Future Musing

This age is when decisions are made that affect the whole life... Right now I and all my peers are making decisions and choosing paths...

I wonder sometimes, what my life will come to.

Twenty years from now, where will I be? And where will my peers be? Will my life have been successful? Will I be looking back twenty years from now, and be extremely happy with the path that I took at this time? Will I have attained what I want to?
Or will I be ruing it, surrounded by success stories of my peers? My mom told me stories of IITians of her batch. Of some she said, "He got through IIT at that time (in the 70s). But look at his life now. He did nothing special." What category would I belong to?

In my batch there have been so many talented people, and all have chosen different paths. Some took a job, some went for a PhD, some for a masters and then a job in the US, some would like to be professors, some went into consulting and some went for MBA.

Everyone is trying at this moment to set the direction of his life. Roughly twenty years from now, we would have a class reunion at IITB. At that time, it will be clear, who all succeeded, who all are happy with how their life has turned out, and who all belong to the category my mom talked about.

Only time will tell.

Twenty years from now, if this post remains, I will come back and look at it -- either with eyes aglow or eyes downcast, reminiscing about a life wasted.