Why is life always up the Slope? by K Eswaran
When we were in school , we felt that once the board exams are over, life is going to be great in college. No more worries about studies or the botheration by the parents and we would get a lot of freedom and friends. But when you join the college, you have some added responsibilities. There is no spoon feeding anymore. You got to pull up your own self. Life becomes hard. Sometimes you feel, ‘ oh school was so cool’ , and so on. Later, when you join the Academy, NDA /IMA/ OTA, you jump term to term with the hope that things will improve. Yes, the old issue ceases, but new ones crop up. You think that once Academy days are over and you get commissioned, it would be all rosy and a cakewalk. You can have a BALL. You are wrong again!! You land up in a unit where you are the junior most. You have got to do all the running around. It would appear that the whole unit is running only because of you. You suddenly react ‘ oh my God, the Academy days were so much ...