Within the concrete jungles of India, there live a unique set of people, who, every year in the Jan-Feb time frame, start living for 3 things - Verbal, Quant and DI. Now for the uninitiated, and you do have to be from a galaxy far far away to be so, these are the 3 pillars on of the dreaded Common Aptitude Test aka CAT!!!! The dreaded billi which has consumed many a sane mind. Young, and not so young, graduates go absolutely crazy to bell this billi to be Mediocre But Arrogant.
I dunno what was the figure this year, and I don't care, but it it was close to a zillion, and every year it is a zillion more. A zillion people fighting for a seat in a few "prestigious" (and I mean the quotes) B-Schools in India. Only a fraction, and I mean a paltry 0.1%, actually get to live their dreams, and the rest are left to bite the dust, feeling that life is just not worth living anymore.
But as the poet says,
"I get knocked down..
But i get up again..
You're never gonna keep me down!!!"
But i get up again..
You're never gonna keep me down!!!"
Same is the case with these folks. Another year, another CAT, and another, and another.............. Man! Even the Enterprise wasn't out for this long.
So what happens to these poor, lost souls? How do they get out of this vicious circle of examinations? Well most never do, not completely anyway. They keep pounding away, adding and subtracting (no time to multiply!!!), correcting sentences, reading page after page after page of dreary monologues about gene theory and the masturbation cycle of birds, and filling missing numbers into tables mysteriously burnt by fire. And the whole wondering what possible use this will be in their future.
The elders say "Don't worry about the result... Just keep working hard. Results will follow." Well, obviously these elders never made it themselves. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! The result does matter. Year after year people are giving up their lives to cram a few math and english problems. Imagine all the movies you could have watched if you did not have to write all the SIM CATs and AIM CATs and MOCK CATs on Sunday afternoons. Imagine all the partying you could have done on Saturday nights had you not been mugging up formulae for the Sunday exams.
C'mon people!!! Live life the way it should be lived. You ain't gonna be in your 20-s forever. So please... go out, have some fun, read a good book, watch a good play. Do something with your life rather wasting it in the pursuit of your seemed happyness. Because believe you me, the effort is never going to be worth the time you lost.
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