time to passout?

when i joined pec chandigarh
in 1989
for a 4 year degree course
i was amused to see
a few students in our college
who
as we came to know
had been there
since a decade or more!

they were more like
"uncles"
amidst us.

upon some investigation
we found
that these "not-so-young" students
were still there
not because they were
poor at studies
(though they might have been)
but because they didn't want to passout?

why?

because they all were
into politics

majority of them
were
either office bearers
of the student wings
of their patron political parties
or
their "cadre".

none of them wanted to
leave the plum posts rich with bucks and goodies.


all of them wanted to remain young forever
all of them wanted to remain students forever
because becoming grown up
would have rendered them ineligible
for "posts" meant for "growing ups"!

they were not bothered about "career" after studying
because they had got their "career" even while studying.

not surprisingly
they all remained there
even when we passed out
four years later.

i hope they are not their
still
after 18 years!!!

same thing happens in the market.

students join the "open school of stock market"
with an intention to passout
after learning.

but
to their own amusement
and to that of each others
they end up
like those "uncle" students
who never want to passout!

while learning never ends

there comes a time
when you learnt enough
to start making a living
and put learning
on back burner
and on auto-mode!

there comes a time
when you don't have substantially new things to learn!

that is the time you need to passout
and kiss goodbye to the school
and take up
"the job"

staying in the school
just to play to a gallery
or keep everyone in good humour

or settling for the "scholarship" instead of "fat paycheque"

proves costly!