Did you all know where were you heading when you all started? I dont think so. Dreams, aspirations coupled with the wings of knowledge, youth and enthusiasm and you thought you will conquer the world. Little did you know that life demands more from you, infact more then you can give it back. Its simple ‘quid pro quo’. Everything comes with a price tag, not a tag which you can manage with the power of your pocket but the tag that is hard to satisfy and price that is hard to pay. As you go on living, you pay the price in terms of relationships, love, innocence, humility and probably biggest of them all, soul. Days, months and years pass and you go on living, sometime to become a nice other half in a relationship, sometimes a successful entrepreneur, sometimes successful leader and sometimes something else. You carry the burden of the expectations that the family is having from you and not to forget the friends and society at large. In a bid to comply with rules and following customs you forget to nurture the beautiful relationships of your younger, innocent years. You sacrifice friends who mattered, people who cared, teachers who made you what you are, parents who gave this beautiful life. You forget everything and join the rat race and with all the wisdom and knowledge that you claim to have, you never realize that even if you manage this rate race and win, you are still a rat.
And one fine day you realize that, this is not what you wanted. And Voila.
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13th March 2011
