Main Veerapan Banna Chahti Hoon!!

It’s tough times for the world. Population is expanding and infrastructure is shrinking. There are so many people and everybody wants so much. There’s hunger and unemployment, and hell, I am growing up in exactly this sort of a time!! :O
As in, if I were born 30 years back when a B.A would have been a BIG thing and I‘d have got a good job easily with 60%, I’d have relaxed and looked forward to an easy, settled life. But, however, I’m not so lucky. So aren’t most of you likely to read this. I don’t know if I’m going to get a job three years down the line. If I don’t how would I support my poor husband and half a dozen kids, and how would I pay my credit card and mobile and internet and world tour vacation bills, and worse! What about my make-up kit and weekly pizzas?!?! So you see, I’m anxious and I’m worried because I want a job and there’s such a scarcity in the market for the regular-types jobs. That then led me to consider the alternative “hot jobs” of today.
The first I thought was the Call Centre…India Calling types. But…you know…I don’t think getting cursed from strangers in whatever languages is a nice idea. And then the whole world envies India so BPO jobs may soon decrease and there is so much growing competition anyway. After all everyone wants to talk with an accent!!
Then there’s politics. Everyday one has new parties and new leaders. Really comfortable with no real work required except some gibberish talk and yelling and some scheming. And you get to come on TV!! But, politics is so dirty and will use so much of my brain also. Plus everybody is criticizing you without doing anything, so if I do something ow would I survive. Too much muck and hard work for me!
That leaves only one job: I should become a terrorist! There’s a lot of FDI in this business all the time, and the govt. also puts no red tapes here. Promotion chances are great, and one gets exposed to the latest hi-tech gadgets and confidential information all the time. And it is the “hot seat” quite literally too. It even pays well, and maybe I could be a cross between Phoolan devi and Mona darling. Who knows, there’s so much glamour (and gun powder and action and coke and high contacts!!) So, isn’t the job profile of a terrorist exciting?
But, there’s only one problem. I don’t see the motivation and purpose behind the job any more. As in, there’s the money and there’s all the fun and adventure, but what is it that you actually work for? I wonder if even the veterans know.
Twenty years back, say after the Sikh riots of something, I could understand if someone said a terrorist was born because of the injustice by the govt. or whatever reasons. At the time of partition also, I could have understood if there was unrest due to some sense of injustice or want of “freedom” that was then misguided. Maybe it was even important to somehow attract the attention of the govt and sympathies of people and the world to some real issues that were ignored, even if the means to do so were wrong. But now? I mean a terrorist’s job has to be to “terrorise” right, and people were terrorized long ago by an attack in Kashmir or on WTC, but now, we’ve become immune and we realize the futility and pointlessness of the so-called ‘cause’ so much that we shopw only our anger in the ebst way possible: by showing it doesn’t affect us. You blast Mumbai, we work normally the next morning. How’s that for a mass slap on the face of those who want to scare or gain sympathy. Hell, you’re losing sympathy at all fronts. Earlier, hearts would melt at the religion factor. Today noses are scorned with abandonment at fanatics of Hinduism or Islam by the common man of either religion. Sorry no motivation any more anywhere…

And hence, I’m jobless.