Expressions!!

So finally it came. Took a long time though. I reckon that was due to the scant occupancy factor. But finally it did come. What?? Have some patience people I just started.
Just a nice chat kind of evening everybody in a light mood, cracking away a joke or two, enjoying the cool crisp perfect summer evening with all the lip smacking goodies( personal favorite of mine). Suddenly its time for the crappiest shit, one of the few things I really hate about being at home.
The topic good ol ominous “What is everyone else’s son/daughter is into??” So each of the esteemed member comes down with a story or two about his/her dazzling nephew/niece (niece only in rare case though, no offence meant. It’s in the figures!!!) . The whole thing goes like, “Tushar you know my _______’s son/daughter just took a flight off to Europe for 6 month training.” With the fire in place other people join in with their little pieces of news suprême. “ My ______’s son/daughter just joined ________(fill in any popular company’s name , people just love to fill it with Infosys though) and he/she is earning _______p.m.(an obscene amount which I doubt even the CEO of the company takes home). So it goes on and on and on. And mind you, you are not allowed to leave for the whole interlude (Beta kabhi to hamare se bhi do baatein kar liya kar din bhar TV aur laptop main hi laga rehta hai), you can’t raise a question about any of the fact( if someone says there is an IIT in Jaipur/Nagpur/anypur you have to gulp down that too, no point arguing) and don’t you even try to hide with the typical, “ Bekaar ki baatein hai I don’t care” cause the minute you utter that ghastly phrase you are doomed. You will get the choicest of REMARKS coming your way questioning your attitude, your behavior and a complaint being pushed toward the high command (read ma). God I hate (sometimes only) a joint family for the very reason.
I question why I must listen and pay any attention to any of this shitty stuff????
If someone is studying “Agricultural Engg” and getting a trip to Europe for it then god bless him!!! (Unless of course if he was interested in weeds all the way!!!) Why should I care? At least I have the satisfaction of living by my choices even if it means being tucked away in a crappy IET in a junk sort of university with its run of the mill students, highly COMPETENT and DEDICATED faculty , the BEST of testing methods and don’t even get me started on *****!!!!!
I guess it’s a trailer of the omnipresent devil, “Peer pressure”. Still lucky though that never got any of this coming from mom dad or the near-dear ones else it would have sounded much stingier. But even coming from others it is quite a pain. Why we can’t be judged on an absolute scale?? Why it always have to be a damn relative thing??
I think that is a mere reflection of the mentality of the great Indian middle class and its acute adherence to the importance of bank balance as a success criterion.
We people give a little too much importance to the money thing. Of course it is important, but still we sure overdo it and that too by a scale way past the acceptable standards. Personally I don’t go exactly by that criteria, to me a broke person who chased his dreams who took his decisions being driven by passion gets more rating points than any accomplished compromiser. I know I belong to a minority here but I am quite happy with that. In one way or the other all this mess around is related to this mad ruckus for filling up our coffers as soon as possible , more precisely faster than the person next to us. And in the process we lose most of the things that really matter. We trade our choices for a raise, push that love for something else down the drain for the plush office and sport, proudly, the tag ‘Happy and loving it’. But are we really?? Well that again is a relative question. Most are happy with whatever they get in the bargain some simply stop thinking this way and get engrossed in the spoils. Sorry for some but life story for the most.
But I’m not here to dish out any advice sort of things hence I won’t suggest anything to anyone but try , not always but sometimes let your true feelings make the decision it may not be as profitable as a ready compromise but at the end of the day you will definitely end with a smile.