The successful Life

You come into this world naked.At the last you are at least entitled to a piece of cloth.You come for free,to exit you need to shell out.Isnt this enough success?

Anyways even after so many years the concept of a "successful life" prevailing in our contemporary society is still a queer one.Its still determined by a series of milestones you have to achieve to get entitled to a successful life.

You come into this world,enter a school and do your schooling,get graduated, even excel in your masters; no my boy you still have not not achieved any success yet.Yes you get a 4.8 lakh per annum package your success rate jumps to 20%.Good,you have opened your books now.

Now comes the next stage.You have to get married.You have a fiance,good.No?
An arranged marriage?Still better.Along with the bride you get a Lcd tv,a fridge,microwave,an almirah,a double bed with Kurl-o-pilo mattress( guranteed to keep your spine straight till you die) .If you are really lucky, you may win yourself a Tata Nano too!

If you are a girl then your life should revolve around the following sentence:

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife " - Pride and Prejudice.

Now your meter has run upto 50% success rate.

Now that you have secured both a job and a partner, your success meter is at a great tempo and the following things should add to your points.
A Honda city, a flat in a complex with swimming pool, a community hall, children's park, cctv surveillance and guaranteed unpolluted air as there is supposed to be 40% open space with greenery inside the boundary.

A membership to a state of the art equipped 5 star club where you get to socialize [Calcutta Club is out of bounds boy, you need more than money to get in there], a retirememt bond that pays you pension till you die.
Things like this should add another 20% nto your success rate making it go upto 70%.

Next another vital stage. You are a healthy breeding male/female and by the act of the marriage bond you are bound to mate and have lovely babies. You feed them,clothe them,educate them and may be even help them till the way to get settled and married.

Good job.
Success rate reaches 85%.
Add another 5% if your son/daughter manages to settle in the States and get you into an caring old age home which takes you to a field trip once in 6 months.
Success rate is a staggering 90%.


Now comes the time for you to leave. Your last days are spent in reading the Gita,works of Ramkrishna and chanting " Hari naam ". You die peacefully, maybe in a private nursing home with a 50k bill tailing you.
Your loving ones pack you off to get fried in a nice decorated hearse and throw a great “sradhdha” (post death celebrations) in your memory. Take the remaining 10%.

You now have become " a not so bad " successful man to have lived on the face of the earth. All is achieved and you rest in peace.100% achieved.

Phew!Quite a long process if you aske me.


Sounds tempting isn’t it?



'Ekdin matir bhitor e hobe ghor,
O mon amar,
Keno bandho dalan ghar'

[ One day your home will be inside the earth,
Then my heart,
Why do you build bunglows]


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