Confessions Of a Frustrated Teen.
Dear Generation Now,
we often hear parents-fathers,mothers,uncles,aunts scream in horror at their ward's decision of becoming a model or an actress or a fashion designer (thanks to Bollywood and madhur bhandarkar who make these professions even more detestable and disgusting than actually are)followed by their disgust is a series of reasons that they give you .-
1."Its such an uncertain career"
2."The moment you turn 30 ...boom! your career ends".
3."Disgusting....thats what your colleagues will be"
and so on till an aspiring Miss India ,Mr. Universe.....ambitious Manish Malhotras to be kill their dreams.
No dear readers these ain't the complaints of another aspiring teen model(what the...if you saw me then you would surely conclude that i m not even fit to star in a "rin supreme" ad)....what i truly am at this moment is a frustrated medical aspirant.No my patient listeners,not one whos been coaxed into aiming medical like most other entrance toppers in this country but a passionate one and do you know why i am frustrated ....its because after two years of breaking my back over giant killer books of chemistry,swimming in the marshy algal floors of biology and trying to update my problem solving instincts to Einstein's level i haven't succeeded.I have failed to clear my medical entrance tests.
Now lets come to the point...i won't bore you with my melodrama and i m not good at it anyways.Aspiring to get in the top medical colleges in the country isn't any different than trying to get a role in yash raj films.(trust me....its 100% true).The greatest similarity being 1)in both these fields dreams break and they frequently break.
2)we only concentrate a)the shining people on the silver screen whos made it to the top
b)the entrance test toppers bearing laurels -obviously the mothers pet,the pride of the state.
But have you ever thought about a)those extras and the bit players who inspite of having big dreams and in some/most cases talent who bear so much of pain of being the doctors of the hero's mother,drive a taxi carrying the romantic heroine and yet not be in that position,so near yet miles and away......
b)and have you ever given a thought to those poor little indians(I would say India as no other country in this world has so much competitive exams for various professions) who give up almost their entire young lives trying to earn a seat in a major educational institution and then at the end of two years find that it was all futile and that some nerdy momma's boy boasts complacently that the reason he sat that particular entrance was a part of some silly academic challenge he took up and that he had no desire whatsoever to study medical science.
Yes GenNoW ,bitter though i may seem this is the story of hundreds of such dedicated people in the country who never make it to the top and burn in the smugness of so-called toppers.Beleive me,education is as dirty ,as manipulative,as uncertain a field of life as so-called "disrespectable" professions such as modelling.
Thus I end my blog at a grim note,but fear not the burning intensity of ones academic desires surely benefits one some day or the other.
Thanks For Being the most patient audience i have encountered,
Molly,
p.s Gonna drop this year and try for the exams again next year.......some desires never go away.
we often hear parents-fathers,mothers,uncles,aunts scream in horror at their ward's decision of becoming a model or an actress or a fashion designer (thanks to Bollywood and madhur bhandarkar who make these professions even more detestable and disgusting than actually are)followed by their disgust is a series of reasons that they give you .-
1."Its such an uncertain career"
2."The moment you turn 30 ...boom! your career ends".
3."Disgusting....thats what your colleagues will be"
and so on till an aspiring Miss India ,Mr. Universe.....ambitious Manish Malhotras to be kill their dreams.
No dear readers these ain't the complaints of another aspiring teen model(what the...if you saw me then you would surely conclude that i m not even fit to star in a "rin supreme" ad)....what i truly am at this moment is a frustrated medical aspirant.No my patient listeners,not one whos been coaxed into aiming medical like most other entrance toppers in this country but a passionate one and do you know why i am frustrated ....its because after two years of breaking my back over giant killer books of chemistry,swimming in the marshy algal floors of biology and trying to update my problem solving instincts to Einstein's level i haven't succeeded.I have failed to clear my medical entrance tests.
Now lets come to the point...i won't bore you with my melodrama and i m not good at it anyways.Aspiring to get in the top medical colleges in the country isn't any different than trying to get a role in yash raj films.(trust me....its 100% true).The greatest similarity being 1)in both these fields dreams break and they frequently break.
2)we only concentrate a)the shining people on the silver screen whos made it to the top
b)the entrance test toppers bearing laurels -obviously the mothers pet,the pride of the state.
But have you ever thought about a)those extras and the bit players who inspite of having big dreams and in some/most cases talent who bear so much of pain of being the doctors of the hero's mother,drive a taxi carrying the romantic heroine and yet not be in that position,so near yet miles and away......
b)and have you ever given a thought to those poor little indians(I would say India as no other country in this world has so much competitive exams for various professions) who give up almost their entire young lives trying to earn a seat in a major educational institution and then at the end of two years find that it was all futile and that some nerdy momma's boy boasts complacently that the reason he sat that particular entrance was a part of some silly academic challenge he took up and that he had no desire whatsoever to study medical science.
Yes GenNoW ,bitter though i may seem this is the story of hundreds of such dedicated people in the country who never make it to the top and burn in the smugness of so-called toppers.Beleive me,education is as dirty ,as manipulative,as uncertain a field of life as so-called "disrespectable" professions such as modelling.
Thus I end my blog at a grim note,but fear not the burning intensity of ones academic desires surely benefits one some day or the other.
Thanks For Being the most patient audience i have encountered,
Molly,
p.s Gonna drop this year and try for the exams again next year.......some desires never go away.
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