IS WHO YOU KNOW MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOU KNOW?

He couldn't stop smiling. There was overflowing happiness.Two hours from now would be a very special moment for him.Avyakta was boarding a flight to Pune to take up the post of CEO of a reputed MNC there.

Now, five years later, sitting in the plush office of his consultancy firm, he says," When I reached there, there was no There !!"Apparently, the post about which Avyakta was so happy had been given to a highly influential, not to say, highly undeserving candidate who, as Avyakta later found out, was the brother-in-law of the company's directors.
He says,"You see, who you know is more important than what you know!"

The universe is wonky. Equilibrium is an illusion.It is predictably unbalanced.The majority has little impact.But a small,influential minority has a major and dominant impact.Only a few things really matter;most donot and among those that matter, connections count the most.

The mantra of Youngistan today is: SUCCESS......at little potential and a little extra cost and connections.
Everybody wants to succeed, most of them take the short cut, or shall we say, the wrong cut to do so.Why??The reasons are basic and interlinked !!

Competetion today is our second sibling. As a child is born, with him is born the spirit of competetion. Be it studies, extra-curricular activities or even bunking classes, there is competetion among us, within us and infact evrywhere around us ! In this competitive world, if you donot have a heavy pocket and a few people to recognize you for your niceties, you are colled a LOSER regardless of your capabilities and potential.

Man in this competetive world found succeeding increasingly difficult and even if he did succeed overcoming all odds, he was gloomy because he was not the first one to do so. As they say, Necessity is the mother of invention. Hence necessity implored Man to invent alternatives.......alternatives like 'connections', 'bribery'.

If you knew the right poeple, you reached where you wanted to reach and if you didnot, then you remained where you were!!

Obviously, using ones connections pejoratively provided a lucrative alternative to success attained through delirious struggle.Hence people started using it more and more.......See where this has landed us....in a world where the words 'deserving' and 'potential' are drowning in a sea of connections.

On the face of it, it all seems very convenient but have you ever thought, twenty years down the lane, what connections will you use to answer your conscience when your children suffer from the same disease that you once gave to others !

Look around you, look at your peers and above all, look at yourself. Ask yourself whether you deserve to be where you are today. If you get a YES for an answer, feel proud of yourself. But if you get a No, then make the decision right now.Do you want to be somebody or just anybody. If you want to be anybody, then merge with the crowd...get lost in the crowd. If you live like evrybody, you will be like evrybody !! And if you want to be somebody, then you will have to do what nobody has done . Dare to trudge upon a different path and make yourself count. You will certainly carve a destination for yourself......connections or no connections !!