I belong to a middle class family.
One of my cousin sister Ananya, is quite good in studies since her childhood, and this year she can easily get an IIT as she has performed very well in JEE advanced paper.
She is very very passionate about singing, so passionate that she always argue in family that why she should choose singing as career by leaving studies.
Few days back she shared me a post(below) from instagram with a question "Do you think my IIT or your NIT( I'm from NIT) can give us this even after 5-10 years of our job?
The caption of this post says that the girl in this pic has bought this BMW car by her own earnings.
Little background about the girl in this pic. She is Anuska Sen, a famous Indian television actress. She started her career as a child actor and has worked in many TV commercials, films and music albums. Now she is also the brand ambassador of some famous projects.
I was little awestruck by this and couldn't get what to respond.
But i replied.
Me: So? You want to leave IIT and pursue singing, right?
Ananya: You better know it.
Me: Well, do you have any idea, how many people fail who drop from studies and try to pursue their dream? More than 95% fail. Later they regret that they could have not taken such step.
Ananya: But what about those 5%? Some IITians might be working under those 5%. So if this risk gives such privilege, then it's worth taking risk.
Me: You are forgetting that we are middle class people, if this risk fail, you will be homeless, our parents have not kept so much wealth that we can easily survive even without working.
Ananya: I see. 😑
Ques: What are some ugly truth of life?
Ans: For a person who belongs to a middle class family, first he/she needs to clear a cutoff of life i.e getting a decent job first and then think of pursuing dreams. It's not that a middle class family is afraid of taking risks or don't want to take risks, but it's the responsibilities of feeding and taking care of their family first which make them avoid such risks.
(Image source: Instagram)