Cynically yours!!

My so-called prep for CAT has shown me how easy it is to be cynical. Remember the story of the sour grapes. When things are difficult, tending to downright impossible, you start looking at them with “objectivity”, so to speak. You look at them for different angles - acute and obtuse but not so right… and reflexive? You are capable to do all kinds of manipulations, calculations, estimations, assumptions etc. You apply all kinds of permutations, probability, allegation, Weird-Greek-Philospherus’s theorems; and arrive at a derisive conclusion. You question the purpose and the very being of everything closely related to the CAT and an MBA degree.

Who is to be blamed? ‘Halaat ne majboor kiya’ syndrome is the best possible explanation. The ubiquitous pressure to be successful that has hounded us all our life. Ironically, the most immeasurable of quantities is comprehensively quantified by various parameters, by people who have the least of it. And let’s face it; everyone wants to be successful, as it is a bare necessity to stand upright in the “society” with your nose facing north. Hence, the Great Indian Software-professionals’ Exodus to B-Schools all over the globe. We are all looking for our pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (read MBA).