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about the competition for
securing a job in them. We would
rather joke about the meaning
and practicality of exams and
qualification tests than actually
prepare for them so that one day
we can be in a position to bring
about effective changes. We

would rather give in to peer
pressure and uninterestingly start
buying Dostoyevsky, Kafka and
Nietzsche than read something
In a bid to comprehend the
uplifting that helps us understand
the learning process. world's problems, we fail to
understand ourselves. It is often
said that many individuals live in
their own bubble - unaware of

their immediate surroundings.
Social activists want us to burst
the bubble and soak in all the
distractions, but I would say it is
not always too bad to stay in one.
It is high time we start to shape
our purpose and prioritize people
and tasks in order to achieve that
because no one else is going to do
that for us.

We are so obsessed with what our
peers think of us that we would
sacrifice our goals and happiness
in the blink of an eye. We try to
console ourselves by saying that it
is not our fault and the world is Abhijit Debnath
CSE
not meant for us, but it always is 2020-24
our fault in some way or the other,

isn’t it?

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