THE ROAD NOT TAKEN?

"I regret not taking Arts as my career. I would've benefited better.", my mother keeps telling me. She is still depressed about opting for Science in her college years rather than Arts. She is a good speaker which would make her a good TV journalist or an announcer in an airport or so. Instead she has to supervise a bunch of Junior Middle School kids due to her wrong choice. I can't say the choice is completely wrong, but she not a clue about what she was going to do after doing exceptionally well in Chemistry in her college years.

"What do you want a become when you grow up?", a mother asks her four year old boy.
"A policeman!", the kid answers instantly.
"You need to work really hard for that."
"Sure I will."

Ten years later..........

"What are you planning to do after school, young man.", the mother asks her fourteen year old son.
"I've not a clue.", he says indignantly.
"You'd better think about it."
The boy shrugs.

This is the truth of life. No one knows what they are going to do until it is too late. It is like booking tickets for an eight'O clock in the evening flight, at seven fifty nine on the same evening. What would anyone possibly expect? All three hundred tickets available? That'd be high expectations! There's also another side of the story. Adults keep asking us to be punctual about things, especially things like choosing your God forbidden career. I'm telling you the adults cannot make head and tail of punctuality either. It is just like in Lewis Carroll's story, The Hunting of the Snark,

"What's the good of Meracator's North Poles and Equators,

Tropics, Zones and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry;

and the crew would reply, "They are merely conventional signs."

The adults are just like the crew members, and we kids are the bellman. We keep asking our parents about the need of punctuality, maybe they would give us a big lecture, but their minds are just like the crew members, they just know that such a word exists in the English Dictionary. No one can make head and tail of punctuality. 

Coming back to career, according to our parents and teachers, there's no career without proper attitude, I agree, but again, just a bit! I mean what good is attitude, without knowing what you are going to do? What good is being a good Samaritan, if you do not know what you can do? No one is going to give us a job. Now-a-days, parents are so fast. They first talk about studies, then it is attitude, then about career, they never ever stick to one topic. They confuse you more than you are already, I mean I understand advice, but not bugging. I'm in ninth grade, I've not a clue, about what I'm going to do, maybe it is too late, to not know, but even if I did know, how do I know if I'm making the right choice?

Robert Frost is a great poet, and maybe he faced a lot of difficulties in life, but not everyone is Robert Frost, and neither can anyone, have so much courage as Robert Frost, to take the road that is lush green. Risk taking is a thing only a handful of people can do successfully. What good is taking risk, when it has no benefit?

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

He is really poor,

he wished the adamant butterfly hadn't gone past.

If he had not seen the fool, he would've been sure,

That his vexing boss and demanding daughter would have been his jobless cure!

                                                                                                                    -K

Then there is the butterfly effect! God alone knows whether it really exists. We always wish that when something wrong happens, that it hadn't happened. Then when we think about the butterfly effect, we suddenly change our minds. When we come to think of it, if it hadn't happened most probably, something else would have happened, something BAD! Maybe even worse, so it's good that the past was the past rather than something else. Of course there would be many parents who're in the age group where you get superstitious. They keep telling superstitious and unexplainable things just because it is written in some holy book or some astrologer has said it out. Many who believe such things. We can't change the past, but our parents will even stop us from thinking about changing it.

Many times our parents ask us to be the man or woman of our words! They also compare us to them, by saying that they're the man or woman of their words! Well, how many times have they not taken us out for ice-creams after promising to do so? A hundred times maybe!

This post is dedicated to parents who want their children to prosper! Some tips are:

1. Stop asking your children until their seventeen, about their career.

2. Stop asking them to be punctual all the time(until it is absolutely required, rather than when you feel it is absolutely required).

3. Stop talking about attitude all the time.

4. Stop asking them to be Robert Frost!

5. Stop being too superstitious.

6. Stop being a man or woman of your words!

7. Stop asking them to take the 'Road Not Taken'!

Hasta la Vista,

K