can’t be wrong !
It’s a vicious cycle where each follows the other thinking that the latter
might know the road ahead. NO ONE THINKS.
Cut to
scenario 2, where I might have over-thought the scene here. Everyone knows
everything they need to know, and see precisely what they are doing. Every
person before me has already thought all about this (what I am beginning to
think. Quarter-Life crisis, maybe) and decided that since happiness is extremely
rare, it’ll be available only to a chosen few. And to select those few, there’ll
be a test. A brutal cut-throat test where the objective is to earn money, as
much as you possibly can. The ones who pass attain happiness. The ones who don’t
toil for the rest of their lives, on the very road. Short, simple and sweet. Money
= Happiness. Concise and precise. So, apparently, I don’t have a clue what I am talking
about and am completely disillusioned while everyone in fact is on the correct
path, where they know exactly what they want, why they want, and what they’ll
do with it once they get what they want, or at least what they are going after.
(I actually remember an exercise, where we were meant to speak our plans if we
had 10 crore rupees to be spent in 10 days. Spent, not invested or donated.
Spent. Everyone fared poorly. Strange, eh?).
Although
I am not absolutely sure, let’s assume that I am not insane (for now) , because well, I am
the one writing here.