Why life is so...

There are times when I have wondered that why life has been so unfair to me. It is not that I have not worked hard for it or simply whiled away my time. I have worked really hard but even then success seems to elude me. At times success seems like the rain in Delhi. When it’s raining cats and dogs in some places, it’s pretty much dry in other parts of the country thirsting for every single drop of water (these days I have become so desperate for rain that I couldn’t think of a better comparison). Why is it like that with human lives, too? I have noticed at times (or it seems) that some people get things without much labour for which another person would have to slog like anything, be it getting through an entrance or an admission in an institution or a job or anything else. And there are times when you realize that the most undeserving people or the ones who least want it, get it. You must have heard some say, when you would ask them, “how did you get/do it?” and they would reply, “I just gave the exam coz my dad wanted me to (meaning that s/he never wanted it, it was simply forced on s/he)”, “I just don’t know how it happened, I had not even prepared for the exam, I had not even answered the whole paper still I cleared it. Even am surprised”, “It was luck I guess”, etc. Answers like these foxes me as I wonder why the hell I burned my night oil, night after night and still not get it or what went wrong or the effort that I had put in was probably not good enough.

Maybe success comes hard for some.

Better luck next time. After all what’s the fun in getting things without a good fight.