HOW TO NOT BE A BROKEN ANDA?

We live in times when competition is so fierce that even a hundred is not good enough. SRCC's 2015 cut off itself was 100.75. can you believe it? The Apsara guys would definitely be rejoicing since finally their projection of a boy getting 105 out of 100 has come true! Their sales have believed to be shot up because it seems now that the only way to get into SRCC is by using apsara extra dark and scoring extra marks for good handwriting.

But in times of such competition how can one determine their worth in a sea of people as good or even better than him/her? How can a person know that they are truly special when even the idea of being one in a million does not make you special? (In India, if you are one in a million, there are 1450 people just like you.) Hence, most kids nowadays face a sort of identity crisis; in a country with so many everybodies what will make you stand apart? How will you win this race? Since, life is a race, and if you don't run fast enough you would be a broken andaa right?

The answer, I believe, lies in changing the whole process of upbringing.

Usually, children are asked what do they want to become when they grow up. and usually in India, parents already pick out an answer for their kids in the form of doctors and engineers and every type of conventional profession that would keep you stuck in a rigid, unbreakable mould.

So what question should be asked?

What problem would you want to solve.

This question changes the whole dynamics of our existential crisis. We would no longer be just and engineer or a doctor or a teacher but a problem solver, an explorer, a discoverer, a person who is making his own little contribution in changing the face of the earth instead of just slogging for paychecks every passing month.

And then we would see, how our life changes for the better. How we become someone irreplaceable from just another.

If you don't believe me look at this kid who just figure out the puzzle and tell me she doesn't look satisfied.