Why has God created neighbours? Those nosy, know-it-all, humbugs who think it is their birthright to pass judgments about your life, your friends, your decisions. Back off, I do not allow my parents to tell me whether I should do this or do that who the hell do you think you are to just walk up to me one morning and give me a sermon about life?
I was never great around preachy people, and this morning a particularly surly man totally ruined my day and there came a point in between Lords and Rashbehari when I actually was torn between an urge to strangle him, throw him off the bus or get off myself. Finally I just put my glares closer to my eyes and looked out of the window into the sun.
He has this great notion about which job is good and which is not, when a person should get married, who a highly educated and revered person in a society is. And all coming from the father of a son who is a school dropout and a daughter who is a slut who should have graduated by now but is still in school.
Why cannot these people simply mind their own business?
He gave me a slew of examples to prove that studying and studying alone can exalt you in this life. According to him Bill Gates is a brilliant scientist. True enough, but if not for his business sense Bill Gates wouldn’t be who he is. Also if you think studying business is bullshit you don’t know anything about life dear. If you think business is so trashy then don’t go do the audit firm you work for each day, because *clap clap* clarification… auditing falls in the purview of business.
Also one of the greatest scientists of all times, Thomas Alva Edison, was also the founder of the greatest company in the worl GE Capital. Have you heard of that? Why am I wracking my brain, he doesn’t even know who Narayan Murthy is and why I was comparing Bill Gates with Steve Jobs.
And it is sad because he is a JU alumni. I believe he supports all those clandestine value paths he cannot explain but thinks he should be part of just because it is a fad. And he has always been this way. Yes I know the type, I met a few during college.
