The document discusses how many students in India do not pursue their own dreams, but rather chase their parents' dreams or the dreams of others due to societal and parental pressure starting in 9th grade. It notes that the general mentality in India is that the only good career paths are business, doctor, engineer, or non-engineer. However, the document argues that allowing students to pursue their own passions and dreams is important for their happiness and the country's development, rather than forcing them into fields like engineering just for the sake of a career. It concludes by encouraging people to dream their own dreams instead of following others.

1. Your own dream!!
You have to dream before your dreams can come true. Now one may think why I start with a
quote of our long forgotten beloved president Abdul Kalam that is because I feel no bureaucrat
has inspired millions of children and youngsters like him, he is the lone good man amongst the
bad and ugly. Naturally in our country only people as clean as Andimuthu raja can be given a
second run. Ok let me come out of politics as it is not what I am gonna ponder upon this time. I
am tired of being an angry, confused young man (no not because of our classes till 7 PM).
Christopher Nolan’s dream of implanting a dream in one’s mind was a great sci- fi and the whole
world praised his imagination but I accuse him of copying it from our country.
Nolan’s inception is already a reality at least in this part of the
world, how many students and youngsters have their own dream, they chase their parents dreams
or sometimes even worse the dream of others. Dreams are crushed as soon as kids reach ninth
grade, there starts the mental pressure. Parents and the society determine ,what the best
profession for them is and the dream is imparted in their brains.
The general Indian mentality has become that unless you’re from a business
background or a doctor there are only two kinds of students, engineers and non engineers. Every
Tom, Dick and Harry in our country is an engineer. After an in-depth research done using the
insights we have gained from the two RM Papers, involving various dependent, independent,
stupid, unforeseen, un called for and I don’t know what variables I have proposed the hypothesis
that 15.54 % love engineering and so proceed to study it. Another 9.46 % get forced in to it by
parents. 50 % people still have no clue why they joined engineering (this includes people like
me), may be because they know no other course. This is where inception plays a big role; they
have been infested with some grave idea that engineering is something great, only engineers
know that the chief value in doing engineering is that it’s the only way to learn it really doesn’t
matter. The remaining are the interesting mixed lot including people who want a B.E to marry
their girl or to get married to an IT professional settled in U.S and on and on.
Man, there are 450 engineering colleges in Tamilnadu alone, I am
dreading that there may come a day when an ECE engineer will repair cell phones and other
gadgets but it ll come so soon as they are already as clerks, cashiers, good homemakers (men

2. and women) etc. I had a chance to speak with an American teacher, who had come to my school,
during our conversation I asked him why history? He calmly said, “history is my passion and I
took it up”. Asked at any point of time what our guys say is that some course had some god
forsaken scope and they took it. IT has killed number of musicians, poets, lyricists, speakers,
teachers, core science people who else would have been happy when they reached their own
dream.
But this is not gonna long last , nature has its own balancing acts, when the demand
supply equilibrium is upset then we d know the value of agriculture or any blue color job. But
waiting till that time is absurd we should nt behave like a nation of million people , we should
behave like a nation of billion people , so lets dream, dream and dream!!!
- Arul Vignesh.S