“Arun , you should write an article on our school bulletin
board” , so said Ms Pratibha as she was going though his English essay . Arun
was in class 8th and was a decently good student. He was fairly good
in all subjects but English was his favorite and he was also the favorite of
Pratibha Ma’am. Arun un ladkon mein thaa jo ki class mein chup chip kar baithte
hain aur answers dene mein bhi katrate hain. Aise bachche lead a life of oblivion.
But Pratibha Ma’am tried her best to involve the back benchers of her class
always . Do you know one thing , in most of the schools , for recitation and
debates always the winners are kept giving chances to participate , but Ma’am
was different . She pulled students from the back benches and made them
participate giving them all the motivation that they could do . Isi tarah ek
baar assembly ke presentation mein hamare class se Zakir gave the welcome
speech. Who would have thought Zakir had an hidden orator in him , but he stunned everybody by doing an
excellent job. If only the winners are encouraged , the others could never be
getting opportunities.
Wapas Arun ke jeevan mein aate hain .Arun was now in the 10th
standard and he was doing fairly well . Ghar mein discussions had started on
what could be Arun career choice in the 11th standard . Papa was
pretty sure he had to follow his brothers foot steps . Arun ka bada bhai Engr
kar raha tha. Gaurav , Arun’s brother was doing well in his engineering and
Arun was always compared with Gaurav.
Arun , was clueless about his career and was going by his
father’s wishes. He had a small intention to take up humanities/arts subjects
par in sab subjects ka kahaan scope hota thaa. At least . Arun’s family
believed that Arts was for students with lower marks.
Jaisa ki bhedchaal ka trend thaa hi , Arun took up maths in
his 11th and started preparing for engineering competitive exams .
Kahin na kahin he had doubts about his caliber in Maths and Physics but he was
hoping to work hard and cover it up. He prepared for all the exams and somehow
managed to scrape through in one of the exams and joined for an engineering
course in a fairly decent college. There were the best of the techie students
from all over the country who had joined the college and it was just a matter of
time before Arun realized that Engrr was not his cup of tea . He never had the
technical flair in him . He was rattofying the theorems and equations and
passing through the semester exams . The concepts were , though , never clear
to him . But he had to keep up his Papa’s faith so he kept trying as much as he
can to get good marks.
He completed engineering and the job hunting started . The
campus selections could never accommodate him as he always failed to get into
the cut-off list. After completing the course as the core engineering line was
not offering any career opportunities for him , he decided , again following
the bhedchaal to do a computer course and join a computer course which was a
crash course of all the languages in a span of 6 months. With no previous
exposure to computers and programming , Arun struggled there as well , kisi
tarah complete kiya course.
Aakhir job mila and his career set off. Aaj its been quite a long while and Arun
theek hi kar raha hai apne career mein par dil se he was not very happy . He
always felt that he was not doing what he would have wanted to do . But kya
karta , there is not re-wind button in
life.
Yahaan pe the question is not the wrong choice of career by Arun , the question is , he was
equally under confident about making a career in Arts/Humanities. Saala aapko pata
hai hi nahin aap kisme achche hain tho aap kya karenge . Kya aisa koi aptitude
test hai jisse pata chale ki what stream
one should take up after 10th. Sab log bhed chaal ko hi follow kar
rahe hain. Kisi mein itna guts hain hi nahin ki apna kuch soche . Agar Madhavan
from 3 Idiots left his engineering career to take up wild life photography ,
why cant we? Babu.. Madhavan had that flair for photography , par aap mein aisa
kaunsa hunar hai , pehle usko samajhiye .
Ab is story ke Arun ko hi leejiye , he was clueless ki who kya karen.
Papa ke nasihat mein chalo career tho banaya even though not something of his
interest , Apne chakkar mein shayad kahin ka nahin rehta.
So , how many of us can actually understand the skills and
abilities of our children and groom them in that direction giving them the
needed confidence booster that they would excel in it even if they are very average.
Batao bhai log hawa mein hi baat karte hain , sacchai se
rubaru tho hoyiye… Try helping your children
choose there career wisely so
that they don’t have to regret the decisions like Arun…..
