Plan A is that I will migrate to US... I may go to Australia and then from there move to either Canada or US. “What was the plan B?” The plan B is to get married. If you are thinking about getting married for love, you are in for a big shock because love and all that stuff is not even a consideration here. In a competitive world, love takes a back seat and financial concerns take a more prominent role in finding a soul mate. Maybe the world soul mate is incorrect. Someone who has two post graduate degrees and used to earn money by teaching school kids told me his nuptial plans. If an ad was placed in the newspaper inviting suitable alliance, it would not have mentioned the personal qualities required but would have definitely have mentioned the educational qualifications. He told me that he would marry a girl who has a post graduate degree in biology. Why biology you may ask. Well he himself had studied everything but biology and a wife with a PG degree in biology would mean that they could cover all the subjects without hiring an outsider. This will enable them to offer a complete package to the students studying science. When I was getting married, I only looked for just one thing-will I be able to grow old comfortable with this girl?
When I look at people about 10 years younger than me, I feel very very scared. These people are none other than my friends, my cousins, my colleagues. They seem to be a lot more focused about life and what they want than I was at their age or maybe I ever was. I look at them and then I look in the past and feel I was nowhere as focused as these kids are and I see myself more as a rudderless ship wandering around at the mercy of waves. Thankfully the ship was in peaceful water and never hit an iceberg or else it would not have been able to cope with it.
I see people a lot more focused about their jobs. They know what they wanted to do while I was completely clueless even after completing college and should consider myself lucky that I still ended up with a okay career. Career is one thing I have seen people who are a lot more focused about who they want to marry and believe me, love has got nothing to do with it.
The other person who has fascinated me by her opinions is a girl who is also very successful in her career and has once rejected one boy who was apparently not ambitious and aggressive enough for her. He was in banking, doing reasonable good but I guess that was not good enough, the hunger to get even more was not there. When I heard this I thought if Mira had thought similarly and how it would have affected my life is she had... believe me, it would not have been happy.
