Innocent Victims

Next year, there will be thousands of students who would have completed out in the job market searching for a job to make a living and finally be independent. Today sitting at my desk when I look back at 2 years that has passed by , I can see and feel that so many changes have happened both inside me and also outside in the world.

This world looked such a secure place to be in – and now only feeling that all of us share is that of an unknown uncertainty which puts us back into a state of being insecure, insecure about the future ahead of us, insecure about our lives, insecure about people around us and almost everything looks towards us with a strange curious eyes, I don’t know what to answer them.

This feeling is perhaps in its peak for all the students from all forms of educational background who are going to complete their studies. Thinking of them makes me feel that perhaps I was lucky. I consider myself lucky because I did not have to face the uncertain period for too long, though I know that blissful period has ended or will soon end. But what has been amazing is that, the way the students who passed out this year handled the situation when they either got regret letters from companies where they were placed or joining date was postponed. It feels my heart with so much joy that here is a generation in front of us, who faces the situation better than us. According to me they were the worst hit candidates of recession.

Imagine that these are the young blood who have so many dreams and aspirations and people who were destined to be so happy about the way things so far had been and with a surety of a job in hand, where they would join and perhaps fulfill their dreams of achieving so many things in their field of work or interest. But destiny hits them so hard that they are at cross roads of their life with respect to their careers. So many would have been waiting for this day to help their families make a living and now for them the wait seems to have just become more longer. The markets, the corporate community, their families can never perhaps even comprehend the emotional turmoil that these young people went through during these times. So many dreams crushed under this recession for which they hardly had a role to play.

With my limited knowledge of finance only know that – student community is by far the most insulated one when it comes to the market and money pooled in it. May be this is just an assumption, but a majority of students are just there studying and learning things in order to make their dreams come true in future. But what is the final result of all this – The first axe and the hardest hit is on them?

I have personally seen so many students who are handling things so coolly, they have decided to look beyond the recession and are in a constant struggle for getting any job or may be getting admission into Higher education. They have decided in their minds – that they will fight it out and will not get bogged down by the situations around them. Their efforts at this stage might not bear any fruit, but their attitude tells a lot about the grit of their character and we all must learn from them. They are younger to us, but they do teach us all a lesson, A lesson that its all about your attitude in life and outlook towards a situation that will make all the difference in the end.
Recession might have hit the market, but it is not strong enough to break these young ones around us. I wish and hope that they get their due for the struggle and fight they have put in.