Most of my friends have now
reached the age of puberty and in few years they would get married and this “Marriage”
would be the next major event in their life. So I thought this story of Sai and
his marriage would be the best one to start the blog post with.
Let me introduce Sai here. Sai is
one of my best friends and happened to study with me during Engineering. We
were in the same batch studying ECE in a top Mumbai based engineering college.
He was a decent boy with no passion towards any sports, technology or any damn
thing whatsoever. His only passion in life was to amass more and more money. Sai
was never inclined to engineering or any technical field. He was here because
his parents felt it was right for him. After completing (“struggling with”
should be more appropriate) Engineering in 4 years, he got a decent paying placement
for a monotonous job in IT company. Now you would think that’s a common story
like yours. Then you are right to some extent. The monotony was so boring that
he decided to do something exciting. And you guessed it right – It was MBA. He
thought he would take Finance and learn how to make more money, pursue his
passion and come close towards his goals - A common misunderstanding which
most people have when they join MBA to pursue Finance.
He gave CAT and got through one
of the top B-Schools of Delhi. Even though the fee was high, he thought it to
be an investment which would yield life-long benefit – again a common misunderstanding
applicants have while joining MBA.
In those 2 years of MBA, he took all Finance subjects the college ever
taught in its lifespan in the hope to find the magic wand to make more and more
money. 2 years passed by but he neither found the magic wand nor was able to
recoup the investment made by him for the course. However as all the MBA grads
say, MBA teaches you to be tough, gives you a way of life, and makes you think
you are destined for higher roles, (the reality being you still do not have a
damn idea in what shit you are and how deep you are in it) in a similar way
Sai’s perspective towards life also had dramatic shift. The loan and other
liabilities force you to console yourself with this tragedy that whatever happened
to you was for the better of it and you start accepting the reality in its true
form.
Story Continued...... (Justification of dowry)
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