<p><em>stalked</em> 
:D</p>
<p>Ms. Arunemo - I have fallen in love with your ideas. G</p>
<p>I am not perfect, but I am trying to be. Every time I am here on CC, I learn something new.</p>
<p>How to be humble from the guy who achieved the greatest feat.
How to be passionate from the girl who helps youth & kids.
How to be bold from the girl who organizes national competitions for thousands and lobbies the central government.
How to be anonymous from the guy who even after being attached emotionally with CC for so long.
How to win favor of people even after being criticized.</p>
<p>Epiphany.</p>
<p>I may not be a soon-to-be-NRI like some of you, but when I turn back and see these six months I see myself as a better and changed HUMAN. As the admission journey comes to an end, I like to wish you all a very best of luck for all your future endeavors. </p>
<p>Merci, CC for being such a great platform for hosting so wonderful people from all around the world (& India). </p>
<p>Je tâaime you guys for being so great & wonderful people and at the same time being so humble.</p>
<p>Also, if you find any faults in me, please correct with no hesitance. :0</p>
<p><em>skips back inside thread to see whatâs cooking</em></p>
<p>FunkyMo n ey, I can only laugh at you.
LOL. <em>Joins the club</em> (Barring âsort ofâ bfs) This reminds me of a hilarious occurence, but this place is too negative for a laugh.</p>
<p>PS- PD/ SR (wichever u prefer)- High five man</p>
<p><em>skips out again concluding sheâs lost respect for most people on this thread. The remaining know who they are.</em></p>
<p>Hi all after reading this long thread with so many different points of view i thought i had to give my judgement on it.
As for the thing about following your passions, arunemo i agree that one who follows the less trodden and less ambitions(according to some) path sacrificing his own needs over others is great. It takes a lot of courage to give up on your personal comforts and selflessly dedicate yourself to the service of the community. But i believe the community is secondary to oneâs family. To make my point clear i would like to elaborate on it a little further. Lets say we have this hypothetical youth worker just like your friend who loves his work and cares for nothing else and is fully devoted to social service. All goes well for few years, he or she marries happily, as time passes, they have a kid, he lives in whatever little he has but happily because he knows his father/mother is working for a great cause and even assists them. They soon have a second child, he is born intelligent and is good at studies and as he grows up he needs more money for his education, good high schools cost a lot, so do books and other accessories like computers etc. He doesnât complain because he knows his father/mother is a good man/women and doesnât want to hurt them so he accepts what he has tries to get best of what he has, he manages great grades in a not so great high school, tries his best but since some guy of equal intelligence had more resources, the other guy beats him almost every time. This frustrates him and in the end he ends up well but he knows he could end up better only if he had more money. If the youth worker had say a rich parent who left some decent financial resources he would still have done social service with equal passion and dedication but would have been able to cater to his family better. I know of many scientists who were really dedicated to science and spent their entire life in pursuit of science but their families suffered, i understand those times were different but still there likes of Nobel, the founder of nobel prize, who earned money and still catered to the society and their families responsibilities and i think they could cater better to the society, iâm not trying to compare or anything but still people who do social service with lot of money behind them have better results, yes you can go and give the needy love, affection, friendship etc but even what they want ultimately is some sort of monetary or tangible assets. It is not that only money is necessary or only we can go without money all together. We need both money and all the abstract nouns like love, friendship etc. It just we need to find the right balance for ourselves. For some it is more tilted towards the money side for some it tilted more towards the other side, but all need both. It is not the question whether one should earn more money or not it is what one thinks is best for them and their future and the future of those who they bring in this world.</p>
<p>I wanted to write more but that post was getting too long so i started another one.
In this i am writing what i think will work for me.
I think money gives us power, power to choose. If you have enough money(how much is enough is an altogether different topic) you can choose. You can choose between your career options, you can experiment because you know if something goes wrong you still have nothing to worry about. You love photography you can become a photographer, you love cooking you can become a chef, you love social service you can become a social worker. Erect a few orphanages, build new homes, brighten their lives all with the same passion as you would have done without money, also i think you would be happier because along with love you actually gave them something that would brighten their lives. So my opinion is earn some money then do what you want to do.
If not for yourself think for your children, they have a right to choose their own future and they should not have to say anytime in their lives, if only my father had a little more resources i could have been better off. My parents have done everything in their power to provide for me adequately. They could have gone of doing what they were really passionate about and leaving me to fend off for myself. So i only feel the need to return the favour by doing the same.
Of course i wont mind a Lamborghini or two myself or a private yacht, so my advise earn for say 20 years and for the next 30 or so years enjoy your passions.</p>
<p>^@NomadMIT:</p>
<p>Money does give the power to choose, but isnât that only on a temporary basis? Maybe we canât go to a college which doesnât give us financial aid, but wouldnât you say that, all said and done, empty pockets never hold anyone back? Too many people have risen from absolute poverty to great fame and fortune - please donât say these are exceptions. Exceptions mean only one or two. </p>
<p>I suppose itâs all perception.</p>
<p>share ur dec. scores ppl !!!</p>
<p>EDIT: OK. Iâll move this to TiT</p>
<p>Not here, on TiT #18v.2 or #19!</p>
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<p>nomad, this is an interesting point. </p>
<p>I do feel that indulging in community service should not come at the expense of children. However, it need not be either-or situation. I have seen many parents preoccupied with advancement of their career at the expense of their children. It is not just the money they need. Time they spend with children is more precious.</p>
<p>Did Gandhiâs children suffer? Did his children resent their upbringing? (I read somewhere that one of his sons hated him. I am not sure about this.)</p>
<p>Gandhi by no means was poor!!! He could send his children to any college they wished to go.
His time was diffrent his children would definitely have assisted in freedom struggle, that was more important at that time.
Moreover their mother was a housewife and devoted her time to them i suppose.</p>
<p>ahh here is an article about gandhiâs children it says they resented it.
[Trivia</a> on Famous Family History Mahatma Gandhi Children | Trivia Library](<a href=âhttp://www.trivia-library.com/b/famous-family-history-mahatma-gandhi-children.htm]Triviaâ>Famous Family History Mahatma Gandhi Children)</p>
<p>This is kind of unrelated but my grandfather was in the police service at the time and he saw Gandhiji at the railway station. He went up to him to ask for an autograph. Gandhiji was like âmujhe paanch rupaiye do, mein tumhe autograph de doongaâ </p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>That must be a gandhi lookalike.</p>
<p>No man. He had his entourage and all</p>