We are the young generation of the 21st century, mostly working in corporate sectors with big fat pays. Yet most of us live through an unending story of incompleteness, restlessness, frustration and anxiety, health woes as well as family troubles. Or is there something more to be added to the list? I believe majority would respond in an affirmative to one or most of the above.

      I, for one, still remember the placement days when we used to be desperate for lucrative pays. But today, the same fat pay doesn’t give me the satisfaction that I used to crave for. And it is true for most of us. Unless we really understand the meaning of living, material achievements/accomplishments do not add any charm to it.

    The paradox of life is we are not what we are, but are what we were told to become. Starting from our parents and relatives to friends, teachers, peers, prophets and others—most of them have conditioned our mind to equate achievement in terms of material advancements.

     But have we really thought what we want from life? If not, I think it’s time to do so. Most of us currently exist in an ‘ego mode of consciousness’. Generally, the word ego may take several meanings; but what I mean by ego is ‘non acceptance of what is’. It is difficult for human beings to comprehend that everything in his life is pre-ordained. Nothing is under his/her control. The general mistake that people always make is that they wait for a beautiful life to start instead of enjoying life as it is. This happens basically because the human ego starts creating differences which then become a ‘collective mindset’ or what we may call a ‘collective ego sense’. Then the society is split into various ego groups which we may put in business jargon as SEC levels. Marketing does nothing but creating ego consciousness through associations.