“Circles” – Life as a 23 year old…

Back in the 90’s, when I was young and energetic and not so charming, although I’m not sure I am now or not, I had this thought every now and then it would be much better to live your own life, earn and spend my own money on myself
on may be on friends or buy whatever I wanted to.

Then I entered university and though that college was “the Best” place that there is in a person’s life and to be honest, everyone agrees to that as well. Even though I had good times in the university, it still did not satisfy
me. The twin sides of the culture always made me mad at it and one way or the other I had to get out of it…the problem was I had to complete my education first.

And so I did. And if someone had asked the worst time of my life…I never had to think twice and answered “the university”. Well that went by and I was one of those blessed people who got a well paid job the moment I became a
graduate. And for some reason I thought that this is it. A life where I earn and no one is there to ask me where to spend and where not!!

My parents were and are really happy with my achievement, happy that I came out to be one of those Children who are, somewhat, a less burden on parents. However, what was going through my head after some months of working was…a
repetitive life.

I get up, go to work, comeback home, go for a little workout, go out to meet friends and comeback home, sleep and when I wake up…I realize…I will do the same that day as well. Why? Because I am dependent, dependent on my parents
wishes to become a well earned person so that they can get started with the next level to my life when I have not even discovered what I need to get out of my life.

Money is one factor that is the biggest problem and the biggest dependency. To be honest, I had motivation to work but for the time being it feels like that I am working just to feed myself and retaining form being a burden on
my parents, leading me to live a life that is not much different that a circle.

If it was only this that parents wanted their children to become what they want to be, it would’ve been a better ending to my story, a happy one I presume. Why is that that an engineer or a business student can only get a good
job? And why do companies have a repetitive job where you know you have to do the same old lame thing every day again? I have that in my life now and I believe that my years of freedom were those when I used to study. Now, its just the same every day I wake
up.

Our nation is one hell of a hard worker. And adding to the hard work, we are extremely intelligent. We can create things that prove to be ground breaking. However, the only problem is we are bound in this unusual circle where we
are tough nothing but striving for money in-order to live our live.

May be our generation should change the shape of our life from a circle to a never ending straight line, where every new thing…is a past…the next day.

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Posted by Khayyam Bokhari on Nov 24 2011. Filed under Editorial, Opinion, Society. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry