Quandary
After a rigorous session of contemplation and brainstorming with my hostel chumps , I was compelled to introspect. Am I not seeing the greater picture? Is getting good grades at college and then getting a good job and a secured future is all there is to life? Do we not have a more meaningful purpose? Is the real purpose getting obliterated by humanity's perpetual race for material goods? Is the "system" that the world follows,nothing but a stratagem to shroud the path of enlightenment? Since time immemorial we have all heard about sages renouncing the earthly pleasures for attaining "moksh". The idea seems too abstract and surreal to me. But what if that is what we are really supposed to do, rather than giving in to the day-to-day frivolous deeds? I'm not quite sure that reading algebra or about dead scientists,sociologists,and political philosophers would get me anywhere in life. You might think I'm gonna talk about completely engrossing myself with s...