Aspirations
Ramu is boy studying in a typical Hindi medium government school in a small town in Uttar Pradesh. Kids of all strata were studying in the same school, being the only school in the town. His father being a school teacher commended a good respect in society though had very limited resources like any other lower middle income family.
Ramu and his friends used to discuss about their aspirations of becoming Engineer, Doctor and Charted Accountant, and few dreamed of becoming IAS officers. Ramu also had the aspiration of becoming Engineer. His parents always encouraged him to qualify for entrance test, as they also wanted to see him as an Engineer when he grows up. Internally both parents always discussed their plans to expand the earnings & savings to fund the future expenditures their son’s engineering education.
Ramu was excited when the results got declared and was juggling to get better branch in a good college and he finally settled for a good REC west. He passed out from the college and got a good job in a private company in UP and got married also. Later they shifted to Mumbai for career growth in a bigger organization at higher salaries. He was today thrilled as it was first day of school of his twin daughters. Soon his parents joined him after his father’s retirement in his newly purchased spacious flat in a good locality.
Life was looking good and he was able to instill the good values in his kids as he received during his childhood. His daughters were doing well in school and expressed their desire to go to US for higher studies. Ramu and his wife were bit concerned as they knew of about monetary requirements of higher studies in US. With the increased home loan EMI, higher expenditures of Metro and rising inflation had started pinching on his lifestyle. His savings also got looking thinner, which he was accumulating for her daughters.
On one fine day while he was sharing his quality time with his wife and talking about the future of their daughters, soon they started doing detailed planning to fund their daughters higher education, which definitely is going to have a impact on other expenditures they had earlier planned. He suddenly started remembering his good old days of his childhood. He went back into flash back mode and started re-visiting his own dreams while he was in school in that small town of UP. He recollected his dreams of studying in a good engineering college and the commitment of his parents to see him becoming good Engineer.
He realized that as the resources now are not sufficient enough for their daughters higher education, but still they are committed to do whatsoever they can do to fund it, the same was actually happened when he was about the get admission in engineering college and the days when his parents used to detailed planning to fund his education without making it known to him.
He was now wondering how the message of fulfilling kids aspirations gets communicated from one generation to another without uttering a single word. His wife was speechless having sparkle in her eyes and drops in corners of her eyes which she failed to hide.
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Ramu is boy studying in a typical Hindi medium government school in a small town in Uttar Pradesh. Kids of all strata were studying in the same school, being the only school in the town. His father being a school teacher commended a good respect in society though had very limited resources like any other lower middle income family.
Ramu and his friends used to discuss about their aspirations of becoming Engineer, Doctor and Charted Accountant, and few dreamed of becoming IAS officers. Ramu also had the aspiration of becoming Engineer. His parents always encouraged him to qualify for entrance test, as they also wanted to see him as an Engineer when he grows up. Internally both parents always discussed their plans to expand the earnings & savings to fund the future expenditures their son’s engineering education.
Ramu was excited when the results got declared and was juggling to get better branch in a good college and he finally settled for a good REC west. He passed out from the college and got a good job in a private company in UP and got married also. Later they shifted to Mumbai for career growth in a bigger organization at higher salaries. He was today thrilled as it was first day of school of his twin daughters. Soon his parents joined him after his father’s retirement in his newly purchased spacious flat in a good locality.
Life was looking good and he was able to instill the good values in his kids as he received during his childhood. His daughters were doing well in school and expressed their desire to go to US for higher studies. Ramu and his wife were bit concerned as they knew of about monetary requirements of higher studies in US. With the increased home loan EMI, higher expenditures of Metro and rising inflation had started pinching on his lifestyle. His savings also got looking thinner, which he was accumulating for her daughters.
On one fine day while he was sharing his quality time with his wife and talking about the future of their daughters, soon they started doing detailed planning to fund their daughters higher education, which definitely is going to have a impact on other expenditures they had earlier planned. He suddenly started remembering his good old days of his childhood. He went back into flash back mode and started re-visiting his own dreams while he was in school in that small town of UP. He recollected his dreams of studying in a good engineering college and the commitment of his parents to see him becoming good Engineer.
He realized that as the resources now are not sufficient enough for their daughters higher education, but still they are committed to do whatsoever they can do to fund it, the same was actually happened when he was about the get admission in engineering college and the days when his parents used to detailed planning to fund his education without making it known to him.
He was now wondering how the message of fulfilling kids aspirations gets communicated from one generation to another without uttering a single word. His wife was speechless having sparkle in her eyes and drops in corners of her eyes which she failed to hide.
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