Today, would like to extend a strong applause to everybody who came from middle class families. So many dreams, sacrifices our parents, grandparents have had for us, so that our generation could be a step ahead of where they were. In my view, we all have been survivors! Survivors who stood by each other when; cash was low & aspirations bigger, absence of muscle led head strong determination, smaller dreams led by bigger ideas! These middle class families have produced stalwarts like Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar, APJ Kalam, Manmohan Singh, Gandhiji, ShakRukh Khan, Narayan Murthy, just to name a few from every walk of life. We have seen it all, the long lines for school admissions, the tensions to get through engineering/medical, & then to make it big in the corporate world. Communism was the thing of 50/60s, rock n roll of 70s & being middle class has been fashionable ever since I guess. Today, in Asia (India, China, Japan), Europe, US middle class forms a society, which is most influential in contributing toward economics, academics, entertainment or technology. Do the limited resources & lack of complacency fueled by a strong desire to make it bigger with every generation help the middle class achieve their dream? Most inspiring is when we see people like Narayan Murthy promote a modest life style when he can afford any luxury known.
I don’t say it is a handicap to be born with a silver spoon in mouth, it might be an entirely enticing life out there which I am not aware of & don’t miss it either. Yeah, glamour is a whole new concept as well, but it’s so damn glamorous to don success without being glamorous!
However, although trying not to sound pompous, although our nose in air, feet are firmly grounded on the earth!
I don’t say it is a handicap to be born with a silver spoon in mouth, it might be an entirely enticing life out there which I am not aware of & don’t miss it either. Yeah, glamour is a whole new concept as well, but it’s so damn glamorous to don success without being glamorous!
However, although trying not to sound pompous, although our nose in air, feet are firmly grounded on the earth!
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hmmm....I like the last line.. nose in the air but feet firmly planted on ground... I think all of us who have seen our parents really struggle hard to give us what they have, we really are like that with dreams soaring high, but still very much in reality.
@goli, thanks!
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Very nicely written and very empathetic thoughts:) I totally feel so aligned with it. Thank you.
Rinku
I just hope our kids, whom we r so daring to raise in USA, do something in their lives too ;-)
i think its always a personal choice... about living the lifestyle we live... and ultimately we are the choices that we have made...
those who have been rich from birth would be out of their comfort zone to live a less glamorous life... but some of those who have seen it all, really see no great pleasure in leading those posh lives when they get the chance...
I guess it all boils down to what experiences life throws at us and how we react to it...
and the good news is that those experiences are thrown at each and everyone one of us... and when we want to move out of that comfort zone then we woud definately be hit with obsacles..
so does the determination beget the obstacle, or the obstacle beget the determination :-)
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