The Sultry Harsh Water

We all are like fishes, which are groomed properly for more than two decades under, parental and teacher care. Lessons that are more important than just Newton’s laws are thought, lessons that teaches you inertia of life, that teaches you that for every action(good/bad) you will have an equal and an opposite (needn’t necessarily be) reaction. You are kept in an aquarium well fed and well nourished and are kept in a well maintained room temperature miles away from the harsh sun or rain.

The transition state (read as the state in between college and an actual job) comes a bit harsh at the fish as they are not given importance and are no more fed at proper times and nourished, they feel the harsh sun and rain and find it tough to digest. Boredom and idleness get on to them and they lose all the self confidence that they had in the aquarium (college) to conquer the ocean (the C world) . They become rather tired and fed up with life the harshness hits on to them and the drainage stinks. Unfortunately drainage is used to pump all the fish from aquariums to the ocean.

Tired of surviving in the drain the fishes are suddenly thrown into an ocean along with fishes of all kinds, fishes that never have been nourished in an aquarium to fishes that are harsh and street smart, fishes that have been in the ocean for years laugh at us and say welcome to “the real world buddy get used to the taste of this harsh and sultry water”. You need to survive, fight for food and shelter, stay away from the big fat fishes which might swallow you anytime and make fewer friends whom you can trust. Rebuilding your confidence that you have lost in the drain,the feeling which makes you feel like a useless piece of shit needs to be eradicated from your mind. Keep floating and keep going as many a new fish will enter the ocean soon and you might find it tough to find your own piece of food. This needs to go on till you are tired of doing it (till the day you say enough I have lived enough let me sleep till eternity)

Perhaps this the problem with most of the fish that grows in an aquarium without seeing the outer world, they are lucky to have a happy two decade of living at the beginning of the "never ending" but what’s their state after that. Many a fish drown to the immense pressure and the tide. Very few survive and most of us who do, learn to live with the sweet water (sultry water starts to taste sweet soon).

The compromise(life) continues...