for its sake :)

i think something is grossly wrong with the world...or atleast, most of the world. where we should have concentrated on preaching about love, and practising kindness to fellow beings, we have started preaching on the virtues of being jealous, and practise being arrogant like never before.

the other day, i went to church, knowing fully well that the reverend would subject me and fellow churchgoers to an hour of never ending boredom in the name of a sermon. i did not realise that he would read out an e-mail (one of those "forwards" that i always annihilate with a shift+delete action), and that he would use the points therein to paint a dirty picture of "techies" and MBAs and the likes.

i haven't understood the moot point that he was trying to make that day. he quoted a verse from the good book and strayed from it like the prodigal son from his father's house! apparently, the wise man that he is, he is irked by young people of this generation who are ambitious. and that brings me to the quintessential question -- what is the vice in being ambitious? is ambition by any means, a prelude to wickedness?

so the guy the reverend was speaking about, quit a job that paid him 12lakhs p.a. to look for something that would pay him 36 lakhs p.a. is that a crime? is that act worthy of the disdain and sarcasm that dripped copiously from the other's words? is the society aware of the lakhs that the young man spent, in getting a coveted MBA from some IIM? is he then not justified in making a good ROI? and even if he hadn't made an investement worth lakhs for his education, does he not have the right to aim for a better job, if he so desires? who gave me, or you, or a reverend, the right to speak of his aim as though it were a heinous deed?

really, i have heard this diatribe against "techies" (and other folks working in MNCs) so much and for so long that i wonder what we (the techies) did, to invite this wrath? is it that we spent 4 years studying a variety of subjects related to some branch of engineering? that we got jobs in MNCs that developed software? or is it a war against software itself?
i can't hire an autorickshaw without the driver giving me a discourse on how "my kind" brought the evils of traffic and potholed roads into bangalore...really! now that's a tall claim. i wonder if would have made as decent a living as he does now, if "my kind" had not existed. i also wonder if the reverend in my church would have run out of topics for the sunday sermon, if IT had not happened :)