What Time Can do.

Time can make you forgive yourself for the mistakes you made. It can make you break the promise, to yourself, of making good the mistakes. It can make you sleep as if nothing happened. It overthrows conscience.

It can make the joyful moments at the parks with mom, dad and brother, just a cute memory for minds. It can make the adorable parents suspicious of their own children. It can make the same kids who played in the dad’s arms pure liars and crooks. It can make the same kids clever enough to crack jokes on their friend’s dads. It can turn the single room and kitchen home- with one family, into a double bedroom hall and kitchen apartment with busy individuals.

It can turn the best friends into ‘just another casual friend.’ It can make people meet new ones and forget old ones. It can change the priorities from blind faith and truthfulness, to need, later to choices and chances.

It can make you meet special people. Who can make magic happen. Who can make the factors of time and space irrelevant, insignificant.

It can make success seem too small.

Time can kill the creativity of the empty mind. It can make the colorful ambitions too silly now.

It makes you believe that everything is a just part of life. It proves that everything is part of the big plan. And later that there was no plan. All the small things were life.

The real studies

These days, I have started working on my C.A final syllabus. And I start wondering what I have learned through this journey from childhood to high school to college to finally just being a step away from being a professional. I mean, the childhood and high school stages can solely be attributed to growing up as a person, but you’d expect the later stages to be more specifically knowledge oriented. Like helping you stand out of general public and say I can do this in a way you can’t imagine.

I don’t know about some specific courses like MBBS – they specialize in killing people, legally, or the prestigious MBA’s, but I do know about C.A. The exams are tough, the syllabus is huge and you’ll have to spend sleepless nights to remember some laws. Maybe it’s just me, but the bottom line after spending 2 full years living the core subjects is that I’ll have to work really hard from now on to earn myself a job. I either don’t remember any thing I learnt to come to this stage be it Taxes or Accounts or Laws, except the basics or it is too insignificant for the real world. Or maybe it’s because of my disastrously poor memory. I have to start from the very basics which I have understood at the foundation stages. Ask me a simple Tax provision. I don’t remember, I might take a guess. Ask the heading of Accounting standard 22, well, don’t even try me. Believe me when I say that a 12^th pass out with above average marks can stand beside me with the same knowledge I have with just 3 to 4 months of full time hard work. It is no magic. I know for certain that the local engineers, who will go on to work on processes which are no way related to their lab experiments, will agree on that view.

The conclusion has to be that all we are learning here is just how to learn and adopt. And of course some posh English to help us get the BPO job, thanks to FB’s, Orkut’s and SMS offers.