No matter what your bank balance says, what car you drive, which house you live what food you eat, what clothes you wear . you would always be poor for what you want yourself to be
Our protagonist Raghav a talented network professional working in an MNC. Always dreams of promises of good life. Even when he was studying his graduation in a sub urban college of south india, He wanted to go creative way riding on his imagination and his internal literature quotient, his literature and Arts teachers use to give him A in all the exams in school . All his time he has been thinking of being a editor, script composer , creative director of an Advertisement company where people ride their ideas into the minds of clients who come with a ignorance of Marketing where its hard to establish difference between Marketing and Advertisement then they pump millions to back this very idea and launch it with fanfare.
Raghav enjoyed meeting many professionals from the world he wanted to be in, getting chance of meeting people whose flock he would join one fine day, going to festivals and seminars where people come from various cities showcasing their work and talent reminded him of his aspirations . One day he joined a club and on third day he met the Secretary of the club who was all energetic and creative person on first sight itself, with long hair and french beard, cheisel bones and lanky look, wore kurta and jeans . Raghav jumped up to him to talk his dreams out unaware of the what outcome this dialogue would be on his dreams . Going with a dialogue the Secretary of Art society he stumbled upon the saying which rang his mind so hard that he got rude shock "you dont get paid good in Ad-World" shock ripped his entire world, the world got shrunk, the dream of winning the best creative person of the year shook by an earthquake of 8 richter. His promise of good life deserted him at that very moment leaving a void tuning calling a hard decision to make, His cramp on choosing profession and choosing salary was hardest of problem he had faced ever coming terms with the reality was hard and shoving away was loosing eveything, over this there is no one who could take his decision for his cause.
With no idea of what he would get , with no foresight and experience , with no clarity Raghav jumped on the latter, a profession meant for money which atleast would give him comforts he desired . A profession which promises that he meets his ends easily, pays the bills easily
Network was a whole new world for Raghav, from playing with creativity he had to work more on the logics, paints and colors became schematics; His observations on people and their behaviour his knack of feeling the pulse was replaced by feeling the pulse of moving packets of data with tons of cables and blocks of routers Raghav began his journey
Started from campus he got his first job and he joined as Network trainee.
All his work charged him to know and sharpen his rationals, he toiled harder and sank deeper to the world of the IT . He started getting better as the new world was accepting him more each day he toiled, he was a gold digger the more he went inside the greater he got. His desire to earn higher salary and perks produced his grind. The words of creative wisdom were forgotten, his art quotient went silent and a new Raghav was born
Raghav joined a newer club, he became a family man when Ragini came into his life. Raghav and Ragini got married in low key affair in the dusty town of Maharashtra and his life had no change except he had to feed 2 and adjust things for 2.
Months passed and Raghav ran and worked his heart out, got promotions earned accolades. Customers came running for him for his assistance and consultancy, his organization treated him like a star. Raghav outgrew his in initial thought .
He fostered aspirations to earn more and his bank balances grew from thousands to lakhs and han more lakhs. He duplicated his one house to other and come into a newer league of HAVE CLASS . So on Raghav persued for more and more till he runs his life meticulously , craft his investments and grow more richer . Raghav was about to meet his realisation no matter how more he earns he is still poorer for his aspirations.
his countless effort to attain the affluence and lead a " have class life" made him go on the up up ladder. Whenever he moved up he got showers of wealth, praises and accomplishments, all the shower made himt adjusted to more money more affluence, more things that he never dreamt of . Every time he moved up and he had to procure more and his consumption became costlier. There arise the distance between his two ends of current and future, which he constantly worked to fullfill and never took rest . It was a catch up race from his one bedroom rented house to 2 bedroom to 3 bedroom than owning his own and going on and on ......
After years of toil and race run living in a worn out body one day he looked at his riches what he got and to his horror he found that he became more poorer to the future. The graphs of wants rises and so are the efforts to achieve but the feeling to look down brings a sense of relief that the past has left you and the feeling to look up brings sense of disapproval of current state and you get into another round of fight to make PAST leave , Raghav became a person to envy among his peers, a source of inspiration to juniors and star for his seniors the more he grew the greater sense of accomplishment occupied him.
The constant catchup became an unsatiable urge in every state of accomplished social status
every status demanded certain codes and expenses was need and so he could never show how much he had to his same status and superiors .
On a finer day he called it quit and ran back to his once upon a time deserted life of creativity where logics and affluence had lesser meaning , Raghav went for his enrichment and quested for riches he values. The curse of poverty eroded him with a new profound joy of wealth of inner peace , Affluence of JOY and satisfaction is hard to attain but our Raghav made it happened in this life and the greater part is there is no sense of comparison which depletes his status
Raghav lives more richer life with poorer tangible attribute, God bless RAGHAV
1 comment:
superlike...very well crafted.
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