*NOT* just another face in the crowd

Monday, September 11, 2006

Fe02 or Fe203..or..what was that???

You wake up one fine day and the realisation, that your life, is not your life anymore, hits you bad...! You are a mere puppet responding to the strings holding onto you from all possible angles, imaginary though it may be.
Cognitate on it and you end up questioning yourself. Am I that selfish? Narcissist am I? So be it! A hypocrite?? You could put that on the list too..

During an induction for my first job, we were asked to note down a point on a piece of paper that could be discussed in class. And, technical topics were not encouraged. 98% had come up with topics on Indian economy and politics. Few were on cricket too. Mine was the odd one out. The topic was "It is better to wear out than rust out". The trainer, I can still remember his helpless face. He asked one of my colleagues to present a sort of extempore on my topic..and that male expectedly panicked to which I couldn't help but gave myself a secret smile which I doubt was noticed by a few. And as expected, we gave that topic a miss since it was creating quite a confusion. Later, after class, my colleague who was asked to speak on my topic, came up to me
and gently reminded that my topic was unfair. It was not supposed to be philosophically inclined. Again, I couldn't help but smile.

You want to know why I've come up with this incident now? Simply because I felt like shouting out that its indeed better to wear out than rust out.
Never say die eh!