Indians and Optimism
Indians are the most optimistic people you would ever come across.We are taught to be illogically optimistic right from our
childhood and we even outgrow that as the number of candles on our cake increases.A mom tells her 3yr old kid stories of
how he'll grow up and rule the country as she makes some dinner in her makeshift hut from whatever little she could forage
all day.Optimist.A child prays that his test on the next day be postponed because he has not prepared well.Optimist.You
assume that there won't be a traffic jam today when you drive to the office.An Optimist again.A group of people sit down to
discuss about the new government and hope that the new government brings in some real good reforms and they'll do you
good.A bunch of Optimists.Someone in some distant town has gone to the nearby temple to pray that it may not rain on the final day of the test match because India is in a winning position.Optimist.An old man hopes that his alone sugar levels will hit normal and he will get to eat his favourite sweetmeat.An Optimist and veteren at it.The list goes on,well you may ask what is wrong in optimism?Well nothing,but for optimism we would all be living in a
cynical,depressing world.Some may even argue that it has got this placebo effect on our lives,because but for it the old
man in the tests lab might not find enough reasons to live n cheer about nor the mother in the hut.But what could be morally and mentally damaging could be the being optimistic and doing nothing about it,like the kid
praying that the exam be postponed,the prayer per se is harmless but what would damage would be the fact that he will grow
up to be an adult who wants something and does nothing about it,just hopes or prays.You want to crack that management
entrance every year,but you just hope that the project that you get at the end of the year would be pretty easy and you can
do away without slogging more than 9.5hrs a day.This is a dangerous corollary of the optimism theory,that leaves everything
on your disaster management skills,which are good but might not save something as important and improbable as your career.This is how we operate.No,am not drawing parallels with our financially better off counterparts but a bit of logic mixed with this can take us a long way.
childhood and we even outgrow that as the number of candles on our cake increases.A mom tells her 3yr old kid stories of
how he'll grow up and rule the country as she makes some dinner in her makeshift hut from whatever little she could forage
all day.Optimist.A child prays that his test on the next day be postponed because he has not prepared well.Optimist.You
assume that there won't be a traffic jam today when you drive to the office.An Optimist again.A group of people sit down to
discuss about the new government and hope that the new government brings in some real good reforms and they'll do you
good.A bunch of Optimists.Someone in some distant town has gone to the nearby temple to pray that it may not rain on the final day of the test match because India is in a winning position.Optimist.An old man hopes that his alone sugar levels will hit normal and he will get to eat his favourite sweetmeat.An Optimist and veteren at it.The list goes on,well you may ask what is wrong in optimism?Well nothing,but for optimism we would all be living in a
cynical,depressing world.Some may even argue that it has got this placebo effect on our lives,because but for it the old
man in the tests lab might not find enough reasons to live n cheer about nor the mother in the hut.But what could be morally and mentally damaging could be the being optimistic and doing nothing about it,like the kid
praying that the exam be postponed,the prayer per se is harmless but what would damage would be the fact that he will grow
up to be an adult who wants something and does nothing about it,just hopes or prays.You want to crack that management
entrance every year,but you just hope that the project that you get at the end of the year would be pretty easy and you can
do away without slogging more than 9.5hrs a day.This is a dangerous corollary of the optimism theory,that leaves everything
on your disaster management skills,which are good but might not save something as important and improbable as your career.This is how we operate.No,am not drawing parallels with our financially better off counterparts but a bit of logic mixed with this can take us a long way.
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