A Life in AUDI Q5

This is the story of every Indian middle class young in today’s world. When he starts to step in the canvas shoes and join a school to cross the phase of literacy his parents start daydreaming and imagine their child in every possible uniform. Such fancy dress competitions come into their mind several times until their child chooses one of them. This is not their fault. If everyone is running in a race then it is natural to feel that our child should also take part in the race and always try to lead it.

What actually the child thinks. When his father drops him to the school on a scooter, he notices only the students who come in cars and wish to come in a car one day. The students in cars always think to come by bigger and luxurious cars. And they follow this trend in everything they use in everyday life. Eventually they get inducted to the disease called comparison. They take part in many competitions and try their best to come first. Those, who fail, start to prepare for the next and this goes on. As they grow, their dreams also show maturity. They step into the bigger world with growing number of greedy competitors.

Many dreams get trashed by the parents or sometimes the children themselves refuse to follow their capabilities and they choose maximum money giving career. There was my one friend who was preparing for IIT entrance exam. He always wanted to become an IAS officer. Once I asked him the reason behind choosing the different track and he simply stated that he was fulfilling his father’s dream and he was going to study for IAS after completing his engineering. What a trap that was!

Everyone has a clear idea about their goals by the end of the school life. Everyone decides to become a recognized doctor, engineer, businessman or at most a lawyer and get a bungalow or a sea face flat in Mumbai or luxurious one with well architecture in Gurgaon. Then buy a luxurious car, Audi Q5 in my case. They just want to throw this middle class life and want to be a millionaire in one night. But sometimes our own expectations kill our dreams.

Some fail at very first step and the number increases as they go further. Then also they don’t stop expecting, but reality comes on their way slowly and they start to reduce the number of goals. They dream of a luxurious flat without architecture. The car gets smaller. Their so called FUTURE plans become future plans. Once I met a friend who failed in almost every competition in his life and I was keen to know his future plans. According to him, the only way to live a luxurious life in his situation is to sell everything he has and buy his dream car, say Audi Q5 and spend his remaining life in it which was still impossible and virtual.

I found only conclusion from this and that is to stop expecting and start living.