Get lost pied piper!

Yea Ascom when was the last time you received a smirk, or worse, a snort when you told them what you were doing at college? Shouldn’t be in the distant past I suppose. Anything I tell you, anything other than engineering and medicine is looked at with scepticism.
“ Communication? Wow, great scope! You could try doing space resear-“
“ Urm.. Mass Communication not Electronics and Communication”
3 minutes of silence and a couple of disapproving expressions later
“isn’t that like a de.. de.. degree course( read nemesis) , huh?”
SO WHAT? How does that affect them? Some of them look at you as though you just expressed your deep desire to jump off the PETRONAS towers. “Degree course”. B.S.

Why on earth are we Indians so obsessed with engineering? How many of us doing that actually understand it? Let alone like it. in a country like ours “ fitting in “ or rather following the crowd is what is deemed appropriate... bramin- pray , kshatriya-fight , vyshya-business , shudra-the rest.. the new caste system- high-business, engineering, medicine , low- “degree course”.. Follow the pied piper.. join the Indian club of elite engineers! Please don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against engineers, or for that matter anybody else doing what they really like and believe in. It’s just that look of doubt that you get when you tell that u aren’t following the pied piper.

Yes I admit, some of us have taken Mass Communication not for the passion for it, it’s rather a means of staying as far away from equations and sums as possible and a few embarrassed (unnecessarily) because they couldn’t afford the high sums the management quota seats so covetously require. But don’t brand us incapable just yet..there are a substantial number of us who from the very beginning knew that all we ever wanted was to write or report or whatever! And do not underestimate those of us who have strayed into Communication unawares.... it could be love after marriage! Difficult perhaps but not impossible!

What if one mouse decides that this whole following thing isn’t meant for it? That its passion lies elsewhere? Can’t the pied piper just let it be? Can’t the other mice understand? Well, unfortunately they don’t . I desperately wish they would but they don’t. But, naah.. I’m not gonna give in just now.. throw all the looks of distrust and scepticicsm u want at me.. I believe that those of us who have estranged the pied piper will someday.. may be not right now, but some day soon be triumphant.. yea ascom we will..hum honge kamiyab ek din.. :)