It has been a little over two months that the soil beneath my feet has changed. After all the hemming and hawing (within the confines of my cranial chamber of course) about where to work and stay, I have finally landed up in quite a decent spot. That, of course is by my definition. I have been told that I should be getting paid almost double of what I am getting at the moment, that I should be sitting in my boss' chair, that I should "realise my worth", etc. The "foreign degree" apparently should be the fairy godmother's wand. I never expected it to be, so am not disappointed when pumpkins and rats choose to remain themselves!


On a slightly different note, several things have popped in and out of my mind, leaving behind footprints of various intensities. A lingering one has been a feeling that people in my generation, more so in the following ones perhaps, are bored and unsatisfied. Whether that be with their lives or with their jobs. And yet, apparently, they have got it all. Relationships falling apart, jobs being quit and an ambient restlessness. And yet, it is my generation, more so the following ones, that has an increasing ability to get what it wants. Or is that the problem?


Does this latent knowledge make us the way we are? Does the fact that we can call it quits in a job this evening and land another soon enough actually make us quit? Does the fact that we can walk out of a relationship without any raised eyebrows (at least compared to what might have been the case a few years back) make us walk out with less of an emotional baggage? Or is it that we don't value what we have and are perenially looking for something better? The easier it is to let go, the more difficult it gets perhaps to hold on, even when holding on is the wiser option.


Bottomline is, I believe young people should be a happy and healthy lot. And when there is ample reason to be so, it's nothing but idiotic not to be so.