Okay! So how are we doing today!??
If I had asked this question to someone(of my caliber and aptitude that is ahem ahem) a year ago, the reply would have been a chirpy and high spirited "O nothing much man! But you know wat i'm going to get a fantastic job(the idea is that we were high spirited back then with placements being ensured and all that)!
Cut to 2009 (mid-latish! hopefully economic condition will be ok by mid-latish 2010)! I go upto someone and ask the same aforementioned question and the reply comes "O nothing much man! And you know wat, I don't think that I'll be getting a job after all! boo hoo(to add to the whole effect)!!
So what was the reason for this detrimental (more like totally mental)turn of events!!!
Well! The answer my unaware reader is Recession, yeah the most famous word in the world right now, ECONOMIC RECESSION. ( point to be noted : it happens to be the most famous word in the world, but when you go upto a "learned" bloke and ask him/her the reason for this recession or what is it exactly, the reply would be a "Uh! um! uhhhhhh! eh! ooohhhh! Hey I'm getting late, I really gotta split! Catch you later!")
Yeah so what I just wrote above wasn't all that informative, was it!! Recession!! so what!! big deal!!, we all know everything about it! But I was writing about the replies of confident people at different times, wasn't I! So concentrating on that!
So back in the day(I say it like this because it really feels as if the good old days were a looooong time back), a person would come up to me and say "Are you filling up the pre SSB form?","Are you trying out for Google internship?","Are you interested in a demonstration at this very important company which would help you get a job?", my answer would be a flat "No", because I knew that all this was just plain "unnecessary" and that my job was "ensured" by the "college placement cell". Recession has, you could say, marked a small crater on that confidence.
Now I go upto people to ask"When's the CDSE coming out?","Should I apply for NSE exam?","Shouldn't we also apply for BSF and maybe for Railway engg exam as well to go with?" as if my life depended on the opinion of the listener.
Are those discarded offers and chances coming back to haunt us!!!!
What are we feeling at these crossroads(just adding to the effect) of our lives! Are we feeling a simple "depressed" because we don't think that we might be able to land a job in these gruesome circumstances; or are we hopeful that maybe the recession cloud will finally lift and everything will be back to its previous glorious self; or are we confident that there's going to be major downs in life as there are going to be ups, what matters is how we rise from our downs and try, try to transform them into our ups; or are we impressed at the amazing writing skills of the writer who manages to confuse the reader yet bring the message across fantastically in a subtle way(had to add that).
So what are you going to be now! Taking a page out of Lance Armstrong's book(yeah he has written a book but this is just a phrase, so don't start reading his book now, or you could if you're a fan and don't have anything to do in your life, like preparing to get a JOB most likely) I'd say that we could only fight and hope to live strong.
